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Investigation of Effective Treatment Techniques for Olive Mill Wastewater

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

Selection of cost-effective treatment modules for high saline wastewater produced from the olive mill is a challenging task. The aim of this study is to select the most effective technology applied to treat Olive mill wastewater. Several trials using various techniques were carried out to treat wastewater produced from pickling olives and olive oil manufacturing; for instance, anaerobic-aerobic, coagulation/flocculation, and electrocoagulation. The characteristics of olive manufacturing raw wastewater in terms of total dissolved solids (TDS), chemical oxygen demand (COD) and oil and grease were 10032, 9174, and 914.8 mg/l respectively. The results showed that electro-coagulation technique with aluminum electrodes and operating parameters of 30 voltage and 1.5 hours achieved COD removal rate 84%. However, the residual concentration (900 mgO2/l) still needs further treatment. Aerobic treatment using activated sludge was applied after electrocoagulation. The results showed that the use aerobic treatment after electrocoagulation is more efficient than the use of anaerobic. Analysis of the treated water showed that the maximum COD removal efficiencies were 98% at optimum conditions. The effluent quality meets the discharge regulatory standard. Consequently, the electrocoagulation followed by aerobic process can be considered as a reliable, safe and cost-effective method for the treatment of olive mill wastewater.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2018.2655.1224

Keywords

Olive mill, Coagulation, electro coagulation, anaerobic, Aerobic

Authors

First Name

Enas

Last Name

Aboutaleb

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Affiliation

Water Pollution Research Department, National Research Centre, , 33 Behooth St., P.O. Box 12622, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

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enas_aboutaleb@hotmail.com

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Orcid

0000-0002-5755-6275

First Name

Gamal

Last Name

Kamel

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-

Affiliation

Water Pollution Research Department, National Research Centre, , 33 Behooth St., P.O. Box 12622, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Email

gamal_kamel9@yahoo.com

City

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Orcid

0000-0001-9558-4288

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Hellal

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Water Pollution Research Department, National Research Centre, , 33 Behooth St., P.O. Box 12622, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

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mohammed_saadh@yahoo.com

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Orcid

0000-0003-1887-6951

Volume

61

Article Issue

3

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1396

Issue Date

2018-06-01

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2018-01-28

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2018-06-01

Page Start

415

Page End

422

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_7316.html

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297

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Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Investigation of Effective Treatment Techniques for Olive Mill Wastewater

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22 Jan 2023