DESTRUCTION OF OIL HYDROCARBONS IN WATER SOLUTIONS WITH OXYGEN DIELECTRIC BARRIER DISCHARGE OF ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE

Abstract

This paper reports the experimental study of destruction kinetics of oil hydrocarbons (engine oil of the M8 trademark) dissolved in water by dielectric barrier discharge in oxygen at the atmospheric pressure. The range of initial concentrations of oil in the aqueous solution was (12- 91) mg/l. All experiments were carried out under the applied voltage of 7.9 kV and discharge current of 0.45 mA (rms values) with a frequency of 50 Hz. The inputted power was 0.35 W/cm3.  The gas flow rate was 1 l/min. It was shown that the kinetics of oil decomposition can be formally described by the pseudo-first order law on oil concentration. The effective rate constant for decomposition of petroleum products was 0.0016 s-1. The rate of destruction in the investigated concentration range of M8 was varied in the range (3.8 - 28.9) · 10-6 mol / (l·min). The oil decomposition degree achieved 80 %, and the decomposition energetic yield was 0.16 molecules per 100 eV of inputted energy. The kinetics of the formation of ozone and carbon dioxide was examined as well. The obtained experimental data allowed to determine the degree of completeness of oil oxidation, which at the maximum was 54% (for carbon dioxide), this results indicates the formation of other carbon-containing compounds. The dynamics of the change in the pH of the treated solution is revealed. Under the experimental conditions, the pH was reduced from 6 to 4. It was found that the concentration of ozone formed in the reactor was deficiency for oil oxidative degradation. This results confirms that in the system are formed other active particles involved in the destruction of petroleum products, such as the OH* radicals and atomic oxygen. The possible mechanism of degradation processes is discussed.Forcitation:Grinevich V.I., Rybkin V.V., Lyubimov V.A., Gushchin A.A. Destruction of oil hydrocarbons in water solutions with oxygen dielectric barrier discharge of atmospheric pressure. Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn. Zaved. Khim. Khim. Tekhnol. 2017. V. 60. N 8. P. 20-27.