Research of wastewater treatment with used tires shreds

Abstract

One of the biggest wastewater pollutants are petroleum products. The petroleum products are very dangerous pollutants in the environment. There are a lot of different ways of treating waste water from oil products. There are a lot of research done with different origin and structure sorbents are being used for effluent treatment. Producing adsorbents from secondary raw materials (used tires) is reducing the amount of waste and also protecting nature of dangerous materials. During cleaning of waste water the main side oil components are being absorbed. The processes are based on adsorption method, in which a liquid phase of a substance is accumulated on particulate material surface. The study evaluated three different sizes of tyres particles. (0.63–1.00mm; 1.00–1.5 mm and 1.5–3.00 mm). The fractions of 1.00–1.5 mm and 1.5–3.00 mm have shown the better cleaning effectiveness. The effectiveness was 94,6 % of wastewater cleaning with used tired shreds.