[Assessment of schemes for sewage purification from petroleum products, by using various flotation methods]

Petroleum products are the most common pollutants in petroleum refinery wastewater and are freed from the latter by flotation that is one of the most frequently applied physicochemical methods. The existing petroleum refinery OAO "Angara Petroleum Company" scheme for sewage purification from petroleum products, by using pressure flotation and proposed as a competitive purification scheme by applying electrical and impeller flotations underwent a comparative ecologoeconomic analysis. The use of electrical flotation instead of pressure flotation and that of an impeller flotation-electrical flotation system instead of a mechanical purification-pressure flotation one can considerably lower the concentration of petroleum products at the wastewater outlet into the Angara river.