Sustainable Treatment of Crude Oil-in-Saline Water Emulsion with Licuri ( Syagrus coronata ) Leaf Fiber

Pedro Victor Bomfim Bahia, Guilherme Augusto Ferreira, Artur José Santos Mascarenhas, Fabiana da Silva Castro, Roger Thomas François Fréty and Rosangela Regia Lima Vidal ()
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Pedro Victor Bomfim Bahia: Departamento de Físico-Química, Instituto de Química, Campus Universitário de Ondina, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador 40170-115, Bahia, Brazil
Guilherme Augusto Ferreira: Departamento de Físico-Química, Instituto de Química, Campus Universitário de Ondina, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador 40170-115, Bahia, Brazil
Artur José Santos Mascarenhas: Laboratório de Catálise e Materiais (Labcat), Departamento de Química Geral e Inorgânica, Instituto de Química, Campus Universitário de Ondina, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador 40170-115, Bahia, Brazil
Fabiana da Silva Castro: Laboratório de Catálise e Materiais (Labcat), Departamento de Química Geral e Inorgânica, Instituto de Química, Campus Universitário de Ondina, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador 40170-115, Bahia, Brazil
Roger Thomas François Fréty: Laboratório de Refino e Tecnologias Limpas (LabRefino/Lateclim), Departamento de Engenharia Química, Instituto de Petróleo e de Pesquisas Energéticas (LITPEG), Universidade Federal do Pernambuco, Recife 50740-540, Pernambuco, Brazil
Rosangela Regia Lima Vidal: Departamento de Físico-Química, Instituto de Química, Campus Universitário de Ondina, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador 40170-115, Bahia, Brazil

Sustainability, 2025, vol. 17, issue 16, 1-21

Abstract: Due to the toxicity of produced water, which is characterized as crude oil-in-water emulsions, strategies are required to decrease its potential hazard before its disposal into the environment. This work employs a raw biosorbent, licuri leaf fiber (LLF), to enable the discharge of produced water emulsions into the sea, following a reduction in oil concentration by sorption to levels below current regulatory limits. LLF with a BET area of 0.07 m 2 g −1 was characterized by SEM/EDS, FTIR, and TGA before and after crude oil sorption. The results obtained from batch experiments showed that the sorption capacity increased when oil concentration in the emulsion varied from 20 to 100 mg L −1 and decreased when temperature increased from 300 to 320 K. The pseudo-second-order kinetic model fitted the experimental data for the emulsions with higher oil concentration. The Freundlich model gave the best fit for the sorption isotherm data. The thermodynamic parameters indicated that oil sorption is exothermic, spontaneous, and less random, controlled by physisorption. At 300 K, raw LLF can remove crude oil from emulsions with an oil concentration less than or equal to 100 mg L −1 below the current environmental standards.

Keywords: light crude oil; emulsion; licuri leaf fiber; sorption; wastewater treatment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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