Treatment of oily water containing different salts using surfactants
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The oil drilling operations large quantities of contaminted water known as "produced water" . The present study aims to treatment of produced water of the North Rumaila and Zubair oil fields,using stainless steel autoclave. A series of experiments were carried out at different conditions,temperature, pressure, acidity, revolution per minute (RPM) and salinity with and without flocculation.The result showed that 93% of oil was removed. An improvement was conducted when usingsurfactants.