Research article

REMOVAL OF PHENOL CONTAMINANTS FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTION USING EMULSION LIQUID MEMBRANE

Tamara. L. Rasool ᵃ, Ahmed A. Mohammed ᵇ

Online First: May 10, 2023


The current paper focuses on assessing key parameters affecting the extraction of phenol as well as emulsion stability using the emulsion liquid membrane technology. parameters affecting the extraction have been studied: stripping phase concentration, Effect of Feed Phase pH, Effect of Feed Concentration taking into consideration the emulsion breaking. Experiments proved that using the resulting optimum values will maximize both extraction and stripping efficiencies (92% and 87% respectively), while minimizing the emulsion breakage (increasing the stability of emulsion) to 0.921% with no need to employ a carrier agent. A 4% (v/v) Span 80 as a surfactant, 5800 rpm homogenizer speed, 0.1M NaOH as an internal phase concentration, and 5 min emulsification time are chosen to be the optimum parameters' values. A study of extraction kinetics of this work can be extended to the removal of other types of from water.

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