Remoção do íon amônio de águas produzidas na exploração de petróleo em áreas offshore por adsorção em clinoptilolita

• Autor(a) principal: Lima,Rosilda Maria Gomes de
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: Wildhagen,Glória Regina da Silva, Cunha,José Waldemar Silva Dias da, Afonso,Julio Carlos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Química Nova (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-40422008000500054
• topic: ammonium ion; produced water; clinoptilolite

This work describes the use of clinoptilolite for removal of ammonium ions present in waters produced at the Campos' Basin. Samples were previously treated in order to remove organic compounds and metals. Experiments were run in fixed- and fluidized-bed systems, at room temperature. The fluidized-bed systems did not remove efficiently the ammonium ion. The best operational conditions were obtained with clinoptilolite particle size in the range 0.30-0.50 mm, under ascendant flow (3 mL min-1), in a fixed-bed system. The best zeolite performance was found when it was pretreated with 0.5 mol L-1 NaOH. Na+ was the most important interfering ion due to its high concentration in the water. Clinoptilolite lost partially its capacity to retain ammonium ions after several regeneration cycles with NaOH.