Surfactant Enhanced Olive Oil Mill Wastewater Remediation

This investigation focus on the application of surfactant enhanced aquifer remediation (SEAR) technology using modified surfactant to improve the remediation of olive oil mill wastewater (OOMW), a new kind of surfactant was used which is a new extended surfactants sodium polypropylene oxides sulphate of the type (branched hydrocarbon chain)- (propoxyle group)-(sulphate). A modelled three dimensional phase diagram using phenol as a model compound for the phenolic compounds in the OOMW was determined and the amounts of the surfactant needed to extract the phenol can be determined using the three-dimensional phase behaviour of the phenol, water and the proposed surfactant. 1H-NMR and direct photometric method was used for the detection of the efficiency of the surfactant in the remediation of OOMW.