Car service stations, restaurants, machine
maintenance, oil mills, food- processing factories are the main sources of oil
and grease in wastewater. In addition, oil tanker accidents, explosions, sea pipelines, oil drilling operation and oil explorations and productions are the principal causes of oil in marine areas.
The failure of some of the
conventional wastewater treatment plants is mainly because of the presence of
excess oil and grease. Oil pollution has harmful effects on sea life, economy,
tourism, wastewater treatment plants and human activities because of its
coating properties. Common methods are used for the removal of oil spill from
marine areas such as booms, chemical, mechanical and biological. The disadvantages of some of
these methods are their inefficient, high cost and low rate of removal and
recovery of oil from sea water. Read more>>>>>>>>>>>>
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