Oil spill cleanup by atmospheric distillation

Abstract

Oil spills impose major environmental challenges by leakage of oil in its surrounding areas. In this study, the collected oil spill from water surface was sent to the distillation column for fractionation processing. It was observed that the distillation column converts the oil spill to a useful form of petroleum products; however, energy consumption of the distillation column increases. In addition, increasing the oil spill flow rate to the distillation column increases its influence on energy consumption and flow rates of products, so the optimal rate of oil spill injection is computed.