Efficacy of a polymeric medium to absorb hydrocarbons from wastewaters in a storm water drainage system

向加拿大环境排放有害污染物可能对水生和陆地生态系统产生长期有害影响。减少化学品向受纳沃茨的排放是加拿大所有行业的责任。ACO公司一直在制造沟渠排水管理系统，用于工业废水的去除，并有兴趣开发一种新的方法来处理废水的基础上使用一个“枕型”的管道末端过滤系统之前，排放到接收环境。在这项合作研究中，ACO公司和马尼托巴大学石油和天然气研究与开发中心将在实验室模拟废水流经沟渠系统，以测试拟议的聚合物材料吸收碳氢化合物的能力。使用我们的缩小规模的方法，我们将能够了解在不同的水流量和潜在的干扰化学品的存在下，碳氢化合物的吸收。这项研究的好处和研究的预期结果是，它将使ACO公司能够销售一种产品，减轻工业化合物意外排放到加拿大水生环境中。

Discharge of harmful contaminants into the Canadian environment can have long-term deleterious impacts on the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem. Mitigating the release of chemicals to receiving waters is a responsibility of all industries in Canada. ACO Corporation has been manufacturing trench drainage management systems that are used in industry to remove wastewater and is interested in developing a new approach to treating wastewater based on using a 'pillow-type' end-of-the-pipe filtration system prior to discharge into the receiving environment. In this collaborative study, ACO Corporation and the Centre for Oil and Gas Research and Development at the University of Manitoba will simulate wastewater flows through a trench system in the laboratory to test the efficacy of the absorption capacity of a proposed polymeric material to retain hydrocarbons. Using our scale-down approach, we will be able to understand absorption of hydrocarbons at different water flow rates and in the presence of potentially interfering chemicals. The benefit of this research and the expected outcome of the study is that it will enable ACO Corporation to market a product that mitigates the accidentally discharged of industrial compounds into the Canadian aquatic environment.