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。减少向接收水排放化学品是加拿大所有行业的责任。ACO公司一直在制造用于工业中去除废水的沟渠排水管理系统，并有兴趣开发一种新的废水处理方法，该方法基于在排放到接收环境之前使用“枕头式”管端过滤系统。在这项合作研究中，ACO公司和马尼托巴大学的石油和天然气研究与开发中心将在实验室模拟废水通过沟渠系统的流动，以测试拟议的聚合物材料吸收碳氢化合物的能力的有效性。使用我们的按比例缩小的方法，我们将能够了解碳氢化合物在不同水流速度和潜在干扰化学品存在的情况下的吸收情况。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，减少工业化合物意外排放到加拿大水环境中。

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.