Treatment Strategies for Reducing Oil Contaminants in Wastewater

Abstract

The more humans need to develop, the more waste will be generated from by-products of an industry's operational processes. One of the most waste in produce, namely wastewater contaminated by oil. Oil waste not only pollutes aquatic ecosystems but the impact of waste oil itself can be very dangerous for human health. Therefore, it is necessary to process wastewater contaminated with this oil. On the one hand, the development of innovation also makes the methods of processing contaminated waste more varied. Therefore, there is a need for a study to determine which wastewater treatment processes are effective, especially for wastewater that contains oil. The research methodology of this journal itself uses a qualitative method with a literature review approach. So that the results obtained from the comparison of the efficiency of several processing methods such as membrane technology, electrocoagulation, adsorption, and combination. The technology at an affordable cost for simple cases can utilize microbial bioremediation techniques, but this will take a long time. Meanwhile, to obtain good results and affordable costs, the adsorption method is the right choice. But even so, it still needs to be reworked related to the efficiency beside the cost of each processing method.