IMPROVED PROCESS FOR SEPARATING COMPOUNDS PRESENT IN AQUEOUS PHASE CONTINUOUS OF AN EFFLUENT TO BE PROCESSED, IN PARTICULAR PETROCHEMICAL BY PHASE INVERSION.

摘要

The invention relates to a method for separating compounds present in a continuous aqueous phase of an effluent to be treated, comprising the steps of: - forming from the effluent to be treated, an organic drop emulsion (13) including the compounds to be separated (10) in the aqueous phase, - introduction of the emulsion in the form of globules (11), - separation of the organic drops (13) from the globules (11), - recovery of the globules (11) having coalesced in bottom of column (3), according to the invention, the separation process comprising the preliminary steps of control: - from the size of the organic drops (13) of the emulsion (8) to a set value (dmin), - of the size of the emulsion globules (11) at an optimum value (D3,2). The invention also relates to the phase-reversal separator employing this process and the uses of this process in the fields of petrochemistry and hydrometallurgy.