Abstract: Water contaminated with oil is separated within a closed container into an oil layer and a water layer containing a residue of oil, because of the difference in the specific gravities of water and oil. A suction pump sucks the separated oil from the container to reduce the pressure of the liquid in the container, thereby lowering the concentration of oil residue in the separated water.
Abstract: Colored anodic coating of aluminum and its alloys can be obtained by immersing the aluminum or its alloys as an anode in an aqueous electrolyte solution containing aromatic sulfonic acid and at least one of formic acid and formate salts, which solution preferably contains at least one of sulfuric acid and water soluble sulfate or bisulfate salts and by passing electric current through the electrolyte solution for a predetermined time.