Significant waste resources are generated in the form of water-oil emulsions. These emulsions cannot be effectively destroyed on an industrial scale by traditional methods that rely on the settling of the aqueous phase

and therefore

they accumulate in large quantities. Thermomechanical dehydration

based on the evaporation of the water phase

presents a promising process for recycling such waste. However

within the framework of thermomechanical dehydration

the issue of optimizing energy costs for heating raw materials and controlling the water content in the product arises. Standard methods of determining water content under the boiling conditions of highly stable water-hydrocarbon emulsions are characterized by low efficiency

as they require constant sampling and the involvement of additional equipment and personnel. Consequently

this presents a challenge in predicting and creating an automated thermomechanical dehydration process. Therefore

dynamic curves depicting changes in the water content of these emulsions

depending on the temperature of the boiling liquid

have been obtained. It is proposed to determine the rate of temperature increase (d

T

/d

t

) of the boiling emulsion for continuous

real-time monitoring of the residual water content and for recording the moment of complete dehydration. Achieving a boiling emulsion temperature of 130-170 ℃ (or higher) and/or the rate of temperature increase from 3.0 to 5.5 (or above) indicates the

complete dehydration of the emulsion. The proposed method can be implemented in any industrial or laboratory-scale unit for thermomechanical dehydration without significant capital costs. It is based on the use of simple devices consisting of temperature sensors and a computing unit for determining the temperature and rate of heating.