Abstract
The paper presents the experimental laboratory equipment developed by the authors, which makes it possible to apply a pulsed electric discharge using the electrohydraulic effect. This experimental equipment can be used for wastewater treatment of thermal power plants, oil refineries and other polluting industrial enterprises. In this paper we are taking a look the environmental phenomena from the action of the developed equipment with the example of water contaminated with phenols and oil products, the purification of which is due to the destruction of molecular and ionic bonds by free electrons and ions which appear during discharge. The test results are shown in tables: the dependence of the oxidation process of petroleum products and phenol on the time of wastewater treatment by a pulsed electric discharge and the dependence of the oxidation process of oil products and phenol on the time of solution treatment.