Oil spill cleanup from sea water by sorbent materials

Ahmad Bayat; Seyed Foad Aghamiri; Ahmad Moheb; G. Reza Vakili-Nezhaad

doi:10.1002/ceat.200407083

Oil spill cleanup from sea water by sorbent materials

Ahmad Bayat^*, Seyed Foad Aghamiri, Ahmad Moheb, G. Reza Vakili-Nezhaad

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Three sorbents were compared in order to determine their potential for oil spill cleanup. Polypropylene nonwoven web, rice hull, and bagasse with two different particle sizes were evaluated in terms of oil sorption capacities and oil recovery efficiencies. Polypropylene can sorb almost 7 to 9 times its weight from different oils. Bagasse, 18 to 45 mesh size, follows polypropylene as the second sorbent in oil spill cleanup. Bagasse, 14 to 18 mesh size, and rice hull have comparable oil sorption capacities, which are lower than those of the two former sorbents. It was found that oil viscosity plays an important role in oil sorption by sorbents. All adsorbents used in this work could remove the oil from the surface of the water preferentially.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1525-1528
Number of pages	4
Journal	Chemical Engineering and Technology
Volume	28
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/ceat.200407083
Publication status	Published - Dec 2005
Externally published	Yes

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