Clean Up and Recovery of Oil from Water Bodies Using Oil Sorbents with High Sorption Capacity, Oil/Water Selectivity and Reusability
Keywords:
Environmental protection, super-hydrophobic, super-oleophilic, oil absorbent, oil spill clean-up commas.
Abstract
To enhance the removal of oil contaminants from water, an oil spill clean-up sorbent was prepared by synthesizing
a lignin based polyurethane foam (LPU) and modified with graphene and 1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluorodecanethiol (PFD)
monomer (LPU-rGO-PFD). The LPU-rGO-PFD sorbent was fabricated by anchoring of reduced graphene oxide (rGO)
on the skeleton of a LPU foam using adhesive polydopamine, followed by functionalization with (PFD) monomer.
This resulted in the ability to tune the surface properties of the LPU sponge skeleton to superhydrophobic and
super-oleophilic, with a contact angle of 140.1°. The LPU-rGO-PFD sorbent was characterized with microscopic and
spectroscopic analyses, and it exhibited many outstanding features, including a high sorption capacity (up to 68.2
times its own weight), high selectivity to crude oil sorption, and excellent reusability in comparison to commercial
non-woven polypropylene sorbent. Furthermore, the oil sorption capacity remained the same after 20 cycles of oil
sorption-squeezing experiments and the absorbed crude oil could be removed and collected by a simple squeezing
process before reuse. As a result, LPU-rGO-PFD is considered as a promising oil sorbent for oil spill containment
removal and environmental protection.
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application as effective sorbents for oil spill clean-ups and recovery. AIChE Journal, 63(9), 4090-4102.
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with thiol modification and their applications in oil/water separation. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces, 5(5),
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Functionalization of Graphene Oxide Nanosheets. Macromolecules, 43(20), 8336-8339.
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removal of organic pollutants from water. RSC Advances, 6(6), 4889-4898.
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graphene for highly efficient oil-absorption. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering
Aspects, 488, 93-99.
Zhou, X., Zhang, Z., Xu, X., Men, X. and Zhu, X. (2013). Facile Fabrication of Superhydrophobic Sponge with
Selective Absorption and Collection of Oil from Water. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research,
52(27), 9411-9416.
Zhu, Y., Wang, D., Jiang, L. and Jin, J. (2014). Recent progress in developing advanced membranes for emulsified
oil/water separation. NPG Asia Materials, 6(5), e101-e101.
Published
2020-07-27
How to Cite
Oribayo, O. (2020). Clean Up and Recovery of Oil from Water Bodies Using Oil Sorbents with High Sorption Capacity, Oil/Water Selectivity and Reusability. Journal of Engineering Research, 25(2), 227-237. Retrieved from http://jer.unilag.edu.ng/article/view/1005
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