Surface Engineering of Ceramic Nanomaterials for Separation of Oil/Water Mixtures.

ABSTRACT: Oil/water mixtures are a potentially major source of environmental pollution if efficient separation technology is not employed during processing. A large volume of oil/water mixtures is produced via many manufacturing operations in food, petrochemical, mining, and metal industries and can be exposed to water sources on a regular basis. To date, several techniques are used in practice to deal with industrial oil/water mixtures and oil spills such as in situ burning of oil, bioremediation, and solidifiers, which change the physical shape of oil as a result of chemical interaction. Physical separation of oil/water mixtures is in industrial practice; however, the existing technologies to do so often require either dissipation of large amounts of energy (such as in cyclones and hydrocyc

SUBMITTER: Zulfiqar U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7711160 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature