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Wettability Improvement in Oil–Water Separation by Nano-Pillar ZnO Texturing

Nanomaterials, 2022
The nanostructure-based surface texturing can be used to improve the materials wettability. Regarding oil–water separation, designing a surface with special wettability is as an important approach to improve the separation efficiency.
Xiaoyan Liu, Shaotong Feng, Caihua Wang, Dayun Yan, Lei Chen, Bao Wang   +5 more
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Enhancing Oil Removal from Water using Ferric Oxide Nanoparticles Doped Carbon Nanotubes Adsorbents [PDF]

, 2016
Oil contaminated water is one of the challenges in water resources management. It is crucial to remove the oil droplets from water in order to meet the discharge regulations set by the environmental authorities.
Abdala, Ahmed, Al-marri, Mohammed, Fard, Ahmad Kayvani, Hilal, Nidal, Hussien, Muataz A., Mckay, Gordon, Rhadfi, Tarik   +6 more
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Bio-Inspired Eco-Friendly Superhydrophilic/Underwater Superoleophobic Cotton for Oil-Water Separation and Removal of Heavy Metals

Biomimetics, 2022
Effective integrated methods for oil-water separation and water remediation have signifi-cance in both energy and environment fields. Materials with both superlyophobic and superlyophilic properties toward water and oil have aroused great attention due ...
Feiran Li, Jian Wang, Zhuochao Wang, Dongchao Ji, Shuai Wang, Pengcheng Wei, Wenxin Cao   +6 more
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On‐Demand Separation of Oil‐Water Mixtures [PDF]

, 2012
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/92052/1/3666_ftp.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/92052/2/adma_201201364_sm_suppl ...
Ahuja, Arnot, Berge, Buehrle, Cao, Cassie, Choi, Elektorowicz, Eow, Gras, Herminghaus, Hlavacek, Hong, Hu, Klarman, Koltuniewicz, Kota, Krupenkin, Maartens, Mabry, Manukyan, Marmur, Marmur, Mugele, Mugele, Oh, Owens, Quilliet, Shamai, Sun, Tuteja, Tuteja, Wenzel, Young   +33 more
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Numerical simulation of oil-water separation characteristics in Y-tube

Gongye shui chuli
Pipeline-type oil-water separation technology has the advantages of small footprint, high separation efficiency and low cost. A Y-type tubular oil-water separation structure was designed based on the principle of pipeline-type oil-water separation.
HUA Jian, HU Jiahao, MA Zhongjie, LI Wei, WANG Linhu   +4 more
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Nanostructured Three-Dimensional Percolative Channels for Separation of Oil-in-Water Emulsions

iScience, 2018
Summary: Separation of oil/water mixtures has been one of the leading green technologies for applications such as oil recovery and water purification. Conventional methods to separate oil from water are based on phase separation via physical settlement ...
Jian Jin, Xiaoli Zhao, Yong-Hua Du, Mei Ding, Chengjie Xiang, Ning Yan, Chuankun Jia, Zheng Han, Lidong Sun   +8 more
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pH-RESPONSIVE WOOD SLICES FOR THE CONTINUOUS SEPARATION OF LIGHT OIL/WATER/HEAVY OIL TRIPHASE MIXTURES

Química Nova, 2021
Light oil/water/heavy oil triphase mixtures are common in industrial wastewater, while nearly all separation materials with superwettability can only separate biphase mixtures of light oil/water or/and heavy oil/water.
Yanbiao Zhou, Kaige Qu, Lihui Zhang, Ming La   +3 more
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High-performance oil-water separation polytetrafluoroethylene membranes prepared by picosecond laser direct ablation and drilling

Materials & Design, 2019
The membranes with special surface wettability have attracted considerable attention, especially in the practical applications of oil-water separation.
Zhongli Qin, Huiqin Xiang, Jianguo Liu, Xiaoyan Zeng   +3 more
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Superwetting Stainless Steel Mesh Used for Both Immiscible Oil/Water and Surfactant-Stabilized Emulsion Separation

Membranes, 2023
The design and fabrication of advanced membrane materials for versatile oil/water separation are major challenges. In this work, a superwetting stainless steel mesh (SSM) modified with in situ-grown TiO2 was successfully prepared via one-pot hydrothermal
Yu-Ping Zhang, Ya-Ning Wang, Li Wan, Xin-Xin Chen, Chang-Hua Zhao   +4 more
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Stability of additive-free water-in-oil emulsions

, 2008
We calculate ion distributions near a planar oil-water interface within non-linear Poisson-Boltzmann theory, taking into account the Born self-energy of the ions in the two media.
de Graaf J Zwanikken J Bier M Baarsma A Oloumi Y Spelt M van Roij R, Joost de Graaf, Jos Zwanikken, Kung W Solis F J Olvera de la Cruz M, Markus Bier, René van Roij, Verwey E J W   +6 more
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