“Our JCM achieves exceptional oil and water recoveries of up to 97 and 75%, respectively, with near 99.9% purities,” the researchers wrote in the study paper. The recycling tech ...

Bacterial film separates water from oil Date: March 9, 2021 Source: North Carolina State University Summary: Researchers reported the findings of an experiment in which they used a material ...

Separating oil and water from complex mixtures is essential for many scientific and industrial applications, such as wastewater treatment and biological sorting. Membrane technologies play a ...

More information: Yang Yang et al, The separation of oily water using low-cost natural materials: Review and development, Chemosphere (2021).DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.131398 ...

As the researchers narrowed the width from 125 to 4 mm, oil recovery in the setup increased from 5 to 97%, and water recovery went from 19 to 75%. A multistage device with several Janus channels ...

All that oil and none for dust experiment. Lauren Donovan May 17, 2012 May 17, 2012 Updated May 17, 2012; 0 ... In Dunn County, the road goes to a fresh-water supply well.

In experiments with light crude oil—which is mainly a mix of gasoline, kerosene, and diesel—the membrane allowed 80–95% of gasoline-sized hydrocarbon molecules to pass through.

A Times analysis shows that increasingly complex oil and gas wells now require astonishing volumes of water to fracture the bedrock and release fossil fuels, threatening America’s fragile aquifers.