Researchers in China have unveiled a new, highly effective technique for separating oil and water mixtures. Oil and water mixtures naturally separate over time. However, in industrial processes ...

Researchers reported the findings of an experiment in which they used a material produced by the bacteria Gluconacetobacter hansenii as a filter to separate water from an oil mixture.

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

Accidental oil discharge into the river can lead to an environmental catastrophe, threatening the lives of countless aquatic animals as well as land animals that forms the ecosystem of the river ...

All you need for this at home science experiment is pepper, soap and water (oil and milk can also be used in addition to water, and will yield different results). Put the pepper into the water ...

He’ll talk about the Oil and Gas Research funded project at next week’s Williston Basin Petroleum Council annual meeting and issue a report in the fall. He has $440,000 to conduct the tests.

Mixtures of oil and water can be efficiently separated by pumping them into thin channels between semipermeable membranes, paving the way to cheaper and cleaner ways to deal with industrial waste ...

Separating the complex mix of hydrocarbons found in crude oil is crucial for producing fuels and chemicals. It’s done today using energy-intensive distillation. Now researchers have developed a ...

When a stable oil-water emulsion is pumped through a channel between two membranes of opposing surface properties, clear water flows out on one side and red-dyed oil on the other.