Superwettable porous spheres prepared by recyclable Pickering emulsion polymerization for multifarious oil/water separations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Wang ◽  
Hui Chi ◽  
Fan Zhang ◽  
Xinyue Wang ◽  
Yinchuan Wang ◽  
...  

A low-cost, environment-friendly, and sustainable strategy for fabricating a superwettable porous polymer sphere is reported for the treatment of various kinds of oil-in-water and water-in-oil emulsions.

Soft Matter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caimei Zhao ◽  
Lei Chen ◽  
Chuanming Yu ◽  
Binghua Hu ◽  
Haoxuan Huang ◽  
...  

Super-hydrophobic porous absorbent is a convenient, low-cost, efficient and environment-friendly material in the treatment of oil spills. In this work, a simple Pickering emulsion template method was employed to fabricate...


Polymers ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1071 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Jin Cho ◽  
Dong-Min Kim ◽  
In-Ho Song ◽  
Ju-Young Choi ◽  
Seung-Won Jin ◽  
...  

A pyromellitic dianhydride (PMDA) and 4,4′-oxydianiline (ODA)-based oligoimide (PMDA-ODA) was synthesized by a one-step procedure using water as a solvent. The PMDA-ODA particles showed excellent partial wetting properties and were stably dispersed in both water and oil phases. A stable dispersion was not obtained with comparison PMDA-ODA particles that were synthesized by a conventional two-step method using an organic solvent. Both oil-in-water and water-in-oil Pickering emulsions were prepared using the oligoimide particles synthesized in water, and the size of the emulsion droplet was controlled based on the oligoimide particle concentration. The oligoimide particles were tested to prepare Pickering emulsions using various kinds of oils. The oil-in-water Pickering emulsions were successfully applied to prepare microcapsules of the emulsion droplets. Our new Pickering emulsion stabilizer has the advantages of easy synthesis, no need for surface modification, and the capability of stabilizing both oil-in-water and water-in-oil emulsions.


2018 ◽  
pp. 28-37
Author(s):  
Piotr Pacholski ◽  
Jerzy Sęk

The wastewater produced by the metal industry is often present in the form of oil-in-water (O/W) or water-in- oil (W/O) emulsions. These fluids contain a certain amount of valuable oil that can be recovered in the recycling process. Therefore, the development of novel, efficient, and low cost processes for the treatment of metalworking fluid is necessary. Demulsification to separate oil/water mixtures is a very interesting option because it allows the recovery and reuse of the lubricant oil and effects in cleaner, easily treatablemwastewater.Chemical destabilization is the most common way of demulsification of metalworking fluids. As an example, inorganic salts can be used as demulsifiers. In the presented work the efficiency of treatment of cutting emulsions with chemical demulsification with usage of aluminum sulfate (IV) is described. The emulsion was prepared with Emulgol-ES12 self-emulsyfing oil delivered by Orlen S.A. In the research the feasibility of the demulsifier was checked.The novel in this paper is determination of the optimal dosage of emulsifier using the TurbiscanLab® apparatus. It is relatively quick and precise method that can be applied in the industry.


2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (32) ◽  
pp. 13534-13541
Author(s):  
Xin Gao ◽  
Qiang Ma ◽  
Zhengwei Jin ◽  
Pei Nian ◽  
Zheng Wang

A switchable superlyophobic ZIF-8 membrane can selectively remove oil droplets in oil-in-water emulsions via superoleophobicity and water droplets in water-in-oil emulsions via superhydrophobicity.


2004 ◽  
Vol 70 (10) ◽  
pp. 6333-6336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loredana S. Dorobantu ◽  
Anthony K. C. Yeung ◽  
Julia M. Foght ◽  
Murray R. Gray

ABSTRACT Formation of oil-water emulsions during bacterial growth on hydrocarbons is often attributed to biosurfactants. Here we report the ability of certain intact bacterial cells to stabilize oil-in-water and water-in-oil emulsions without changing the interfacial tension, by inhibition of droplet coalescence as observed in emulsion stabilization by solid particles like silica.


Coatings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chih-Feng Wang ◽  
Yi-Jung Tsai ◽  
Shiao-Wei Kuo ◽  
Kuo-Jung Lee ◽  
Chien-Chieh Hu ◽  
...  

In this study, a method that can simultaneously separate oil/water mixtures and water-in-oil emulsions were developed. Various substrates (synthetic polymers and stainless steel meshes) were coated by rough hydrophobic polymer films. The prepared materials possessed superhydrophobicity and superoleophilicity. These superhydrophobic sponges can isolate extensive amounts of oil from water when connected to a related vacuum framework. Moreover, the superhydrophobic meshes (SHM) can separate both surfactant-free and -stabilized water-in-oil emulsions via gravity with high separation efficiency (oil purity: >99.99%) and flux (up to 4760 L m−2 h−1). The extraordinary performance of our materials and their low-energy, efficient, low-cost preparation propose that they have great potential for real-time applications.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 3434
Author(s):  
Haodong Zhao ◽  
Yali He ◽  
Zhihua Wang ◽  
Yanbao Zhao ◽  
Lei Sun

Emulsified oily wastewater threatens human health seriously, and traditional technologies are unable to separate emulsion containing small sized oil droplets. Currently, oil–water emulsions are usually separated by special wettability membranes, and researchers are devoted to developing membranes with excellent antifouling performance and high permeability. Herein, a novel, simple and low-cost method has been proposed for the separation of emulsion containing surfactants. Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) nanofibers were prepared via electrospinning and then coated by polydopamine (PDA) by using self-polymerization reactions in aqueous solutions. The morphology, structure and oil-in-water emulsion separation properties of the as-prepared PDA@PAN nanofibrous membrane were tested. The results show that PDA@PAN nanofibrous membrane has superhydrophilicity and almost no adhesion to crude oil in water, which exhibits excellent oil–water separation ability. The permeability and separation efficiency of n-hexane/water emulsion are up to 1570 Lm−2 h−1 bar−1 and 96.1%, respectively. Furthermore, after 10 cycles of separation, the permeability and separation efficiency values do not decrease significantly, indicating its good recycling performance. This research develops a new method for preparing oil–water separation membrane, which can be used for efficient oil-in-water emulsion separation.


Processes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 633
Author(s):  
Firdaous Fainassi ◽  
Noamane Taarji ◽  
Fatiha Benkhalti ◽  
Abdellatif Hafidi ◽  
Marcos A. Neves ◽  
...  

The surface-active and emulsifying properties of crude aqueous ethanolic extracts from untreated olive oil cake (OOC) were investigated. OOC extracts contained important concentrations of surface-active components including proteins, saponins and polyphenols (1.2–2.8%, 7.8–9.5% and 0.7–4.5% (w/w), respectively) and reduced the interfacial tension by up to 46% (14.0 ± 0.2 mN m−1) at the oil–water interface. The emulsifying ability of OOC extracts was not correlated, however, with their interfacial activity or surface-active composition. Eighty percent aqueous ethanol extract produced the most stable oil-in-water (O/W) emulsions by high-pressure homogenization. The emulsions had average volume mean droplet diameters of approximately 0.4 µm and negative ζ-potentials of about -45 mV, and were stable for up to 1 month of storage at 5, 25 and 50 °C. They were sensitive, however, to acidic pH conditions (<5) and NaCl addition (≥25 mM), indicating that the main stabilization mechanism is electrostatic due to the presence of surface-active compounds with ionizable groups, such as saponins.


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