Imperial College London
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ProfessorDarylWilliams

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering

Professor of Particle Science
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 5611d.r.williams Website

 
 
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Location

 

439ACE ExtensionSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Cherukupally:2019:10.26434/chemrxiv.9756734,
author = {Cherukupally, P and Sun, W and Wong, APY and Williams, DR and Ozin, GA and Bilton, AM and Park, C},
doi = {10.26434/chemrxiv.9756734},
title = {Adsorptive Recovery of Crude Oil Microdroplets from Wastewater Using Surface Engineered Sponges},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.9756734},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - <jats:p>In the US, the oil industry produces over 15 billion barrels of wastewater contaminated with crude oil microdroplets annually. Current technologies are unable to remove these microdroplets at different pH conditions. Herein, an innovative surface engineered sponge (SenS) was designed by combining surface chemistry, surface charge, roughness, and surface energy. Under all pH conditions, the SEnS rapidly adsorbed oil microdroplets with 95-99% removal efficiency. The adsorbed oil was recovered at ambient conditions while the cleaned SEnS was reused for five times for crude oil adsorption. Due to the process efficacy, sponge reuse, and oil recovery, this adsorptive-recovery method using SEnS demonstrates great potential for the industrial recovery of oil from wastewater.</jats:p>
AU  - Cherukupally,P
AU  - Sun,W
AU  - Wong,APY
AU  - Williams,DR
AU  - Ozin,GA
AU  - Bilton,AM
AU  - Park,C
DO  - 10.26434/chemrxiv.9756734
PY  - 2019///
TI  - Adsorptive Recovery of Crude Oil Microdroplets from Wastewater Using Surface Engineered Sponges
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.9756734
ER  -
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