TY - JOUR
T1 - Selective separation of oil and water with mesh membranes by capillarity
AU - Yu, Yuanlie
AU - Chen, Hua
AU - Liu, Yun
AU - Craig, Vincent S.J.
AU - Lai, Zhiping
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: YL and ZL acknowledge KAUST Center competitive grant FCC/1/1972-16-01. HC and VC acknowledge the Australian Research Council (ARC)'s support in the forms of Discovery Projects DP1095998, DP140102371 and Postdoctoral Research Fellowship DP1095998 and Future Fellowship programs FT 100100449.
PY - 2016/5/29
Y1 - 2016/5/29
N2 - The separation of oil and water from wastewater generated in the oil-production industries, as well as in frequent oil spillage events, is important in mitigating severe environmental and ecological damage. Additionally, a wide arrange of industrial processes require oils or fats to be removed from aqueous systems. The immiscibility of oil and water allows for the wettability of solid surfaces to be engineered to achieve the separation of oil and water through capillarity. Mesh membranes with extreme, selective wettability can efficiently remove oil or water from oil/water mixtures through a simple filtration process using gravity. A wide range of different types of mesh membranes have been successfully rendered with extreme wettability and applied to oil/water separation in the laboratory. These mesh materials have typically shown good durability, stability as well as reusability, which makes them promising candidates for an ever widening range of practical applications. © 2016 Elsevier B.V.
AB - The separation of oil and water from wastewater generated in the oil-production industries, as well as in frequent oil spillage events, is important in mitigating severe environmental and ecological damage. Additionally, a wide arrange of industrial processes require oils or fats to be removed from aqueous systems. The immiscibility of oil and water allows for the wettability of solid surfaces to be engineered to achieve the separation of oil and water through capillarity. Mesh membranes with extreme, selective wettability can efficiently remove oil or water from oil/water mixtures through a simple filtration process using gravity. A wide range of different types of mesh membranes have been successfully rendered with extreme wettability and applied to oil/water separation in the laboratory. These mesh materials have typically shown good durability, stability as well as reusability, which makes them promising candidates for an ever widening range of practical applications. © 2016 Elsevier B.V.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/621666
UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S000186861630080X
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cis.2016.05.008
DO - 10.1016/j.cis.2016.05.008
M3 - Article
C2 - 27246717
SN - 0001-8686
VL - 235
SP - 46
EP - 55
JO - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science
JF - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science
ER -