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Advanced Sorbents for Oil‐Spill Cleanup: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives
Author(s) -
Ge Jin,
Zhao HaoYu,
Zhu HongWu,
Huang Jin,
Shi LuAn,
Yu ShuHong
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201601812
Subject(s) - oil spill , environmental remediation , materials science , petroleum engineering , enhanced oil recovery , waste management , sorption , process (computing) , environmental science , process engineering , computer science , adsorption , contamination , engineering , organic chemistry , chemistry , ecology , biology , operating system
Oil sorbents play a very important part in the remediation processes of oil spills. To enhance the oil‐sorption properties and simplify the oil‐recovery process, various advanced oil sorbents and oil‐collecting devices based on them have been proposed recently. Here, we firstly discuss the design considerations for the fabrication of oil sorbents and describe recently developed oil sorbents based on modification strategy. Then, recent advances regarding oil sorbents mainly based on carbon materials and swellable oleophilic polymers are also presented. Subsequently, some additional properties are emphasized, which are required by oil sorbents to cope with oil spills under extreme conditions or to facilitate the oil‐collection processes. Furthermore, some oil‐collection devices based on oil sorbents that have been developed recently are shown. Finally, an outlook and challenges for the next generation of oil‐spill‐remediation technology based on oil‐sorbents materials are given.