Surface modification of polymeric foams for oil spills remediation

J Pinto, A Athanassiou, D Fragouli - Journal of environmental management, 2018 - Elsevier
In the last decade, a continuous increasing research activity is focused on the surface
functionalization of polymeric porous materials for the efficient removal of oil contaminants …

Polyurethane foam impregnated with lignin as a filler for the removal of crude oil from contaminated water

OSH Santos, MC da Silva, VR Silva, WN Mussel… - Journal of hazardous …, 2017 - Elsevier
The present study describes the influence of the concentration of lignin when used as a filler
in polyurethane foam for crude oil sorption. The foams (lignin 0–20 wt%) were characterized …

[HTML][HTML] Natural rubber/reduced-graphene oxide composite materials: Morphological and oil adsorption properties for treatment of oil spills

S Songsaeng, P Thamyongkit… - Journal of Advanced …, 2019 - Elsevier
A green sorbent material was fabricated through the simple addition of reduced graphene
oxide (rGO) to natural rubber (NR) latex. The effect of rGO content in the NR foam on …

Magnetic, thermally stable, and superhydrophobic polyurethane sponge: A high efficient adsorbent for separation of the marine oil spill pollution

N Habibi, A Pourjavadi - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Herein, we demonstrated a facile method for the fabrication of magnetic and
superhydrophobic polyurethane sponge with water contact angle of 159° as an adsorbent …

Crude oil and S500 diesel removal from seawater by polyurethane composites reinforced with palm fiber residues

LS Martins, NC Zanini, LS Maia, AG Souza… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, we prepared PU-composites with Australian palm residues (PR) in different
contents (5, 10, 15, and 20 wt%) and granulometry (28 and 35 mesh) to improve the oil …

Multifunctional esterified nanocellulose aerogel: impact of fatty chain length on oil/water separation and thermal insulation

M Chhajed, C Verma, P Gupta, PK Maji - Cellulose, 2023 - Springer
A sustainable esterification approach has been used to developed for the superhydrophobic
functionalization of nanocellulose-based aerogel. The preliminary study emphasizes the …

Effect of liquefied lignin content on synthesis of bio-based polyurethane foam for oil adsorption application

R Mohammadpour… - Journal of Polymers and …, 2020 - Springer
The present study focused on synthesizing polyurethane foams with different contents of
liquefied lignin. To fulfill that, the weight ratios of liquefied lignin to polypropylene glycol triol …

N-doped reduced graphene oxide aerogel for the selective adsorption of oil pollutants from water: Isotherm and kinetic study

Z Rahmani, AM Rashidi, MT Samadi… - Journal of industrial and …, 2018 - Elsevier
N-doped graphene aerogel with a 3D inter-connected network was synthesized using
graphene oxide and pyrrole in an aqueous medium with ammonia. Hydrothermal and …

Polyurethane sponge modified by alginate and activated carbon with abilities of oil absorption, and selective cationic and anionic dyes clean-up

S Mallakpour, V Behranvand - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, compact disc-derived activated carbon black (D-ACB) was hybridized with
sodium alginate to modify polyurethane (PU) sponges. After immersing the PU sponge in …

Efficient and fast removal of oils from water surfaces via highly oleophilic polyurethane composites

A De Nino, F Olivito, V Algieri, P Costanzo, A Jiritano… - Toxics, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this study we evaluated the oil adsorption capacity of an aliphatic polyurethane foam (PU
1) and two of its composites, produced through surface coating using microparticles of silica …