Abstract Treatment of petroleum spills and organic solvent pollution in general is an
important issue; several techniques are under development to remove oil from water. The …

The adsorption of crude oil from water by using Potassium hydroxide (KOH) prepared from
coconut coir activated carbon CCACKOH was investigated by batch adsorption under …

Abstract The dependence of Nigerian Government on foreign technology for oil spill cleanup
in its water bodies does not add local content value in the development of the Nation's …

Acetylation method was used in the modification of Delonix regia pods (DRPs) as sorbent for
crude oil cleanup in water. Fourier transform infra-red (FTIR) and scanning electron …

Modeling of adsorption process establishes mathematical relationship between the
interacting process variables and process optimization is important in determining the …

The efficiency of raw rice husk (RRH) and the thermally treated one including black rice husk
ash (BRHA) and white rice husk ash (WRHA) was examined for the removal of three oil …

Activated carbon was produced from rice husk via thermal pretreatment preceding chemical
modification with phosphoric acid. In order to study the effect of phosphoric acid …

Oil pollution such as diesel poses a significant threat to the environment. Due to this, there is
increasing interest in using natural materials mainly from agricultural waste as organic oil …

Agricultural sorbents have received attention for their effectiveness in oil removal. In
Malaysia, oil palm's empty fruit bunch (EFB) spikelets are an abundant agricultural waste …

Due to the rising use of crude oil and its derivatives, there is a growing apprehension over
the contamination of aquatic environments by oil. Hence, it is important to devise efficient …