Smart Sand by Surface Engineering: Toward Controllable Oil/Water Separation

Jian Chang; Chi Siang Ong; Yusuf Shi; Jiayin Yuan; Zeyad Ahmed; Peng Wang

doi:10.1021/acs.iecr.1c01450

Smart Sand by Surface Engineering: Toward Controllable Oil/Water Separation

Jian Chang, Chi Siang Ong, Yusuf Shi, Jiayin Yuan, Zeyad Ahmed, Peng Wang

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Abstract

Sand, an abundant resource from the nature, is a promising candidate for oil/water separation. Herein, raw sand was designed with switchable surface wettability to enable recyclability and versatility in practical oil/water separation. The “smart” sand was fabricated by grafting pH-responsive poly(4-vinylpyridine) (P4VP) and oleophilic/hydrophobic octadecyltrimethoxysilane (OTS) onto its surface. The decorated sand can be used as the oil sorbent for controllable oil sorption and desorption in response to different pHs, as well as a filter to selectively separate either oil or water on demand. This novel design offers an intelligent, low-cost, large-scale, and highly efficient route to potentially settle the issues of industrial oily wastewater and oil spill.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.1c01450
State	Published - Jun 23 2021

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KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-06-25
Acknowledgements: We would like to thank the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Saudi Aramco for generous funding to support this project (RGC/3/3577-01-01).

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General Chemistry
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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