Saturday, October 6, 2012

New Cleanup Method Offers Major Solution to Oil Spills, Study Says

Yale Environment 360: Scientists have developed a superabsorbent material they say offers a cost-effective way to remove, recover and clean up large oil spills. Writing in the journal Energy & Fuels, Pennsylvania State University researchers Xuepei Yuan and T. C. Mike Chung describe a polymer material that they say can absorb 40 times its own weight in oil, transforming spilled material into a solid, oil-containing gel that is strong enough to be collected and transported to oil refineries for reprocessing. While many...

URL: http://e360.yale.edu/digest/new_cleanup_method_offers_major_solution_to_oil_spills_study_says/3652/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29
Enclosure: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ef300388h

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