Rice University-led study fine-tunes pyrolysis technique to make soil fertile again Rice University engineers have figured out how soil contaminated by heavy oil can not only be cleaned but... Read more
Argonne National Laboratory researchers have invented a technology for recovering oil and other petroleum products from bodies of water that surpasses similar technologies that are currently... Read more
The material not only easily absorbs oil from water, but is also reusable and can pull dispersed oil from the entire water column—not just the surface. When the Deepwater Horizon drilling pi... Read more
Nano-coated mesh could clean oil spills for less than $1 per square foot The unassuming piece of stainless steel mesh in a lab at The Ohio State University doesn’t look like a very big deal,... Read more
Physicists at The Australian National University have created a tractor beam on water, providing a radical new technique that could confine oil spills, manipulate floating objects or explain... Read more
The separation was instantaneous and more efficient than existing films, and it only took one step to make the coating In the wake of recent off-shore oil spills, and with the growing popula... Read more
The CNT sponges were also shown to absorb vegetable oil up to 150 times of its initial weight A carbon nanotube sponge capable of soaking up water contaminants, such as fertilisers, pesticid... Read more
The noise caused by the waves can injure and impair many different species of fish and marine wildlife. East Asia and the Northwestern Pacific are home to some of the world’s biggest and mos... Read more
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Scientists are describing what may be a “complete solution” to cleaning up oil spills Scientists are describing what may be a “complete solution” to cleaning up oil spills — a superabsorbent... Read more
MIT researchers devise a surprisingly simple but effective method for magnetically separating oil and water. MIT researchers have developed a new technique for magnetically separating oil an... Read more
The leaking of environmentally damaging pollutants into our waters and atmosphere could soon be counteracted by a simple mathematical algorithm. Presenting their research June 26, in IOP Pub... Read more
Rapid and highly efficient collection of oils Scientists are reporting development and successful testing of the first self-propelled “microsubmarines” designed to pick up drople... Read more
“I don’t think anybody has created anything like this before,” A sponge made of pure carbon nanotubes with a dash of boron shows remarkable ability to absorb oil spills from the surface of w... Read more