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Investigation study the ability of superhydrophobic silica to adsorb the Iraqi crude oil leaked in water

2019; IOP Publishing; Volume: 571; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1088/1757-899x/571/1/012116

1757-899X

Israa F. Al-sharuee, Fatin Hameed Mohammed,

Aerogels and thermal insulation

Abstract A superhydrophobic silica has been utilized as adsorbed the Crude oil leaked during transport in the water of the Iraqi rivers, the capacity absorbing of the aerogel powder for crude oil has been determined. This technique is very important to get rid of environmental pollution caused by the leakage of crude oil in water, which in turn cause death of living beings, this application is an important economic wealth in the country, preliminary tests on water of rivers mixed with the crude oil, by using the aerogel in powder form to clean the water from crude oil, the study depended on two parameters are surface area and contact angle. We found that the increase on surface area lead to increasing on the capacity of adsorbing the crude oil from water, also this result with contact angle.