The rapid cleanup of heavy crude oil spills is challenging due to the poor mobility of highly viscous oil.Traditional absorption strategies involve heating oils to a relatively high temperature to reduce their viscosi...The rapid cleanup of heavy crude oil spills is challenging due to the poor mobility of highly viscous oil.Traditional absorption strategies involve heating oils to a relatively high temperature to reduce their viscosity,but this method is expensive.Herein,a solar-heated reduced graphene oxide(rGO)-wrapped melamine sponge(MS)was proposed to rapidly absorb oil.The prepared rGO-MS exhibited good hydrophobicity and oleophilicity and could be used for the rapid cleanup of oil spills from water.In addition,the excellent photothermal conversion effect of rGO enabled the rGO-MS composite to achieve a solar energy absorption efficiency of 91%.Due to the localized solar energy collection and wetting properties of rGO-MS,viscous oil near the contact region was effectively heated,enabling rapid heavy oil recovery under solar light illumination.This proposed solar heating-assisted viscous oil sorbent has great promise for use in heavy oil spill cleanups in the future.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51806052)the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province(Grant No.LH2019E053)+1 种基金the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant Nos.2018M630352,2019T120265)the Natural Scientific Research Innovation Foundation in Harbin Institute of Technology(Grant No.2020053)。
文摘The rapid cleanup of heavy crude oil spills is challenging due to the poor mobility of highly viscous oil.Traditional absorption strategies involve heating oils to a relatively high temperature to reduce their viscosity,but this method is expensive.Herein,a solar-heated reduced graphene oxide(rGO)-wrapped melamine sponge(MS)was proposed to rapidly absorb oil.The prepared rGO-MS exhibited good hydrophobicity and oleophilicity and could be used for the rapid cleanup of oil spills from water.In addition,the excellent photothermal conversion effect of rGO enabled the rGO-MS composite to achieve a solar energy absorption efficiency of 91%.Due to the localized solar energy collection and wetting properties of rGO-MS,viscous oil near the contact region was effectively heated,enabling rapid heavy oil recovery under solar light illumination.This proposed solar heating-assisted viscous oil sorbent has great promise for use in heavy oil spill cleanups in the future.
