A steel mesh with a novel self-cleaning coating can separate oil and water, easily lifting oil from an oil-water mixture and leaving the water behind (ACS Nano 2015, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b03791). If ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Aerogels, sometimes called frozen smoke, are nanoscale foams: solid materials whose sponge-like structure is riddled by pores as small as nanometers across. They can be made from ...

STI has obtained Underwriters Laboratories (UL) approval for the new AquaSweep gravity oil/water separator. Tested and listed according to UL Subject STI has obtained Underwriters Laboratories (UL) ...

Santa Barbara County Public Works has wrapped up the Toro Canyon Oil Water Separator Project, a multimillion-dollar effort designed to stop crude oil from seeping into Toro Canyon Creek and protect ...

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Saudi Aramco confirmed that inlet distributor design on an existing low-pressure degassing tank (LPDT) was the root cause of poor water separation at its gas-oil separation plant (GOSP). Despite the ...

Named after the two-faced Roman god Janus to reflect its dual-purpose design, researchers present a novel membrane system – a Janus channel of membranes (JCM) – capable of simultaneously separating ...

Hydrophobic nanoparticles create fluorine-free, water-repellent cotton with micro- and nanoscale surface textures.

The industry still has installed only a few downhole oil-water and gas-water separators, and the technology has languished compared with activity and expectations made during the late 1990s, according ...

FPSO crude separation is a staged, three-phase process that uses pressure letdown, heating, and electrostatic coalescence to split well fluids into stabilized crude, export gas, and treated produced ...