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Spring 2018 – Smart Reversible Oil-Water Separator

Affiliations:
Project Leader: Dali Huang
dhuang@tamu.edu
Chemical Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Zhengdong Cheng, Ph.D.
Meeting Times:
TBD
Team Size:
7 (Team Full)
Open Spots: 0
Special Opportunities:
Available conferences and poster presentations opportunities will be shared to team members.
Team Needs:
Basic engineering knowledge, interest in chemistry experiment
Description:
With the ever-increasing industrial oily wastewater and frequent oil spill accidents from tankers or pipelines, clean water is becoming a rare commodity in the world. Water pollution has now caused severe environmental and ecological damage to human and nature. Oil-water separation is an effective area for water pollution treatment and has already aroused full public concern. Traditional oil water separation method usually has only one irreversible direction (hydrophobic or hydrophilic), which limits their application. In our project, we will be developing a convenient and controllable reversible smart mesh separator to acquire oil-water separation process. This smart mesh separator should have longtime reversible wettability and can easily transfer from superhydrophobicity to superhydrophilicity, and vice versa. It can offer a good candidate for scale-up oil-water mixtures.

Written by:
Jennie Lamb
Published on:
February 7, 2020

Categories: FullTags: Spring 2018

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