Construction of a Superhydrophobic Sodium Alginate Aerogel for Efficient Oil Absorption and Emulsion Separation.

Bio-based aerogels serve as potential materials in separation of oil/water mixtures. Nevertheless, there remain some key challenges, including expensive/toxic organic cross-linkers, unpromising reusability, and poor performance in emulsion separation. Hereby, a novel, robust, and superhydrophobic sodium alginate/graphene oxide/silicon oxide aerogel (SA/GO/SiO-M) was fabricated by simple calcium ion cross-linking self-assembly, freeze-drying, and chemical vapor deposition methods based on the renewable and abundant raw materials.

Hydrolyzed polyacrylamide-containing wastewater treatment using ozone reactor-upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor-aerobic biofilm reactor multistage treatment system.

Polymer flooding is one of the most important enhanced oil recovery techniques. However, a large amount of hydrolyzed polyacrylamide (HPAM)-containing wastewater is produced in the process of polymer flooding, and this poses a potential threat to the environment. In this study, the treatment of HPAM-containing wastewater was analyzed in an ozonic-anaerobic-aerobic multistage treatment process involving an ozone reactor (OR), an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor (UASBR), and an aerobic biofilm reactor (ABR).

Construction of a hydrophobic magnetic aerogel based on chitosan for oil/water separation applications.

Hydrophobic/oleophilic absorbents have been largely studied and used in recovering spilled oil. However, they still suffer from several drawbacks and two of them are poor biocompatibility and hard to thoroughly rinse. In order to address these problems, here a hydrophobic magnetic chitosan-based aerogel is fabricated via electrostatic interactions between chitosan (CS), itaconic acid (IA) and FeO nanoparticles and dip-coating in ethanol solution of Candelilla wax (CW).

Insights into the effect of different levels of crude oil on hydrolyzed polyacrylamide biotransformation in aerobic and anoxic biosystems: Bioresource production, enzymatic activity, and microbial function.

The differences of crude oil recovery ratio resulted in different levels of crude oil in actual hydrolyzed polyacrylamide (HPAM)-containing wastewater. The effect of crude oil on HPAM biotransformation was explored from bioresource production, enzymatic activity and microbial function. In aerobic biosystems, the highest polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) yield (19.

Enhanced hydrolyzed polyacrylamide removal from water by an aerobic biofilm reactor-ozone reactor-aerobic biofilm reactor hybrid treatment system: Performance, key enzymes and functional microorganisms.

Degradation of hydrolyzed polyacrylamide-containing (HPAM-containing) wastewater was investigated in a lab-scale aerobic-ozonic-aerobic hybrid treatment system. When the HPAM concentration was 500 mg L and the ozone dose was 25 g O/g TOC, the HPAM removal rate reached 90.79%.

Biohydrogen and polyhydroxyalkanoate production from original hydrolyzed polyacrylamide-containing wastewater.

This work aimed to study biohydrogen (H) and polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production from original hydrolyzed polyacrylamide (HPAM)-containing wastewater. NH-N from HPAM hydrolysis was removed efficiently through short-cut nitrification and anoxic ammonia oxidation (anammox). Carbon/Nitrogen (C/N) ratios of effluent reached 51-97, and TOC decreased only 2%-4%, providing potential for subsequent H and PHA production.