Oil-in-water (O/W) emulsion is one type of oily wastewater produced by many industries. The treatment of and resource recovery from O/W emulsions are very challenging. Unlike bulk or floating oil, which can be successfully abstracted from wastewater by hydrophobic/oleophilic materials, the abstraction of emulsified oil is not easy because of its highly hydrophilic surface composed of dense surfactants. Separate reclamation of miscible oil and surfactant through a green approach is even more difficult. Here, we report that a CO-responsive material can abstract emulsified oil and demulsify the oil droplets. Moreover, it can release the abstracted oil and surfactant separately. This material exhibited a very high adsorption capacity for emulsified oil (14 g g). Upon switching the surface wettability of the material under CO or synthetic flue gas sparging, coalesced oil was reclaimed while the surfactant was retained inside the pores. The hydrophobic character of the material was retrieved when CO was purged with nitrogen sparging or air heating. Then, the surfactant was reclaimed by elution with diluted alkali/ethanol. Oil and surfactant were thus separately reclaimed from the O/W emulsion. High rates of oil removal, oil recovery, and surfactant recovery were maintained during repeated adsorption/desorption operations. This work provides a potentially sustainable and green way for O/W emulsion treatment and resource recovery.
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