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Utilization of Hydrophobic Aerogel Sorbents Fabricated from Plastic Waste for Oil Contaminated Water Treatment

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Last updated: 09 Mar 2025

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

This investigation describes a feasible, simple modification of the thermally induced phase separation technique to produce long-lasting oil aerogel sorpents from plastic waste (low-density polyethylene waste bags, high-density polyethylene waste bottles, and polypropylene waste containers). Numerous analysis, such as bulk density and porosity determination, XRD, FTIR, SEM, AFM, contact angle, and further practical experiments, were employed to detect the physical, structural, textural, morphological, topographs, and surface wettability aspects of the entire generated aerogels. Different samples contaminated with crude oil, diesel, and, lubricating oil were utilized to evaluate the generated aerogels' sorption capacities, removal efficiency, durability, recyclability, and stable sorption-desorption cycles. It's interesting to note that polyprolylene aerogel derived from plastic waste has the highest sorption capacities (210%), removal efficiencies (99%), stable sorption-desorption cycles (7 cycle), and long lifespan of other materials. This is due to its high water contact angle (148º), hierarchical rough surface, superior porosity with polymodal pore geometries, and intrinsic stereo structures. With limited stability and reusability, both aerogels made from waste low-density and high-density polyethylene exhibit reduced oil absorption capacity and removal efficiency for all types of oil.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2024.308250.10102

Keywords

plastic waste, Aerogel, polyethylene, polypropylene, Adsorption, Oil spill, Water treatment

Authors

First Name

sarah

Last Name

selim

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Affiliation

Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute

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bdalhlymsart@gmail.com

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First Name

Doaa

Last Name

Osman

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-

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Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute

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diosman@yahoo.com

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First Name

Sayed

Last Name

Attia

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-

Affiliation

Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute

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sayedattia_@yahoo.com

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First Name

Atef

Last Name

Darwish

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Ain Shams University

Email

atefdarwish@yahoo.com

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First Name

Renne

Last Name

Abdallah

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-

Affiliation

Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute

Email

renneeadallah@yahoo.com

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First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Hashem

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-

Affiliation

AinShams University

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ahmedhashem_@yahoo.com

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Volume

68

Article Issue

5

Related Issue

54251

Issue Date

2025-05-01

Receive Date

2024-08-02

Publish Date

2025-05-01

Page Start

193

Page End

205

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_380488.html

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380,488

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297

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Utilization of Hydrophobic Aerogel Sorbents Fabricated from Plastic Waste for Oil Contaminated Water Treatment

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09 Mar 2025