Application of Mineral Sorbents for Removal of Petroleum Substances: A Review
Open Access
- 8 March 2017
- Vol. 7 (3), 37
- https://doi.org/10.3390/min7030037
Abstract
Environmental pollution with petroleum products has become a major problem worldwide, and is a consequence of industrial growth. The development of sustainable methods for the removal of petroleum substances and their derivatives from aquatic and terrestrial environments and from air has therefore become extremely important today. Advanced technologies and materials dedicated to this purpose are relatively expensive; sorption methods involving mineral sorbents are therefore popular and are widely described in the scientific literature. Mineral materials are easily available, low-cost, universal adsorbents and have a number of properties that make them suitable for the removal of petroleum substances. This review describes recent works on the use of natural, synthetic and modified mineral adsorbents for the removal of petroleum substances and their derivatives from roads, water and air.Keywords
This publication has 86 references indexed in Scilit:
- Early hematological and immunological alterations in gasoline station attendants exposed to benzeneEnvironmental Research, 2015
- The Use of Natural Sorbents for Spilled Crude Oil and Diesel Cleanup from the Water SurfaceWater, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2014
- Petroleum contamination of soil and water, and their effects on vegetables by statistically analyzing entire data setScience of The Total Environment, 2014
- Removal of hydrocarbon from refinery tank bottom sludge employing microbial cultureEnvironmental Science and Pollution Research, 2013
- Bioremediation of a tropical clay soil contaminated with diesel oilJournal of Environmental Management, 2012
- Comparative study of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in plasma of Eastern Atlantic juvenile and adult nesting loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta)Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2012
- Review on the effects of exposure to spilled oils on human healthJournal of Applied Toxicology, 2010
- Separation of oil from oily wastewater by sorption and coalescence technique using ethanol grafted polyacrylonitrileJournal of Hazardous Materials, 2009
- Effects of acute exposure to heavy fuel oil from the Prestige spill on a seabirdAquatic Toxicology, 2007
- Sorption of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylenes to various mediaJournal of Hazardous Materials, 1994