As oil prices have increased, interest in downhole oil-water separators (DOWS) has returned after a 2-year lull caused by a low oil price and the nervousness of operators to install relatively ...

The industry still has installed only a few downhole oil-water and gas-water separators, and the technology has languished compared with activity and expectations made during the late 1990s, according ...

Oil spills and oily industrial wastewater are a nightmare for factories, the environment, and public health. Separating oil from water might sound simple, but in reality it's one of the toughest jobs ...

A steel mesh with a novel self-cleaning coating can separate oil and water, easily lifting oil from an oil-water mixture and leaving the water behind (ACS Nano 2015, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b03791). If ...

The principle of centrifugal separation is ancient, but its modern industrial application is a feat of precision engineering. As global challenges such as water scarcity, stringent environmental ...

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Named after the two-faced Roman god Janus to reflect its dual-purpose design, researchers present a novel membrane system – a Janus channel of membranes (JCM) – capable of simultaneously separating ...

For years, scientists have been inspired by nature to innovate solutions to tricky problems, even oil spills -- manmade disasters with devastating environmental and economic consequences. A new study ...

SKF introduces high performance and quick to install device for oil and water separation in marine applications. SKF has launched a new mechanical device for the fast and easy separation of oil and ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Aerogels, sometimes called frozen smoke, are nanoscale foams: solid materials whose sponge-like structure is riddled by pores as small as nanometers across. They can be made from ...