Blocking the oil spill disaster in magnet

Scientists in the US have found a method for separating oil from water by magnet, a simple technique, fast and economical Disaster Recovery.

Oil spills can cause terrible impacts to marine Disaster Recovery ecosystems. So the efforts to minimize the damage of the oil spill is extremely important.

The oil spill treatment measures include: bioremediation, marine fuel oil, used oil degradation substances and oil recovered. However, these methods often require more time (maybe several weeks) and very expensive. So researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed oil and water separation technique using magnetic methods and techniques can be used to clean up the oil slick, ENN reported.

Oil spill in Mexico

The new technique will help collect oil spills and taken to a refinery for recycling. Markus Zahn, a professor at MIT, said: "Disaster Recovery After the BP oil spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico two years ago, I thought that if magnetised oil, we will be able to suck the oil with the strong magnets and separate oil from water. "

Zahn and his colleagues mixed metal nanoparticles color waterproof with oil and use magnets to separate oil from water. Then, the Disaster Recovery are removed from the oil by means of magnetism. When oil spills occur, most of the oil will sink and spread by the action of water flow. Strong sea waves also makes the handling more difficult by the oil spill dispersed oil and more widespread. However, when people mix magnetic nanoparticles into the oil, the nanoparticles will bind to the molecular machinery oil and help separate them from the water.

Shahriar Khushrushahi, lead author of the study, said: "Thanks to a magnet, we can separate oil from water very fast because the magnetic attractive force much stronger than the adhesion between water and oil. We really can make this process faster and continuously without extra effort. "

Design and implementation process of this technique are quite simple.Analysts said the MIT study actually benefit by the spill occurred on a large scale, especially on the high Disaster Recovery  seas.