Sugar based amphiphiles: easily accessible and efficient crude oil spill thickening agents
作者:Malick Samateh、Adiyala Vidyasagar、Swapnil R. Jadhav、George John
DOI:10.1039/c6ra21871g
日期:——
complicated due to its complex composition. All of the current PSG methods are demonstrated with refined oils or do not employ eco-friendly methods like enzymatic synthesis. Our current project entails studying sugar alcohol-derived amphiphiles for their phase-selective gelation in crude oil; the PSGs are derived from renewable, benign materials and synthesized via a simple, single-step, enzymatic
Sugar-Derived Phase-Selective Molecular Gelators as Model Solidifiers for Oil Spills
作者:Swapnil R. Jadhav、Praveen Kumar Vemula、Rakesh Kumar、Srinivasa R. Raghavan、George John
DOI:10.1002/anie.201002095
日期:2010.10.11
Phase‐selective gelators were synthesized from sugar alcohols using biocatalysis. The gelators exhibited an unprecedented ability to phase‐selectively gel only organic liquids including crude‐oil fractions in the presence of water at room temperature. Oil can be recovered from the gelled phase by heating and distillation. Thus this class of materials may be useful in recovering oil from spills.