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Sorbent-based devices for the removal of spilled oil from water: a review

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Always, oil spills do cause serious and dire consequences for the environment, nature, and society that it consumes much time and socio-economic resources to overcome such consequences. Oil spills, hence, posed a big challenge in searching the advanced technologies and devices to recover spilled oil rapidly and efficiently. Indeed, sorbents have been found to play an extremely critical role in the spilled-oil remediation processes. Recently, a large number of various advanced sorbents and sorbent-based oil-collecting devices/technologies have been developed to enhance the oil-recovery capacity. Therefore, it is necessary to have a comprehensive assessment of the application of sorbent-based oil-collecting devices/technologies in recovering spilled oil. Due to this reason, this paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of the advanced technologies of the combination of sorbents and oil-collecting devices in the oil cleanup strategies. Two main oil-collecting devices such as booms and skimmers that could conjunct with sorbents were critically evaluated on the basis of the applicability and technological features, indicating that the capacity of oil spill recovery could achieve 90%. Moreover, oil-storage and oil-collecting devices were also completely mentioned. Last but not least, technical directions, concerns over the application of sorbents in oil recovery, and existing challenges relating to storage, transport, and disposal of used sorbents were discussed in detail. In the future, the automatic process of spilled oil recovery with the conjunction between advanced devices and environmentally friendly high-efficiency sorbents should be further investigated to minimize the environmental impacts, reduce the cost, as well as maximize the collected oil spill.

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• Effects of spilled oil on the ecosystem and society were completely mentioned.

• Affecting factors and criteria for the sorbent selection were introduced.

• Sorbent-based oil-collecting devices were thoroughly analyzed.

• Technical directions of sorbents in oil recovery were discussed in detail.

• Existing challenges and future orientation of sorbent-based devices were evaluated.

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Hoang, A.T., Nguyen, X.P., Duong, X.Q. et al. Sorbent-based devices for the removal of spilled oil from water: a review. Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 28876–28910 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-13775-z

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