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No more water pollution from oil? Russian scientists create method to effectively clean petroleum products from industrial waste

By Jonny Tickle | RT | August 10, 2020

Scientists from Siberia have developed a technique that effectively removes petroleum from wastewater. Using a sorbent, the new system separates impurities, meaning waste released into the environment will cause much less damage.

The research, published by the United Kingdom’s IOP Publishing, was conducted by scientists based in Krasnoyarsk, a large Siberian city 3,300km east of Moscow.

According to Olga Dubrovskaya, associate professor at Siberia Federal University (SibFU), cultures “eat away” at oil, cleaning the water of “impurities.” Current wastewater treatment technologies only capture about 30 percent of dangerous substances, meaning that many toxicants enter the environment and cause significant environmental damage. By contrast, SibFU’s method removes over 99 percent of all surface and emulsified oil.

The newly developed technique was tested on heat and power equipment at Krasnoyarsk CHP-2, one of the largest thermal power plants in Siberia.

“Bacteria are placed in special spores in the structure of the sorbent,” Dubrovskaya explained. The bacteria sit dormant and activate when oil is detected, at which point the water purification begins.

August 11, 2020 - Posted by | Environmentalism |

3 Comments »

  1. There must still be lots of oil in the Gulf of Mexico……Maybe a good place to test this stuff…

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    Comment by brianharryaustralia | August 12, 2020 | Reply

  2. This seems to be excellent news. One hopes the petroleum industry will give the new technology due credit and application. (Just yesterday I read of a large oil spill from a Japanese tanker near (?) Mauritius (or is it Madagascar?); this “sorbent” should be rushed there….)

    Kudos to Russian prowess and to RT’s reporting. Will the UK’s “IOP Publishing” be subjected to economic sanctions for “consorting with the enemy”? Why not?–Pompeo (the dirty work done by Zio-populated US Treasury’s “Terrorist Financing Unit”) is sanctioning everything and anyone else he can get his pudgy hands on.

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    Comment by roberthstiver | August 12, 2020 | Reply

    • Pompeo is a disgrace to the USA. No integrity whatsoever….

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      Comment by brianharryaustralia | August 12, 2020 | Reply


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