Using Polypropylene Needle Punch Nonwoven Sorbents as the Interceptor for Oil in Static and Dynamic Water Experiments

Water is the source of life, so preserving it from various pollutants is very important, especially oil pollutants as these expose societies to many environmental problems and economic losses as well as harming human health alike.

Preserving water from oil pollutants as well as cleaning and recovering oil immediately after the spill was crucial as an important economic source, thus several methods of cleaning water were developed.

A research study was conducted at Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Damascus University to produce high-performance membranes with different thicknesses and fibre diameters through the use of polypropylene fusion technique.

The main objective of the study was to determine the impact of pore size and thickness of sorbents besides the influence of oil properties on the performance of sorbents used as an interceptor barrier for oils in static and dynamic water experiments. polypropylene needle punch sorbents were used.

The research focused on the use of polypropylene as a polymeric material for the production of fusion nanofilm as a material with unique advantages in terms of low density and non-high cost, in addition to the easy absorption of contaminated substances and their inability to absorb water. The test was carried out through an experimental body that mimics the weather conditions to which seawater is exposed to show the results in terms of high efficiency in the absorption of petroleum materials within static and dynamic water conditions at different speeds.