英语科普小知识 棉花可用于处理石油泄漏.docVIP

With the Deepwater Horizon disaster emphasizing the need for better ways of cleaning up oil spills, scientists are reporting that unprocessed, raw cotton may be an ideal, ecologically friendly answer, with an amazing ability to?sop up（吸水）?oil. Their report, which includes some of the first scientific data on unprocessed, raw cottons use in crude oil spills, appears in the ACS journal Industrial Engineering Chemistry Research. ? Seshadri Ramkumar and colleagues note that a particular need exists for oil-spill?sorbents（吸着剂）?that are abundantly available at relatively low cost, sustainable and biodegradable. There have been extensive studies on fibers such as barley straw,?kapok（木棉）?and wool -- but big gaps in knowledge about their basic crude oil-uptake mechanisms and no data on unprocessed raw cotton. Ramkumars team decided to fill those gaps with research on the oil sorption properties of low micronaire cotton, a form of unprocessed cotton with relatively less commercial value. ? They report that each pound of the material has the ability to sop up and hold more than 30 pounds of crude oil. The cotton fibers take up oil in multiple ways, including both absorption and adsorption (in which oil sticks to the outer surface of the cotton fiber). In contrast to synthetic sorbents, raw cotton with its high crude oil sorption capacity and positive environmental footprint make it an ecologically friendly sorbent for oil spill cleanups, the report concludes. ? The authors acknowledge funding from the Texas State Support Program of Cotton Incorporated and The CH Foundation. 强调需要更好的方法来清理漏油的深水地平线灾难，科学家们报告说，未处理，原棉，具有惊人的能力，吸干油（吸水），可能是一个理想的，生态友好的答案。他们的报告，其中包括一些未处理，原棉的使用原油泄漏的第一个科学数据，出现在ACS的期刊“工业与工程化学研究。 ? Seshadri RAMKUMAR同事注意到特别需要存在溢油吸附剂（吸着剂），大量以相对较低的成本，提供可持续和可生物降解的。已经有广泛的研究，如大麦秸秆，木棉（木棉）和羊毛纤维-但有很大的差距，他们的基本原油吸收机制和没有未处理原棉数据的知识。RAMKUMAR马克隆值低，形式相对较少的商业价值与未处理棉吸油性能的研究团队决定填补这些缺口。 ? 他们报告说，每一斤的材料有能力吸干，并持有超过30磅原油。棉纤维油以多种方式，其中包括吸收和吸附（油粘棉纤维的外表面）。“合成吸附剂相比，原棉与原油高吸附能力和积极的环境足迹，生态友好型吸附剂对石油泄