CELLULOSE AND LIGNIN FIBERS MEDIATED REMOVAL OF THE OIL SPILL POLLUTION

Daniel ARGHIROPOL; Tiberiu RUSU; Miuța Rafila FILIP; Codruța SAROSI; Laura SILAGHI-DUMITRESCU; Gertrud-Alexandra PALTINEAN

doi:10.24193/subbchem.2025.3.14

CELLULOSE AND LIGNIN FIBERS MEDIATED REMOVAL OF THE OIL SPILL POLLUTION

Authors

Daniel ARGHIROPOL Faculty of Materials and Environmental Engineering, Technical University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Tiberiu RUSU Department of Environment Engineering and Entrepreneurship of Sustainable Development, Faculty of Materials and Environmental Engineering, Technical University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Miuța Rafila FILIP “Raluca Ripan” Institute for Research in Chemistry, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Codruța SAROSI “Raluca Ripan” Institute for Research in Chemistry, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2960-9832
Laura SILAGHI-DUMITRESCU “Raluca Ripan” Institute for Research in Chemistry, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9060-8463
Gertrud-Alexandra PALTINEAN “Raluca Ripan” Institute for Research in Chemistry, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Corresponding author: gertrud.paltinean@ubbcluj.ro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4000-1978

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbchem.2025.3.14

Keywords:

Petroleum hydrocarbons, vegetal absorbents, Cellulose fibers

Abstract

Vegetal matter like hemp wastes, peat and sawdust have fibrous and porous morphology if they are properly shredded as observed in SEM images. Polarized light microscopy has been used to study the crystalline structure of biomass and FTIR spectroscopy evidences their specific chemical bonds. Hemp wastes reveal porous husk remains of about 50 – 500 μm abundant in lignin and cellulose fibers lint having length of about 5 – 50 μm. Shredded peat reveal finer cellulose fibrous formation of about 50 μm length and lignin shell like particles of about 20 – 200 μm. Saw dust contains mainly cellulose fibers grouped in flake particles of about 700 μm with fringed edges. These samples were subjected to diesel and oil spills. The gravimetric test indicates the best specific absorption for diesel of 1.76 g/g obtained by sawdust and the lower value of 1.48 g/g was measured for hemp waste. The oil spill was better absorbed by sawdust having a specific absorption of 2.28 g/g and the weaker absorption was measured for hemp wastes around 1.66 g/g. The lower values measured for peat are caused by the presence of quartz particles as forest soil impurity.

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STUDIA UBB CHEMIA, Volume 70 (LXX), No. 3, September 2025

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2025-09-24

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ARGHIROPOL, D., RUSU, T., FILIP, M. R., SAROSI, C., SILAGHI-DUMITRESCU, L., & PALTINEAN, G.-A. (2025). CELLULOSE AND LIGNIN FIBERS MEDIATED REMOVAL OF THE OIL SPILL POLLUTION. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Chemia, 70(3), 201–212. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbchem.2025.3.14