MINERAL ABSORBENT EFFIECIENCY ON THE PETROLEUM SPILLS REMOVAL

Daniel ARGHIROPOL; Tiberiu RUSU; Miuța Rafila FILIP; Laura SILAGHI-DUMITRESCU; Stanca CUC; Gertrud Alexandra PALTINEAN

doi:10.24193/subbchem.2025.3.15

MINERAL ABSORBENT EFFIECIENCY ON THE PETROLEUM SPILLS REMOVAL

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.
Laura SILAGHI-DUMITRESCU “Raluca Ripan” Institute for Research in Chemistry, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9060-8463
Stanca CUC “Raluca Ripan” Institute for Research in Chemistry, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9812-695X
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.2025.3.15

Keywords:

Oil spills, mineral absorbents, zeolite, clays

Abstract

Mineral absorbents are of great interest for the oil spills removal. Therefore, current investigation tests the removal ability of three commercial products: Zeolit Spectrum, Favisan Clay and professional oil spills removal Adabline II OS. SEM investigation reveals that all compounds relies on small phyllosilicates particles of about 1 – 5 µm accompanied by fewer coarser fractions of 100 – 150 µm. Mineralogical optical microscopy reveals that Zeolit Spectrum and Adabline II OS contains mainly Clinoptilolite while Favisan Clay contains mostly Kaolinite (1 – 10 µm) with some traces of Biotite (5 – 30 µm). These products were tested on diesel and burnt oil spills. The gravimetric measurements reveal the best specific absorption for Clinoptilolite of about 1.26 g/g for diesel and 1.69 g/g for oil while Kaolinite has only 1.04 g/g for Diesel and 1.37 g/g for oil spill. The fact was proved by FTIR spectroscopy revealing the increase of the C=C and C-O. The absorption mechanism was observed by SEM revealing the diesel and oil penetration within the finest mineral clusters, Clinoptilolite being more efficient than Kaolinite which was slightly reluctant because of its hydrophilic nature.

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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., SILAGHI-DUMITRESCU, L., CUC, S., & PALTINEAN, G. A. (2025). MINERAL ABSORBENT EFFIECIENCY ON THE PETROLEUM SPILLS REMOVAL. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Chemia, 70(3), 213–226. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbchem.2025.3.15