Sorption and desorption of crude oil components from a highly absorptive medium

加拿大的石油和天然气（O&G）行业是加拿大经济的主要驱动力。每年，该部门产生 超过520亿加元的加拿大国内生产总值和雇用约。55万加拿大人在全球范围内， 加拿大出口的四分之一来自O&G部门。今天，加拿大出口。3M桶 预计到2030年将翻一番。虽然O&G部门的经济效益是明确的，但它是 重要的是，O&G活动不会对环境产生负面影响。尽管有最佳做法， 泄漏到水生环境中是不可避免的。管理有害环境影响的程度 在某种程度上取决于补救技术的有效性。Imbitive Technologies一直致力于 在全球范围内销售吸收材料，Imbiber Beads，超过15年，是原油中的有效工具 溢漏和清理应对方案。尽管他们在全球取得了成功，但仍然有两个重要的科学问题。 仍不清楚的问题。第一，原油组分对吸水器的吸附动力学是什么 第二，被珠捕获的吸收组分是否可以在升高的温度下释放。 温度？通过与Imbitive Technologies的合作，我们建议解决这两个重要的问题。 科学数据缺口吸附动力学将通过将目标化学品暴露于珠粒来阐明， 随时间测量水中分析物的浓度。目标化学品的热解吸， 通过小心地加热含有吸附的化学品的珠粒，捕获并 分析来自吸附介质的蒸汽。这项研究对吸饮技术的好处是， 将使他们能够销售一种产品，关闭O&G化学品意外排放到 环境这将是唯一一个可以提出这一要求的产品。

Canada's oil and gas (O&G) industry is a major driver of Canada's economy. Annually, this sector generates more than $52B of Canada's Gross Domestic Product and employs ca. 550,000 Canadians. On a global scale, one quarter of all Canadian exports are attributable to the O&G sector. Today, Canada exports ca. 3M barrels per day of oil and projected to double by 2030. While the economic benefits of the O&G sector are clear, it is important that O&G activities do not negatively impact the environment. Despite best practices, chemical spills into the aquatic environment are inevitable. Managing the extent of deleterious environmental effects from spills is governed, in part, by the efficacy of remediative technologies. Imbibitive Technologies has been marketing an absorbent material, Imbiber Beads, globally for over 15 years that is an effective tool in crude oil spill and clean-up response scenarios. Despite their global success, there are still two important scientific questions that remain unclear. First, what are the sorption kinetics of crude oil components to the Imbiber Beads and, second, can the absorbed components captured by the beads be released under elevated temperatures? In collaboration with Imbibitive Technologies, we are proposing to address these two important science data-gaps. Sorption kinetics will be elucidated by exposing the targeted chemicals to the beads and over time measuring the concentration of analytes in the water. Thermal desorption of targeted chemicals from the beads will be achieved by carefully heating the beads containing the sorbed chemicals, trapping and analyzing the vapors from a sorptive media. The benefit of this research to Imbibitive Technologies is that it will enable them to market a product that closes the loop on O&G chemicals accidentally discharged into the environment. This will be the only product that can make this claim.