National Science Foundation<\/a> awarded Sudipta Seal a $67,000 grant that will help the professor turn waste material, commonly referred to as flyash, into a cleaning agent. Seal will modify the flyash so that it absorbs oil and can be delivered to a coal-burning facility and re-used.<\/p>\nThe flyash will be safe, preserve the oil\u2019s energy-generating capabilities and be reusable once the oil is burned off.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a completely green process very cost effective and easy to scale up,\u201d said Seal, who has been studying the characteristics of flyash for more than a decade as part of his research on rare earth nanoparticles.<\/p>\n
Seal is director of Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½\u2019s Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis and NanoScience Technology Centers and a professor of mechanical, materials and aerospace engineering.<\/p>\n
Larry Hench, a renowned ceramic materials professor who conducts special projects for Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½, will work with Seal to develop the flyash and prepare a process for deployment that can then be licensed to a commercial partner.<\/p>\n
They envision that the flyash will be retrieved from the water in a low-cost mesh packaging material and then transported to a coal-burning power plant or another facility where the oil will fuel production processes.<\/p>\n
The flyash has also shown the ability to clump oil that has already washed up on shore, enabling it to be easily collected and, again, re-used.<\/p>\n
Since the Deepwater Horizon spill began in April, NSF has funded 65 of the rapid response grants to researchers across the country addressing all aspects of the clean-up.<\/p>\n
The grants are deployed in times of natural or accidental disasters to quickly engage the world\u2019s best scientists and engineers to help search for solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Specially treated waste material from electric power plants will soon be used to clean up oil in the Gulf thanks to the ingenuity of a Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ professor. The National Science Foundation awarded Sudipta Seal a $67,000 grant that will help the professor turn waste material, commonly referred to as flyash, into a cleaning agent. Seal will modify…","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":14868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-14862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-science-technology"],"yoast_head":"\n
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