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    The document proposes research to optimize oil spill remediation using a multifunctional engineered nanoparticle (ENP). The ENP would have an iron oxide core surrounded by manganese oxide nanowires coated with silica gel and titanium dioxide. This ENP would have selective adsorption, a wide absorption range, magnetic properties, and photo catalytic effects to remove oil, metals, and degrade organic compounds from spills. The research plan involves synthesizing and characterizing the ENP, testing its oil absorption in labs and in-situ, and demonstrating its effectiveness and low toxicity for oil spill cleanup.

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    The document proposes research to optimize oil spill remediation using a multifunctional engineered nanoparticle (ENP). The ENP would have an iron oxide core surrounded by manganese oxide nanowires coated with silica gel and titanium dioxide. This ENP would have selective adsorption, a wide absorption range, magnetic properties, and photo catalytic effects to remove oil, metals, and degrade organic compounds from spills. The research plan involves synthesizing and characterizing the ENP, testing its oil absorption in labs and in-situ, and demonstrating its effectiveness and low toxicity for oil spill cleanup.

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    Research Proposal: Optimum ENP for Oil Spill

    Remediation
    Literature Review Summary and Knowledge Gap
    Oil spill contains crude oil, small amount of heavy metal, refined and
    unrefined petroleum oil(Intertek, 2015). Due to these toxic chemicals, oil spill
    is an environmental issue and needs great attention because of its adverse
    effective in aquatic life and ecological balance. Use of nanomaterials in oil
    spill remediation is a novice approach. Oil and water separation requires
    technology with unique wettability, super hydrophobic and oleophilic surface
    property. This can be achieved with surface modification using nanoparticles.
    These types of modified nanomaterials will be able to absorb oil or toxic
    organic compounds from the contaminated area. The literature review
    explored four nanotechnologies that has been used in oil spill clean-up
    process(Mahajan, 2011). The MnO nanowires and carbon-nanotube-stainless
    steel mesh are capable of selective absorption with wide range of oils(Lee,
    Johnson, Drelich, & Yap, 2011; Yuan et al., 2008). Magnetic nanocomposites
    absorb small range of oil components but they have a quick absorption rate.
    Moreover because of their magnetic property they can separate heavy
    metals from the crude oil. Other than oil-water separation with absorption
    process, toxic oil components can be degraded to harmless carbon
    compound using photosynthesis TiO 2 nanomaterials(Ziolli & Jardim, 2002).
    Little have been known about the toxicity of these technologies and some of
    them are hard to implement in massive oil spill. The literatures also lacked
    exploring multifunctional synergies of the nanomaterial for spill remediation.
    Individually these approaches may seem incompetent in many ways
    however, if the property of these nanotechnologies can be combined, the oil
    spill remediation may no longer be a problem for the environment.

    Objectives
    The objective is to optimize the oil spill remediation process using
    engineered nanoparticle (ENP) with multifunctional synergies. This
    nanomaterial will preliminary be made of an iron oxide core-shell surrounded
    by MnO nanowire. The nanowire will be coated with a layer of silica gel and
    TiO2. This modified ENP will have selective adsorption ability, wide range of oil
    absorption capacity. It will have magnetic property for quick treatment in the
    contaminated area (In-situ treatment). The research will also involve in large
    scale in-situ implementation method that show little to no toxic effect due to
    the synthesized ENP.

    Workplan
    ENP Synthesize
    The research will start with synthesizing the ENP with three functional
    property. A MnO nanowire will be grown by hydrothermal method. The
    nanowire will have a Fe3O4 core and MnO shell. A silica gel coating will be on
    the nanowire followed by a TiO2 coating using sol-gel method.

    Characterization
    The characterization of the synthesized ENP will be done using X-ray
    diffraction, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and high resolution-TEM
    respectively(Stefan et al., 2014). The stability test and surface tension will be
    calculated using DELVO equations. The composition of the sample will be
    characterized with Energy Dispersion X-ray(EDX). The characterization will
    also involve testing the magnetic property. The magnetic force will be
    determined with simple weight balance and digital caliper(Gomes de Souza,
    Marins, Rodrigues, & Pinto, 2010). The weight variation with a neodymium
    N42 magnet (external Gauss strength and energy density equal to 13.2kG
    and 42 MGOe, respectively) will be used for magnetic force measurement

    using Fm = mg . Oxidation/photo catalytic effect will be measured using UV

    lamp (365nm) as an excitation source and absorption measurement will be


    taken from UV/VIS spectrometer(Guo et al., 2011). The water contact angle
    on the surface and oleophilicity will be determined using commercial
    CAM200 optical system by sessile drop method(Zhang et al., 2017). During
    this stage the toxic effect of the used NP will also be analyzed on bacteria
    and rats.
    Oil Absorption Experiments (Lab scale and in-situ)
    As the characterization completes, lab scale experiments will follow with
    various types of oil. These experiments will illustrate the efficiency of the
    ENPs and what types of organic/inorganic compound and oil can be
    separated. The oil absorption property will be measured from the mass

    g mt m0
    variation before and after the treatment using Q ()
    g
    =
    m0 (Zhang et al.,

    2017).These experiments will also show the limitation of the technology.


    However, once the experiments are successful this ENP will be used in actual
    oil spill to check its large-scale effect.

    A statement of novelty and significance of the research


    Multifunctionality are still hypothetical in the field of nanotechnology
    especially in oil spill remediation but very effective. This research will
    synthesize a nanomaterial that will have multifunctionality that will improve
    performance of oil clean-up process. The superhydrophobic and oleophilic
    MnO nanowire will absorb wide range of oil components and TiO 2
    nanoparticle will oxidize remaining organic compound to harmless
    component. Crude oil contains small amount of toxic heavy metals(Intertek,
    2015) which are often stayed untreated with traditional clean-up method.
    The magnetic property of the metal oxide in the ENP will separate them from
    contaminated area. Also after the treatment, the ENP can be easily removed
    from the treated area using a magnet. The significance of this research is
    that instead of using various clean-up methods this ENPs alone will be able to
    remove any toxic chemicals from any kind of oil spills.

    Reference
    1. Gomes de Souza, F., Marins, J. A., Rodrigues, C. H. M., & Pinto, J. C.
    (2010). A Magnetic Composite for Cleaning of Oil Spills on Water.
    Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, 295(10), 942-948.
    doi:10.1002/mame.201000090
    2. Guo, M. Y., Fung, M. K., Fang, F., Chen, X. Y., Ng, A. M. C., Djurii, A. B.,
    & Chan, W. K. (2011). ZnO and TiO2 1D nanostructures for
    photocatalytic applications. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 509(4),
    1328-1332. doi:http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2010.10.028
    3. Intertek. (2015). SARA Heavy Oil Analysis.
    4. Lee, C. H., Johnson, N., Drelich, J., & Yap, Y. K. (2011). The performance
    of superhydrophobic and superoleophilic carbon nanotube meshes in
    wateroil filtration. Carbon, 49(2), 669-676.
    doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2010.10.016
    5. Mahajan, Y. R. (2011). Nanotechnology-Based Solutions for Oil Spills.
    Nanotech Insights(January 2011).
    6. Stefan, M., Pana, O., Leostean, C., Bele, C., Silipas, D., Senila, M., &
    Gautron, E. (2014). Synthesis and characterization of Fe3O4TiO2 core-
    shell nanoparticles. Journal of Applied Physics, 116(11), 114312.
    doi:10.1063/1.4896070
    7. Yuan, J., Liu, X., Akbulut, O., Hu, J., Suib, S. L., Kong, J., & Stellacci, F.
    (2008). Superwetting nanowire membranes for selective absorption.
    Nat Nano, 3(6), 332-336.
    doi:http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v3/n6/suppinfo/nnano.2008.1
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    8. Zhang, T., Kong, L., Dai, Y., Yue, X., Rong, J., Qiu, F., & Pan, J. (2017).
    Enhanced oils and organic solvents absorption by polyurethane foams
    composites modified with MnO2 nanowires. Chemical Engineering
    Journal, 309, 7-14. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2016.08.085
    9. Ziolli, R. L., & Jardim, W. F. (2002). Photocatalytic decomposition of
    seawater-soluble crude-oil fractions using high surface area colloid
    nanoparticles of TiO2. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A:
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