NATURAL OIL SORBENTS

1. Spirulina sp. and Scenedesmus abundans

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3482444/
Sorption Capacity:
Spirulina sp. – 12-14 g crude oil per g sorbent
Scenedesmus abundans – 12-14 g crude oil per g sorbent
2. Groundnut husk and Plaintain peels
https://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=86190
Sorption Capacity:
Groundnut husk - 0.055 g crude oil per g sorbent
Plaintain peels -0.056 g crude oil per g sorbent
3. Sugarcane Bagasse
https://www.intechopen.com/books/sugarcane-technology-and-research/sugarcane-bagasse-
as-potentially-low-cost-biosorbent
Sorption Capacity:
Sugarcane Bagasse – 0.6 g crude oil per g sorbent
4. Fruiting Macro-fungus Auricularia polytricha
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0095162
Sorption Capacity:
Auricularia polytricha – 0.398 g crude oil per g sorbent
5. Cotton, Corn stalk, and 1 cotton: 1 corn stalk compost
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269038730_Agricultural_waste_as_a_biosorbent_fo
r_oil_spills
Sorption Capacity:
Cotton – 37.9+-2.6 g crude oil per g sorbent
Corn stalk – 23.9+-4.3 g crude oil per g sorbent
Compost – 31.3+-3.9 g crude oil per g sorbent
6. Banana peel
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/abc4/43aea949f2d5fc203c2d4ce1c91c0f07c1f7.pdf
Sorption Capacity:
Banana peel – .727 g crude oil per g sorbent
7. Cocoa peel
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/300/1/012066/pdf
Sorption capacity:
Cocoa peel – 1.607 g crude oil per g sorbent
8. Pomelo peel
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098
/rsos.181823&hl=en&sa=T&oi=ucasa&ct=ufr&ei=etaMXYzcGsK0yQST2Je4DA&scisig=AAGBfm2C
Oal4OMrtRcRpyGvg64NC7lOMkg
Sorption Capacity:
Pomelo peel – 49.8 g crude oil per g sorbent
 9. Pomegranate peel
https://avestia.com/FFHMT2018_Proceedings/files/paper/FFHMT_159.pdf
Sorption Capacity:
Pomegranate peel – 2.316 g crude oil per g sorbent
10. Cork and Cotton fiber
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256115014_Cork_Sorbents_for_Aquatic_Oil_Spills_
Clean_Up
Sorption Capacity:
Cork – 5.3 +- 0.4 g crude oil per g sorbent
Cotton fiber – 8.8 +- 0.5 g crude oil per g sorbent
11. Durian peel
http://mitec.unikl.edu.my/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/7.-OIL-REMOVAL-USING-DURIAN-
PEEL-WASTES-EFFECT-OF-ADSORBENT-CONDITION-MJIT-Volume-1-No-1-56-61.pdf
Sorption Capacity:
Durian peel - .7734 g crude oil per g sorbent
12. Chestnut shell
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S138358661932979X
Sorption Capacity:
Chestnut shell - 24 g crude oil per g sorbent