Effective sorbing polymer materials for collecting oil and oil products

Effective sorbents based on nonwoven polymer materials have been synthesized for cleaning up oil and oil products spills from the water surface. The influence of structural characteristics of materials (a width of fabrics, a fiber diameter, a density of fiber packing in fabric) on their sorption capacity has been revealed. It has been shown that the materials based on polypropylene and polyether fibers exhibited the high sorption capacities in respect to oil and oil products.