. 2012, 43(17): 4-0.
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This research investigates the use of four kinds of natural biomass materials, namely wheat straw, corn stalks, sawdust and the dregs. The influence factors on oil-adsorbing properties were studied, such as particle size, adsorption time and oil types. The paper also studied the water absorption of the four kinds of materials in order to investigate the selectivity of water and oil. In addition, oil retain capacity was evaluated too. On the crude oil adsorption test ,sawdust and wheat straw have good oil absorption performance within the size range of 0.25 ~ 0.83 mm, and oil sorption capacities are approximately 5.79 g oil / g sorbent and 6.02 g oil / g sorbent, followed by corn stalks, oil absorption of the absorbing material between 0.15 ~ 0.18 mm is 5.02 g/g, the dregs of oil absorption between 0.18 ~ 0.20 mm is only 2.37 g/g. Comparison of four kinds of materials on the adsorption properties of organic compounds toluene and vegetable oil, the adsorption effect of the crude oil is better than vegetable oil and toluene. The four kinds of materials all have a certain amount of oil retention capacity, the oil retention capacity of sawdust is highest and oil-water ratio is greater than 1. Besides, natural biomass materials are solid wastes, they can be directly used as fuel after oil absorption, to achieve the purpose of waste by waste. The results show that natural biomass materials show a high performance as a low cost and environmental friendly sorbents for the removal oil from water. Natural biomass materials will have better development and application prospects in the area of oily wastewater treatment.