The aerogel exhibits high compressive strength, hydrophobicity, and photothermal conversion, enabling rapid absorption of viscous crude oil. The increasing frequency of oil spills and industrial ...

With the rebound, the price of crude oil has reached a new five-week high. The increase by the price of crude oil came despite the release of a Energy Information Administration report ...

High water content is a major challenge ... This breakthrough opens up new opportunities for extracting highly viscous crude oil, he added.

"It is challenging for most conventional porous adsorbent materials to efficiently adsorb viscous oils," said ... even for ...

Crude oil prices have risen to a three-week high due to a larger-than-expected drop in U.S. oil inventories reported by the American Petroleum Institute. President Trump’s threat of tariffs on ...

Crude oil is a mixture of many different hydrocarbons, ranging from extremely volatile substances as light as gas to viscous and gummy particulate solids. Different fuel types are not “made ...