An inexpensive and reusable oil-catching sponge has been developed to reclaim high-temp fracking effluents.
Pavani Cherukupally
Pavani is a research associate at the Imperial College London. She works on addressing global water, environmental, and public health challenges through new materials and process development.
Sponging up oil droplets from Arctic wastewater
A re-usable sponge can capture and recover crude oil droplets from cold water to generate clean water in a fragile ecosystem.