The water is still there, but the oil is gone? !

The oil tap water is poured on the cloth, the water is still there, and the oil is "out". This magical cloth is called "oil-absorbing cotton", and it has been used in international oil spills.

Once a running car or a running machine has an oil spill, how to absorb the oil in the shortest time? The oil-absorbing cotton product developed by Shaoxing Yeying Textile Chemical Co., Ltd. solves this problem.

Recently, the reporter visited Yeying Textile Chemical Co., Ltd. in Shaoxing Paojiang Science and Technology Center. The CEO Lu Lin took a piece of seemingly ordinary cloth and spread it on the table, and poured oil and tap water. What is surprising is that the oil was absorbed by the cloth the moment it was poured, but it was not penetrated after being poured on tap water. Lu Lin told reporters that this is an "oil-absorbing cotton" with special effects, which can absorb oil but is not hydrophilic. This product has been exported to Australia and Brazil and other countries.

Lu Lin said that when he first developed this product, it came from an accident, because he often went in and out of the kitchen and workshop, he found it difficult to clean up the oil in these places. He thought, it would be great to have an environmentally friendly and efficient oil removal product. In 2007, he and the company's R&D staff decided to develop an efficient oil absorption product. After two years of research and development, "oil-absorbent cotton" made of special ultra-fine fibers has come out.

In 2010, the "Deepwater Horizon" drilling platform exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico near Louisiana, USA. The oil well below the platform leaked approximately 5,000 barrels of crude oil per day. This oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has attracted great attention from the international community. Many countries have sent equipment and personnel to the United States to help the United States deal with the pollution problem as soon as possible. Among the batch of equipment and products shipped to China in the past, there was the "Yeying Spinning" oil-absorbing cotton product. This oil-absorbing cotton product played a decisive role in this huge oil spill.

It is understood that the "oil-absorbent cotton" has good electrical insulation and chemical resistance, acid and alkali resistance, can quickly absorb oil up to 15 times its own weight, and has strong tensile strength, not easy to break, tear, and drop. Dust, fast oil absorption speed, suitable for large-area laying on water or ground.

In the product showroom of "Yeying Spinning Chemical", the reporter saw that after several years of development, this oil-absorbing product has derived a series of products such as oil-absorbing wipes, oil-absorbing sheets, oil-absorbing pillows, and oil-absorbing pads. Lu Lin said that this product is currently mainly used in the three major areas of rivers, lakes, seas, kitchens, and workshop machinery to clean up oil.

Lu Lin said that due to the good oil absorption effect, the Chongqing environmental protection department has also widely adopted the "oil absorbing cotton" produced by the company recently to clean up oil pollution in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Not long ago, the Shaoxing City Water Conservancy Department also praised the product after applying "oil-absorbing cotton". Related experts believe that if the "Yeying Spinning" oil-absorbing cotton product can be effectively promoted, it will play an important role in the treatment of urban environmental pollution. Our reporter Sun Changyun