Oil and vapors absorbed by nonwoven wipes
Sep 16, 2010
Specialty Fabrics Review - There is no better testing ground for Texas Tech University’s Fibertect®, a cotton nonwoven wipe with an activated carbon core, than Grand Isle, La., where crude oil washing up on pristine white sand beaches is destroying tourism and making cleanup workers ill. Fibertect’s first field test showed that it successfully absorbed up to 15 times its weight in oil and also adsorbed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which may be one component of toxic vapors reportedly sickening cleanup crews.
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