Novel Method of Oil/Water Separation Using Composite of Polymethylacrylamide Hydrogel-Coated Metal Mesh

Different compositions of hydrogels composed mathacrylamide homopolymer (60 and 90% PMAM) were prepared using the free radical polymerization technique, with without methylene bisacrylamide as crosslinker (0 3%). Several parameters properties studied to evaluate their performance oil/water separators. Many are used, such residual oil in water, water recovery, separation time, coated percentages, swelling parameters, mechanical properties, microscopic photographic images, scanning electron microscopy. The results showed that recovery (87-97), Separation efficiency (96.2-99.6 %), time (6-9.5 min.), percentages (18-23 content (70-97 tensile test (63-90 MPa). effect polymer crosslinking density, mesh pore size, composition on mentioned above also studied. 1000 micron composite is better than 500-micron composites.