science Fair project ARTIFACT 4
My junior year my science fair project was finding a way to remove oil from Saltwater with out the using chemicals.
Using chemicals to remove oil from saltwater makes the pH levels in the water increase which causes more problems then it solves. The use of chemicals also is very expensive to produce and buy. I wanted to find a cheap way to remove oil from saltwater with the least amount of damaging side affects. I tested a couple of things to find the most effective way of removing oil from seawater. I used hay,a sponge and 100 percent cotton. The way I tested this was filling a bowl of 3/4 saltwater and 1/4 of oil and I would set the object and let it sit for a minute then I would pull out the object and I would then measure the left over oil and water.
I found that hay was the most effective was using hay because the hay had fibers that held on to the oil. This project got me first 1 in ACLC for the bio class.
This project to the science fair in Oakland.
Using chemicals to remove oil from saltwater makes the pH levels in the water increase which causes more problems then it solves. The use of chemicals also is very expensive to produce and buy. I wanted to find a cheap way to remove oil from saltwater with the least amount of damaging side affects. I tested a couple of things to find the most effective way of removing oil from seawater. I used hay,a sponge and 100 percent cotton. The way I tested this was filling a bowl of 3/4 saltwater and 1/4 of oil and I would set the object and let it sit for a minute then I would pull out the object and I would then measure the left over oil and water.
I found that hay was the most effective was using hay because the hay had fibers that held on to the oil. This project got me first 1 in ACLC for the bio class.
This project to the science fair in Oakland.