CELERINET AÑO 7 VOL 2

CELERINET JULY - DECEMBER 2019
DISCUSSION
Fig. 10. Infrared absorbance spectrum in the interval of 3300-
2800 cm-1 of MB, MC, MD, ME, MF, MG, MH, and MI.
With the development of this methodology,
it is noticed that the petroleum is removed
from the water; however, the solution leaves
rests of alcohol, and nanotubes. If we apply
this methodology to the ocean to clean the oil
from the ocean that had an oil spill, the rest of
alcohol that the solution leaves will evaporate
by the time and the rest of carbon nanotubes
will enter into the cycle of carbon. In addition,
alcohol and carbon are less polluting than oil.
The design planned to solve oil spills based
on the methodology applied in this experiment
is the one that is present in the Fig. 12.
Fig. 11. Infrared absorbance spectrum in the interval of 3300-
2800 cm-1 of MB1, MC1, ME1, MF1, MG1, MH1, MI1, MJ1, and
MK1.
Analyzing the samples from Table 1, we can
see in Fig. 10 that in all the cases of solution
the oil disappeared from the sample of water
in around 95%. Additionally, we can see
that there is not much difference if we work
with salty water with a concentration of 35%.
In Fig. 11 is observable that the peaks of
petroleum lowered a lot. Comparing the rest of
the graphs of absorbance of the samples with
salty water is more possible to see in Fig. 11
that the oil disappeared majorly. Also, the best
time on the ultrasound for the solution could be
around 15 minutes because we do not want a
very homogenous solution because we want to
preserve the form of the nanotubes.
Fig. 12. Prototype design that could be applied to clean the oil
from the seawater.
This design purposes the use of giant mobile
barrels with the solution of carbon nanotubes in
complement with a boat that has a retractable
metal mesh that works as a filter to clean the
water.
The way of work of this prototype of boat
is that the solution pump supplies the solution
of nanotubes while the metal mesh filter is not
retractable to let the nanotubes react with the
petroleum, then the metal mesh filter does the
work and captures the petroleum. There are
an infinity ways to apply this methodology
to solve the problem in a big scale; the only
impediment that could be present is the cost of
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