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May 20, 2013

Paul Painter discusses his method of separating oil from sand after environmental disasters.

Paul Painter, president and co-founder of IL Fuels LLC and a professor of polymer science and engineering in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Penn State University discusses his AIR project that uses ionic liquids to separate oil from sand after environmental disasters.

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