“…The use of conventional techniques such as gravity settling, coagulation, flotation, flocculation, ozonation, and chemical methods are found ineffective for treating such oily water mixtures due to high operational cost and the problem of getting secondary pollutants as by-products [5,6,7]. Among many other oil-water separation techniques, membrane base separation technology is becoming much more versatile due to its simplicity, high operational efficiency, and environmental friendliness [8,9]. Different methods such as phase inversion [10,11,12], coating [13,14,15], sol-gel [16], and electrospinning [17,18,19,20,21] are being used to produce these membranes.…”