Density adsorption

FIG. 22-38 Tbe variation of adsorption density, oil-droplet contact angle, and oil-extraction recovery of bematite as a function of pH. To convert gram-moles per square centimeter to pound-moles per square foot, multiply hy 2.048. [From Raghavan and Fuerstenau, Am. Inst. Cbem. Eng. Symp. Ser., 71(150), 59... 

Figure 7 shows the results of measurements of adsorption density by Parsonage, etal. [77] on a series of eighteen block copolymers, with poly(2-vinylpyridine) [PVP] anchors and polystyrene [PS] buoys, adsorbed from toluene (selective for PS) of variable molecular weight in each block. The results are presented as the reciprocal square of Eq. 28, that is, as a dimensionless number density of chains ct (d/Rg A)-2. For all but the copolymers of highest asymmetry, Eq. 28 is in good agreement with the data of Fig. 7. The high asymmetry copolymers are in the regime of the data of curves (a) and (c) of Fig. 3 where the large relative size...

The effects of calcium on polymer-solvent and polymer-surface interactions are dependent on polymer ionicity a maximum intrinsic viscosity and a minimum adsorption density as a function of polymer ionicity are obtained. For xanthan, on the other hand, no influence of specific polymer-calcium interaction is detected either on solution or on adsorption properties, and the increase in adsorption due to calcium addition is mainly due to reduction in electrostatic repulsion. The maximum adsorption density of xanthan is also found to be independent of the nature of the adsorbent surface, and the value is close to that calculated for a closely-packed monolayer of aligned molecules. 

Adsorption on Kaolinite. For kaolinite, the polymer adsorption density is strongly dependent on the solid/liquid ratio, S/L, of the clay suspension. As S/L increases, adsorption decreases. This S/L dependence cannot be due totally to autocoagulation of the clay particles since this dependence is observed even in the absence of Ca2+ at pH 7 and at low ionic strength where auto-coagulation as measured by the Bingham yield stress is relatively weak (21). Furthermore, complete dispersion of the particles in solvent by ultra-sonication before addition of... 

The adsorption of xanthan is increased by calcium but to a less extent than that for HP AM. The increased adsorption seems to be due mainly to the effects of screening of polymer and surface charges by calcium, and the maximum adsorption density is equivalent to that induced by monovalent ions. 

The maximum adsorption density of semi-rigid xanthan is not very sensitive to the nature of the adsorbent surface provided that the surface has a homogeneous adsorption site density. This maximum level is close to the value calculated for a closely-packed monolayer of xanthan molecules. 

For polyacrylamides, as a function of polymer ionicity, the presence of calcium induces a maximum in intrinsic viscosity and a minimum in adsorption density on siliceous minerals. This holds important practical implications in EOR since an optimal polymer ionicity can be selected according to field conditions. 

The earlier models (2-5) dealt primarily with the conformation of a single molecule at an interface and apply at very low adsorption densities. More recent treatments (6-10) take into account polymer-polymer and polymer-solvent interactions and have led to the emergence of a fairly consistent picture of the adsorption process. For details of the statistical theories of polymer adsorption, the reader is referred to publications by Lipatov (11), Tadros (12) and Fleer and Scheutjens (13). 

G Relative polymer adsorption density defined by Equation 8 i An integer—the number of bound segments on a given molecule K Primary adsorption constant... 

The adsorption of fully and partially hydrolyzed (88%) polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) on 190-1lOOnm monodisperse polystyrene latex particles was investigated. The effect of molecular weight was investigated for 190 nm-size particles using the serum replacement adsorption and desorption methods. The adsorption density at the adsorption-isotherm plateau followed the relationships for the fully hydrolyzed... 

PVA and TaM -for the 88%-hydrolyzed PVA. The same dependence was found for the adsorbed layer thickness measured by viscosity and photon correlation spectroscopy. Extension of the adsorption isotherms to higher concentrations gave a second rise in surface concentration, which was attributed to multilayer adsorption and incipient phase separation at the interface. The latex particle size had no effect on the adsorption density however, the thickness of the adsorbed layer increased with increasing particle size, which was attributed to changes in the configuration of the adsorbed polymer molecules. The electrolyte stability of the bare and PVA-covered particles showed that the bare particles coagulated in the primary minimum and the PVA-covered particles flocculated in the secondary minimum and the larger particles were less stable than the smaller particles. 

Table III shows that the adsorption densities at the plateau region increase with increasing PVA molecular weight, despite the distribution of molecular weights for each sample. The adsorption density of Vinol 350 is given in parentheses because of the difficulty in establishing its exact value. For the fully hydrolyzed PVA s, which show no specific interactions with polystyrene surfaces, the increase in adsorption density is proportional to the 0.5 power of the molecular weight, in good agreement with theory, which predicts for weak surface interactions under...

Table III. Adsorption density at the apparent plateau for the different PVA s...

Effect of PVA Molecular Weight on Adsorbed Layer Thickness. Figure 4 shows the variation of reduced viscosity with volume fraction for the bare and PVA-covered 190nm-size PS latex particles. For the bare particles, nre(j/ is independent of and the value of the Einstein coefficient is ca. 3.0. For the covered particles, rired/ t increases linearly with tp. Table IV gives the adsorbed layer thicknesses calculated from the differences in the intercepts for the bare and covered particles and determined by photon correlation spectroscopy, as well as the root-mean-square radii of gyration of the free polymer coil in solution. The agreement of the adsorbed layer thicknesses determined by two independent methods is remarkable. The increase in adsorbed layer thickness follows the same dependence on molecular weight as the adsorption density, i.e., for the fully hydrolyzed PVA s and... 

Influence of the Surface Concentration of BSA. Compared to the corrected moving boundary electrophoretic mobility of BSA in solution, the mobility of BSA adsorbed onto glass is considerably faster at all ionic strengths at 1.96 pg/cm2 and somewhat faster at lower ionic strengths 1.38 pg/cm2. However, at lower adsorption densities (1.05 and 0.64 pg/cm2), the adsorbed BSA moves more slowly in the applied electric field than BSA in moving boundary electrophoresis under otherwise identical conditions, and at the lowest surface adsorption (0.64 pg/cm2) the mobility of the adsorbed BSA are even somewhat slower than in cellulose acetate gel at all conditions of ionic strength investigated. 

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