Floating immiscible liquids

Floating immiscible liquids are suitable for controlling emissions of water-soluble organics. However, the effectiveness is temporary, estimated to be between one and two weeks. Some chemicals in water may prevent the formation of a monolayer, and wave action can destroy the monolayer effectiveness. 

A small amount of collector (surfactant) or other appropriate additive in the liquid may greatly increase adsorption (Shah and Lemlich, op. cit.). Column performance can also be improved by skimming the surface of the liquid pool or, when possible, by removing adsorbed solute in even a tenuous foam overflow. Alternatively, an immiscible liquid can be floated on top. Then the concentration gradient in the tall pool of main hquid, plus the trapping action of the immiscible layer above it, will yield a combination of bubble fractionation and solvent sublation. 

Floating oil layers and surfactants constitute a liquid alternative to floating solid objects. An immiscible liquid floating on the surface has been found to be effective in reducing air emissions by up to 90 percent. However, windy conditions can result in a 50 to 80 percent loss of efficiency (University of Arkansas and Louisiana State University, 1985). 

Fig. 13. Capillary equilibrium of a drop 2 floating on an immiscible liquid 3 1 is the vapor...

A mixture of two immiscible liquids is fed into a decanter. The heavier Hquid a settles to the bottom of the tank. The Hghter liquid P forms a layer on the top. The two interfaces are detected by floats and are controlled by manipulating the two flows andFp. 

Emulsion The apparent mixing of two immiscible liquids by the use of an emulsifier which breaks down one of the liquids into tiny droplets. The droplets of this liquid float suspended in the other liquid so that they do not separate out into different layers. 

Emulsion flotation is analogous to carrier flotation. Here, small-sized particles become attached to the surfaces of oil droplets (the carrier droplets). The carrier droplets attach to the air bubbles and the combined aggregates of small desired particles, carrier droplets, and air bubbles float to form the froth. An example is the emulsion flotation of submicrometre-sized diamond particles with isooctane. Emulsion flotation has also been applied to the flotation of minerals that are not readily wetted by water, such as graphite, sulfur, molybdenite, and coal [623]. Some oils used in emulsion flotation include mixed cresols (cresylic acid), pine oil, aliphatic alcohols, kerosene, fuel oil, and gas oil [623], A related use of a second, immiscible liquid to aid in particle separation is in agglomeration flocculation (see Section 5.6.4). 

A rectaiiKuinr block of height L and horizontal cross-.sectional area A floats at the interface between two immiscible liquids, as shown below. 

Solvent sublation involves the collection of the enriched material on the bubble surface in an immiscible liquid above the bulk liquid media. More specifically, it is a technique in which the material raised to the surface of a solution by flotation is collected and prevented from redispersing into the bulk phase. This is achieved by spreading a thin layer of an immiscible organic solvent on the surface of the solution which causes the floated material to dissolve or to become suspended. 

Two immiscible liquids are allowed to separate in a vessel. One liquid has a specific gravity of 0.936 the second liquid weights 9.63 Ib/gal. A block that is 9 in. by 9 in. by 9 in. and weights 25.8 lb is dropped into the vessel. Will the block float on the top, stop at the interface where the two liquids are separated, or sink What fraction of the volume of the block is in one or both of the liquids ... 

Not discussed here, but also equally feasible is the calculation of the equilibrium profiles of sessile and pendent lenticular configurations—for example, drops of an immiscible liquid floating on an interface (like oil on water) form a sessile lens as illustrated in Fig. 

Gravitational separation takes advantage of the well-known effect of density differences something that is less dense will float on something that is more dense. Therefore, if two immiscible liquids have significantly different densities, they can be separated by simply letting them settle, then draining the denser liquid out the bottom. Note that the key word here is immiscible, if the liquids are soluble in each other, then it is impossible to separate them by this method. 

At the current time, liquid precursor (solution/sol/slurry) coating techniques have been the most successful for the deposition of oxides, such as monazite (LaP04) and porous oxides (carbon-oxide mixtures) onto oxide fiber tows [178, 179, 191, 192]. Atypical fiber coater is shown in Figure 10a [193]. In the coating process, a lighter, immiscible liquid is floated on the surface of the coating precursor. The immiscible liquid is used to remove excess sol from the coated tow and it allows for the coating of individual filaments with... 

The majority of what we know in organic chemistry consists of what we have been taught. Underl5nng that teaching are observations that someone has made and someone has interpreted. The most fundamental observations are those that we can make directly with our senses. We note the physical state of a substance—solid, liquid, or gas. We see its color or lack of color. We observe whether it dissolves in a given solvent or whether it evaporates if exposed to the atmosphere. We might get some sense of its density by seeing it float or sink when added to an immiscible liquid. These are qualitative observations, but they provide an important foundation for further experimentation. 

Density — the mass per unit volume of any substance, including liquids. The density of a liquid determines whether a spilled material that is insoluble in or immiscible with water will sink or float on water. Knowledge of this behavior is essential in checking whether to use water to suppress a fire involving the material. 

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