Surfactants solubility

AH corrosion inhibitors in use as of this writing are oil-soluble surfactants (qv) which consist of a hydrophobic hydrocarbon backbone and a hydrophilic functional group. Oil-soluble surfactant-type additives were first used in 1946 by the Sinclair Oil Co. (38). Most corrosion inhibitors are carboxyhc acids (qv), amines, or amine salts (39), depending on the types of water bottoms encountered in the whole distribution system. The wrong choice of inhibitors can lead to unwanted reactions. Eor instance, use of an acidic corrosion inhibitor when the water bottoms are caustic can result in the formation of insoluble salts that can plug filters in the distribution system or in customers vehicles. Because these additives form a strongly adsorbed impervious film at the metal Hquid interface, low Hquid concentrations are usually adequate. Concentrations typically range up to 5 ppm. In many situations, pipeline companies add their own corrosion inhibitors on top of that added by refiners. 

Natural Ethoxylated Fats, Oils, and Waxes. Castor oil (qv) is a triglyceride high in ticinoleic esters. Ethoxylation in the presence of an alkaline catalyst to a polyoxyethylene content of 60—70 wt % yields water-soluble surfactants (Table 20). Because alkaline catalysts also effect transestenfication, ethoxylated castor oil surfactants are complex mixtures with components resulting from transesterrfication and subsequent ethoxylation at the available hydroxyl groups. The ethoxylates are pale amber Hquids of specific gravity just above 1.0 at room temperature. They are hydrophilic emulsifiers, dispersants, lubricants, and solubilizers used as textile additives and finishing agents, as well as in paper (qv) and leather (qv) manufacture. 

Gas turbine fuels can contain natural surfactants if the cmde fraction is high in organic acids, eg, naphthenic (cycloparaffinic) acids of 200—400 mol wt. These acids readily form salts that are water-soluble and surface-active. Older treating processes for sulfur removal can leave sulfonate residues which are even more powerful surfactants. Refineries have installed processes for surfactant removal. Clay beds to adsorb these trace materials are widely used, and salt towers to reduce water levels also remove water-soluble surfactants. In the field, clay filters designed as cartridges mounted in vertical vessels are also used extensively to remove surfactants picked up in fuel pipelines, in contaminated tankers, or in barges. 

Surfactants and Dispersants. Castor od can be transformed from an od- to a water-soluble surfactant, depending on the moles of ethylene oxide added to its hydroxyl group. A 40 mole ethylene oxide adduct of castor od, known as PEG-40 castor od, is a surfactant that has cosolvent properties and is utilized as a fragrance solubilizer (118). Glycol hydroxystearate emulsifiers are formulated into shampoos to impart finer peadescence and give better stabdity than gylcol stearates (118) (see Hair preparation). 

Asphalts and waxes can be removed by dissolving in hot naphtha for 3 to 4 hours. The naphtha benefits from the addition of 0.1% of a water-soluble surfactant (HLB value of 15-20, such as polyethylene glycol 600 monolaurate) and 0.1% of an oil-soluble surfactant (HLB value of 0-5, such as propylene glycol monstearate). The solution must be circulated fill-and-soak methods are unsatisfactory. 

The concepts of interface rheology are derived from the rheology of three-dimensional phases. Characteristic for the interface rheology is the coupling of the motions of an interface with the flow processes in the bulk close to the interface. Thus, in interface rheology the shear and dilatational stresses of the interface are in equilibrium with the corresponding shear stress in the bulk. An important feature is the compressibility of the adsorption layer of an interface in contrast, the flow elements of the bulk are incompressible. As a result, compression or dilatation of the adsorption layer of a soluble surfactant is associated with desorption and adsorption processes by which the interface tends to reinstate the adsorption equilibrium with the bulk phase. 

The solubility of numerous ionic surfactants in water is strongly reduced in the presence of divalent cations. Stability in hard water is thus an important fact for surfactants used as detergents. Their stability can be measured as the amount of divalent cations at which the formation of a poorly soluble surfactant salt leads to permanent turbidity. The values given in the literature can only be... 

Quaternary alkylammonium salts are generally water-soluble surfactants. The sol-gel-derived anion-sensing membranes encapsulating a quaternary alkylammonium salt, especially with high contents, are easy to deteriorate due to the exudation of the cationic site from the membrane to aqueous sample phases. Moreover, another issue concerning the dispersibility of ammonium salts in sol-gel-derived membranes may happen when high... 

Influence of Soluble Surfactants on the Flow of Long Bubbles Through a Cylindrical Capillary... 

Flow of trains of surfactant-laden gas bubbles through capillaries is an important ingredient of foam transport in porous media. To understand the role of surfactants in bubble flow, we present a regular perturbation expansion in large adsorption rates within the low capillary-number, singular perturbation hydrodynamic theory of Bretherton. Upon addition of soluble surfactant to the continuous liquid phase, the pressure drop across the bubble increases with the elasticity number while the deposited thin film thickness decreases slightly with the elasticity number. Both pressure drop and thin film thickness retain their 2/3 power dependence on the capillary number found by Bretherton for surfactant-free bubbles. Comparison of the proposed theory to available and new experimental... 

By asserting that the film thickness remains proportional to the 2/3 power of the capillary number, they establish that the dynamic pressure drop for surfactant-laden bubbles also varies with the capillary number to the 2/3 power but with an unknown constant of proportionality. New pressure-drop data for a 1 wt% commercial surfactant, sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate (Siponate DS-10), in water, after correction for the liquid indices between the bubbles, confirmed the 2/3 power dependence on Ca and revealed significant increases over the Bretherton theory due to the soluble surfactant. 

Figure 2. Flow of a single gas bubble through a liquid-filled cylindrical capillary. The liquid contains a soluble surfactant whose distribution along the bubble interface is sketched.

E is one of several elasticity numbers characterizing the stabilizing effect which adsorbed surfactant molecules have on an interface during mass-transfer processes (22). Note that E is inversely proportional to the capillary radius so that the effect of soluble surfactants on the bubble-flow resistance is larger for smaller capillary radii. 

The first term in both Equations 17 and 18 is the constant surface-tension contribution and the second term gives the first-order contribution resulting from the presence of a soluble surfactant with finite sorption kinetics. A linear dependence on the surfactant elasticity number arises because only the first-order term in the regular perturbation expansion has been evaluated. The thin film thickness deviates negatively by only one percent from the constant-tension solution when E = 1, whereas the pressure drop across the bubble is significantly greater than the constant-tension value when E - 1. 

The effect of a soluble surfactant on the flow of long bubbles in a cylindrical tube has been quantified when the surfactant... 

Larpent, C., Brisse-le-Menn, F., and Patin, H., New highly water-soluble surfactants stabilize colloidal rhodium(O) suspensions useful in biphasic catalysis, J. Mol. Catal., 65, L35-L40, 1991. 

The surface active agents (surfactants) may be cationic, anionic or non-ionic. Surfactants commonly used are cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide (CTABr), sodium lauryl sulphate (NaLS) and triton-X, etc. The surfactants help to lower the surface tension at the monomer-water interface and also facilitate emulsification of the monomer in water. Because of their low solubility surfactants get fully dissolved or molecularly dispersed only at low concentrations and at higher concentrations micelles are formed. The highest concentration where in all the molecules are in dispersed state is known as critical micelle concentration (CMC). The CMC values of some surfactants are listed in table below. 

Depending upon the physical properties of a surfactant (component), removal from the mixed liquor is further possible through precipitation of insoluble salts and adsorption onto solids or bacterial floes, which, in turn, are subsequently withdrawn with the excess sludge [53]. In particular, intact or partly degraded low water-soluble surfactants are eliminated by this route. 

Inhibition of polydimethylsiloxane hydrolysis on soils [52,60] and clays [25] by high moisture levels has been described, which is in general attributed to their low water solubility. This is not expected to be applicable to the more soluble surfactant analogues, however, which show increased water solubility with degradation [10,12,15], and which are used at concentrations much lower than are required for the formation of hydrophobic degradation products. 

Thus, especially since the development of appropriately specific and sensitive analytical methods, as discussed in Chapter 2, it seems only logical that some highly water-soluble surfactants and their even more polar metabolites have been positively detected in potable water. In the following sections, examples are given according to the different surfactant classes as well as the source of the raw water used. 

In Fig. 7, this is exemplified with surface tension concentration curves for Na n-tetradecyl diethyleneglycol ether sulfates (33). Less soluble surfactants would produce with increasing water hardness increased formation of sparingly soluble Ca salts. Therefore, the critical micelle concentration would be shifted toward much larger concentrations. 

This transition may j-.e. reducing the specific surface energy, f. The reduction of f to sufficiently small values was accounted for by Ruckenstein (15) in terms of the so called dilution effect". Accumulation of surfactant and cosurfactant at the interface not only causes significant reduction in the interfacial tension, but also results in reduction of the chemical potential of surfactant and cosurfactant in bulk solution. The latter reduction may exceed the positive free energy caused by the total interfacial tension and hence the overall Ag of the system may become negative. Further analysis by Ruckenstein and Krishnan (16) have showed that micelle formation encountered with water soluble surfactants reduces the dilution effect as a result of the association of the the surfactants molecules. However, if a cosurfactant is added, it can reduce the interfacial tension by further adsorption and introduces a dilution effect. The treatment of Ruckenstein and Krishnan (16) also highlighted the role of interfacial tension in the formation of microemulsions. When the contribution of surfactant and cosurfactant adsorption is taken into account, the entropy of the drops becomes negligible and the interfacial tension does not need to attain ultralow values before stable microemulsions form. 

The preparation of a ferrofluid emulsions is quite similar to that described for double emulsions. The starting material is a ferrofluid oil made of small iron oxide grains (Fe203) of typical size equal to 10 nm, dispersed in oil in the presence of an oil-soluble surfactant. The preparation of ferrofluid oils was initially described in a US patent [169]. Once fabricated, the ferrofluid oil is emulsifled in a water phase containing a hydrophilic surfactant. The viscosity ratio between the dispersed and continuous phases is adjusted to lie in the range in which monodisperse fragmentation occurs (0.01-2). The emulsification leads to direct emulsions with a typical diameter around 200 nm and a very narrow size distribution, as can be observed in Fig. 1.33. 

The previous experimental observations reported in the preceding text are, at least to a certain extent, in agreement with the well-known Bancroft rule. Indeed, a double W/O/W emulsion turns into a simple direct one when a sufficient quantity of the water-soluble surfactant is added. Similarly, by shaking a 1 1 mixture of water and oil, each phase containing one of the two types of surfactants, a direct emulsion is obtained if the aqueous phase contains a large amount of water-soluble... 

The surface rigidity and lowering of interfacial tension of a drop-soluble surfactant will cause a smaller drop to be formed from a specific size of nozzle. The terminal velocity is lowered in a manner independent of drop size. Figure 17 shows the results of experiments with drops of chlorobenzene in water. Formed from a nozzle made of a piece of f-in. brass pipe, the drop of high-purity chlorobenzene fell at 13.1 cm./sec. Ten cm. of TMN (trimethyl nonyl ether of polyethylene glycol supplied by... 

The application of surfactants can enhance remediation or recovery of contaminants by increasing their mobility and solubility. Surfactants can thus be used to enhance ex situ soil washing, in situsoil flushing, non-aqueous-phase liquid (NAPE) pump-and-treat applications, and in situbiodegradation. Cationic surfactants have been shown to improve the capacity of soil... 

Detergent In relationship to fuel technology, a detergent is an oil-soluble surfactant added to fuel aiding in the prevention and removal of deposits. Examples include anionic alkyl aryl sulfonates, cationic fatty acid amides, or nonionic polyol condensates. 

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