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Industrial Utilization of Surfactants: Principles & Practice
Editor:Milton J. Rosen and Manilal Dahanayake ISBN:1-893997-11-1
Format: Hardback Books Product Code:140
Topics:Surfactants - Detergents
Industrial Utilization of Surfactants: Principles
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This book presents, in nonmathematical fashion, the principles underlying the use of surfactants in industrial products and processes, how these principles are used to select surfactants for use in a variety of industrial applications, and tables of surfactants actually used in these applications. Among the application areas covered are: agrochemicals, construction, emulsion polymerization, firefighting foams, industrial water treatment, metal cleaning and metal working, oil field fracturing, plastics, pulp and paper, and textiles.

There are numerous tables of surface properties in aqueous solution of commercial surfactants, relevant to their use, including surface tension, interfacial tension vs. mineral oil, effectiveness and efficiency of adsorption at the air/water interface, area/molecule at the air/water interface, dynamic surface tension at 0.1% concentration, contact angles of 0.1% solutions on Parafilm M, concentrations to give 25-sec Draves cotton skein wetting, Ross-Miles foaming heights, critical micelle concentrations, krafft points of anionic surfactants, cloud points of nonionic surfactants, and molecular interaction (b) parameters for some commercial surfactant mixtures.

A chapter is devoted to the enhancement of surfactant performance via synergism with other surfactants, the use of gemini surfactants, and other methods.

A list of major surfactant suppliers and the chemical types of surfactants that they produce, with their trade names, is appended.
Released: 05/01/2000; 176 pages
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Table of Contents

1. General Principles

  • Which Surfactant Should I Use?
  • What Do I Want the Surfactant(s) to Do?



    • 2. How the Adsorption of Surfactants Changes the Properties of Interfaces and Related Performance Properties

  • Changes In the Properties of the Surface of a Solution
  • Changes in the Properties at Solid/Liquid and Liquid/Liquid Interfaces
  • How Quantitative Information on Adsorption at an Interface Is Obtained
  • Changes in Performance Phenomena Resulting from Surfactant Adsorption

    3. How Surfactants Change the Internal Properties of the Solution Phase and Related Performance Properties
  • Micellization
  • Relationship of Micellar Structure to Performance Properties

    4. Chemical Structure and Microenvironmental Effects on Surfactant Fundamental Properties and Related Performance Properties
  • Solubility of Surfactants
  • Electrical Effects
  • Packing at Interfaces
  • Reduction of Surface Tension
  • Dispersion of Solids in Liquid Media
  • Emulsification
  • Foaming
  • Solubilization
  • Wetting by Aqueous Solutions

    5. Enhancing the Performance of Surfactants
  • Synergism
  • Gemini Surfactants
  • Other Methods of Enhancing Performance

    6. Surfactant Applications 1
  • Agrochemicals
  • Emulsion Polymerization
  • Metal Cleaning
  • Pulp and Paper

    7. Surfactant Applications 2
  • Construction
  • Oil Fields
  • Firefighting Foams
  • Textiles
  • Industrial Water Treatment
  • Metalworking
  • Plastics
  • Cleaning Operations

    Major Surfactant Suppliers
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