Photographic observations showing spreading and non-spreading of oil on gas bubbles of relevance to gas flotation for oily wastewater cleanup

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

Volumn 214, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 151-155

  Grattoni, Carlos ^b   Moosai, Roshni ^a   Dawe, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gas flotation; Oily wastewater; Spreading; Thin films

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); FLOTATION; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

GAS FLOTATION;

OILS AND FATS;

OIL; WATER;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLEANING; EMULSION; FILM; FLOTATION; GAS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0346037063     PISSN: 09277757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-7757(02)00385-0     Document Type: Article

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