Evaluating simple, low-cost techniques to estimate molecular weights and charge densities of polydisperse commercial polyacrylamides for soil and sediment applications

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1127-1136

  Lee, B J ^a,b   Ko, S ^c   Luzinov, I ^d   Hayes, J C ^e   Schlautman, M A ^a  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^d Biomedical Engineering and Lightweight Structures   (United States)

^e Department of Biosystems Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Charge density; Intrinsic viscosity; Molecular weight; Polyacrylamide; Titration

Indexed keywords

A-COEFFICIENT; ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE; ACID-BASE TITRATION; ANALYTICAL LABORATORIES; ANIONIC POLYACRYLAMIDES; CDS; CHN ANALYSIS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE; INTRINSIC VISCOSITY; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MULTIANGLE LASER LIGHT SCATTERING; NONIONIC; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLYACRY LAMIDE; POLYACRYLAMIDES; POLYDISPERSES; REPLICATE MEASUREMENTS; SEDIMENT CONTROL; SHEAR FORCE; SOIL AND SEDIMENT; SOIL EROSION; SOIL STABILIZATION; VISCOSITY DETERMINATION;

CHARGE DENSITY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; EROSION; FLOCCULATION; LABORATORIES; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHASE INTERFACES; POLYACRYLATES; POLYDISPERSITY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REFRACTION; ROADS AND STREETS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOILS; STABILITY; TITRATION; VISCOSITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FLOCCULATION; ION EXCHANGE; LABORATORY METHOD; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLYMER; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; SEDIMENT; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL STABILIZATION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 77956488722     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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