Relative assessment of density and stability of foam produced with four synthetic surfactants

Materials and Structures/Materiaux et Constructions

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1317-1325

  Ranjani, Indu Siva ^a   Ramamurthy, K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Cocodiethanolamide; Density; Foam; Sodium lauryl ether sulfate; Sodium lauryl sulfate; Stability; Sulfanol

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS FOAMS; COCODIETHANOLAMIDE; DENSITY; ETHER SULFATES; FOAM DENSITIES; FOAM GENERATION; FOAM PRODUCTION; FOAM PROPERTIES; FOAM STABILITY; FOAMED CONCRETE; GAS LIQUIDS; INTERFACIAL PROPERTY; IONIC SURFACTANTS; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY; SODIUM LAURYL SULFATE; SODIUM LAURYL SULFATES; STABLE FOAMS; SULFANOL; SURFACTANT CONCENTRATIONS; SYNTHETIC SURFACTANTS; SYSTEMATIC EXPERIMENT; TEST METHOD;

ETHERS; FOAMS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SODIUM; STABILITY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION;

SODIUM SULFATE;

EID: 78049482158     PISSN: 13595997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1617/s11527-010-9582-z     Document Type: Article

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