Temperature effect on microchannel oil-in-water emulsification

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 773-783

  Fujiu, Katerina Butron ^a,b   Kobayashi, Isao ^a   Uemura, Kunihiko ^a   Nakajima, Mitsutoshi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Capillary number; Droplet productivity; Microchannel emulsification; Temperature; Uniform droplets

Indexed keywords

A-COEFFICIENT; CAPILLARY NUMBERS; CHIP SURFACES; CONTINUOUS PHASE; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBER; DISPERSED PHASE; DROPLET DIAMETERS; DROPLET GENERATION; DROPLET PRODUCTIVITY; EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE; MICROCHANNEL EMULSIFICATION; MILLI-Q WATER; MONODISPERSE; MONODISPERSE EMULSIONS; OIL-IN-WATER; OIL-IN-WATER (O/W) EMULSION; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; SOYBEAN OIL; TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; UNIFORM DROPLETS;

CAPILLARITY; CONTACT ANGLE; DROPS; MICROCHANNELS; PETROLEUM REFINING; SODIUM; SODIUM SULFATE; TEMPERATURE;

EMULSIFICATION;

EID: 79955947703     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-010-0708-y     Document Type: Article

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