Foam Fractionation

Foam Engineering: Fundamentals and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 307-330

  Li, Xueliang ^a   Stevenson, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Adsorption kinetics, quiescent interface; Adsorption, in foam fractionation; Coarsening and foam stability; Foam drainage, and foam fractionation process; Foam fractionation; Foam fractionation, a promising alternative; Foam fractionation, adsorptive bubble separation technique; Gas dispersion in aqueous liquid, and foam stabilising agent

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877275182     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119954620.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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