Drop breakage and coalescence in the toluene/water dispersions with dissolved surface active polymers PVA 88% and 98%

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2142-2155

  Bak, Agata ^a   Podgórska, Wioletta ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Coalescence model; Drop size distribution; Interfacial tension; Multifractal breakage model; Polyvinyl alcohol; Population balance equation

Indexed keywords

BREAKAGE MODELS; COALESCENCE MODELING; CONCENTRATION RANGES; DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; LIQUID/LIQUID DISPERSION; MULTIFRACTAL FORMALISM; POLYMER CONCENTRATIONS; POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION;

DISPERSIONS; FRACTALS; HYDROLYSIS; POLYVINYL ALCOHOLS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE TENSION;

DROPS;

EID: 84888360972     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2013.06.011     Document Type: Article

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