Prediction of emulsion drop size distributions in colloid mills

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 118, Issue , 2014, Pages 114-125

  Maindarkar, Shashank ^a   Dubbelboer, Arend ^b   Meuldijk, Jan ^b   Hoogland, Hans ^c   Henson, Michael ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNILEVER RESEARCH VLAARDINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capillary breakage; Colloid mill; Emulsion viscosity; Oil in water emulsions; Population balance equation model

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; EMULSIFICATION; EMULSIONS; FORECASTING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OSTWALD RIPENING; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SMALL SATELLITES; VISCOSITY;

COALESCENCE FUNCTIONS; COLLOID MILL; DROP DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION; OIL-IN-WATER EMULSIONS; POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION; POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION MODELS;

DROPS;

EID: 84905644168     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2014.07.032     Document Type: Article

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