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Jasper L Dickson1, Ciro Ortiz-Estrada, Juan F J Alvarado
1Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 78712, USA.
Abstract:
The critical flocculation density (CFD), that is, the CO(2) density below which flocculation occurs, was studied for dilute water-in-CO(2) (W/C) miniemulsions stabilized with poly(1,1-dihydroperfluorooctyl methacrylate)-b-poly(ethylene oxide) (PFOMA-b-PEO) surfactants. The CFD, which was measured by turbidimetry, decreased as the PFOMA molecular weight was increased, the average droplet size was decreased, the surfactant loading was increased, and the temperature was increased. A simple model, which addressed both the van der Waals attraction between droplets and osmotic solvent-tail interactions, was in good qualitative agreement with the experimentally observed trends for the CFD and predicted a decrease in emulsion stability as the CO(2) density was lowered toward the theta density for PFOMA in bulk CO(2).
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