Dynamic Interfacial Tension Behavior of Water/Oil Systems Containing In situ-Formed Surfactants

Time-dependent interfacial tension (IFT) has been investigated for an interfacially reactive immiscible system composed of model-acidified oil and alkaline water. The acidified oil was composed of either lauric acid or linoleic acid dissolved in n-dodecane. Drop volume tensiometry was employed to measure the interfacial tension between the two phases. In the case of lauric acid, the IFT value was found to decrease sharply with increasing alkali concentration, even at low drop formation times. In the case of linoleic acid, the IFT decrease with the drop formation time was more gradual, especially at low alkali concentration. The rate of formation of the interfacial area was also found to be dependent on alkali concentration.     

Determination of Partial Molar Volumes of EPA and DHA Ethyl Esters in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

The use of supercritical fluids (SCFs) as solvents has been attracting widespread interest in the research and commercial applications. The study of partial molar volumes of solutes at infinite dilution in the near-critical region is of considerable fundamental importance, as these data reflects the interactions occurring between the solute and the solvent. Experimental measurements of partial molar volumes may be divided into two categories: direct and indirect methods. The direct methods…     

基于介孔分子筛MCM-41“有机-无机”互穿结构纳米复合材料体系研究

采用硅烷偶联剂KH550对介孔分子筛MCM-41内、外表面进行改性,并利用氮气吸附-脱附,傅里叶红外光谱以及小角X衍射等进行表征,其结果显示KH550分子被引入MCM-41纳米孔道中,且—NH_2基团成功嫁接到MCM-41纳米颗粒表面.凝胶液相色谱实验结果证实本文中采用的双酚A型环氧树脂为低分子量环氧.随后,采用原位聚合的方法制备不同MCM-41含量环氧树脂纳米复合材料.最后,利用正电子湮没寿命谱测量复合材料自由体积孔洞;利用透射电镜,动态热机械分析和交流击穿对复合材料宏观性能进行研究.复合材料超薄切片TEM观察结果显示,在低MCM-41添加含量时,MCM-41颗粒可在复合材料中良好分散.同时,环氧分子在外施作用力和硅烷偶联剂功能作用下引入纳米孔道,形成"有机-无机"互穿结构复合材料体系,增强MCM-41和环氧树脂间相互作用力,在低MCM-41添加含量下提高复合材料玻璃化温度(15.1%↑)和击穿电压(22.6%↑).     

Liquid densities of THF and excess volumes for the mixture with water in a wide temperature and pressure range

In this paper densities for THF (tetrahydrofuran) and THF + water mixtures measured with the help of the Anton Paar DMA HPM vibrating tube densimeter are reported. The pure component densities of tetrahydrofuran measured in the temperature range from 278 to 437 K and pressures up to 130 MPa were correlated with the TRIDEN-System. Additionally densities of the binary mixture tetrahydrofuran + water were measured for 6 different concentrations in a temperature range from 288 to 338 K and up to 130 MPa. Excess volumes (vE)$(v^E)$ of the mixture were determined using the own correlation of the tetrahydrofuran densities and the equation of state (EoS) for water by Wagner and Pruß. Redlich–Kister polynomials were used to fit the vE-data$v^E\text{-data}$. Additionally in this work it was checked if the vibrating tube densimeter allows the determination of the miscibility gap for the system THF–water as a function of temperature and pressure.     

Excess Gibbs energies and volumes of the ternary system chloroform + tetrahydrofuran + cyclohexane at 298.15 K

Vapour–liquid equilibria and densities for the ternary system chloroform + tetrahydrofuran + cyclohexane and for the binary mixtures containing chloroform have been determined at 298.15 K. Vapour–liquid equilibrium data have been collected by head-space gas-chromatographic analysis of the vapour phase directly withdrawn from an equilibration apparatus. Density measurements have been carried out by means of a vibrating tube densimeter. Molar excess Gibbs energies G^E and volumes V^E, as well as activity coefficients and apparent molar volumes of the components, have been obtained from the measured quantities and discussed. The binary chloroform + tetrahydrofuran displays negative deviations from ideality, while chloroform + cyclohexane positive deviations, for both volume and Gibbs energy. The G^E's and V^E's for the ternary system are positive in the region rich in cyclohexane while negative in the region rich in chloroform + tetrahydrofuran. This indicates that hydrogen bonding between chloroform and tetrahydrofuran molecules produces negative values of G^E and V^E and strongly influences the behaviour of the ternary system.     

New method for the determination of adsorption space volume for sorbents with an arbitrary porous structure from excess gas adsorption isotherm measurements

A new method for the determination of adsorption space volume has been proposed, which is applicable to adsorbents with an arbitrary porous structure, including nonporous adsorbents with open surfaces. The method is based on the use of an experimental excess adsorption isotherm measured over a wide range of pressures in the equilibrium gaseous phase (as a rule up to 100–150 MPa) and the absolute adsorption isotherm equation with unspecified parameters in the most general form, given by statistical physics. The method has been tested for a number of adsorption systems, and it has been found that the result was always unambiguous, correct, and stable in the sense of input data.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 12, pp. 2381–2385, December, 1995.     

Molar heat capacities and volumes of transfer of cytosine,thymine, caffeine and 1,3-diethylthymine to aqueous solutions of glycyl-glycine and L-α-alanyl-L-α-alanine at 25°C

Densities and specific heat capacities of ternary aqueous systems containing dipeptides (glycyl-glycine or L--alanyl-L--alanine) and nucleic acid bases (cytosine or thymine) or their alkyl derivatives (1,3-diethylthymine or caffeine) were determined at 25°C by flow calorimetry and flow densimetry. The partial molar volumes and heat capacities of transfer at infinite dilution of the different nucleic acid bases from water to water+dipeptide solutions were obtained therefrom. Except for the case of the transfer of cytosine to aqueous glycyl-glycine solutions where a small positive dependence of the transfer quantities was observed with the dipeptide concentration, the values of the heat capacities of transfer were in general low, positive or negative, depending on the compensation of hydrophobic-hydrophilic interactions between the dipeptide and the base. The volumes of transfer of most of the bases are very small, within the limit of the experimental error.     

Ion interaction approach to calculations of volumetric properties of aqueous multiple-solute electrolyte solutions

The ion interaction approach developed by Pitzer was used for the prediction of volumetric properties of mixed electrolyte solutions at 25°C based on parameters calculated from experimental data for single-solute electrolyte solutions. Such an approach was shown to be especially effective for application to the calculation of volumetric properties of natural hypersaline brines and of industrial electrolyte solutions of large complexity. The use of the latest recommended sets of volumetric ion interaction parameters for single electrolyte solutions and symmetrical mixing parameters for Na–K–Cl ion combinations considerably improved the precision of the density calculations of highly concentrated mixed electrolyte solutions and of various natural waters.