Effect of selected monovalent salts on surfactant stabilized foams

P Amani, SI Karakashev, NA Grozev… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Surfactant-stabilized foams have been at the centre of scientific research for over a century
due to their ubiquitous applications in different industries. Many of these applications involve …

Single bubble and drop techniques for characterizing foams and emulsions

VC Suja, M Rodriguez-Hakim, J Tajuelo… - Advances in colloid and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The physics of foams and emulsions has traditionally been studied using bulk
foam/emulsion tests and single film platforms such as the Scheludko cell. Recently there has …

RSM-CCD design of malachite green adsorption onto activated carbon with multimodal pore size distribution prepared from Amygdalus scoparia: Kinetic and isotherm …

R Bagheri, M Ghaedi, A Asfaram, EA Dil, H Javadian - Polyhedron, 2019 - Elsevier
In the present work, the activated carbon (AC) adsorbent with multimodal pore size
distribution prepared from Amygdalus scoparia as low-cost and locally available source was …

Surfactant screening for foam EOR: Correlation between bulk and core-flood experiments

SA Jones, V Van Der Bent, R Farajzadeh… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2016 - Elsevier
Aqueous foams play an important role in many industrial processes, from ore separation by
froth flotation to enhanced oil recovery (EOR). In the latter case, the foam is used as a means …

Foaming in micellar solutions: Effects of surfactant, salt, and oil concentrations

MR Behera, SR Varade, P Ghosh, P Paul… - Industrial & …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Foaming in products based on micellar solutions has considerable importance in various
consumer applications, such as washing and cleaning. In this work, the effects of surfactant …

The role of emulsification and IFT reduction in recovering heavy oil during alkaline‑surfactant-assisted CO2 foam flooding: an experimental study

J Zhao, F Torabi, J Yang - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
A comprehensive experimental study is performed to investigate the performance of alkali-
surfactant (AS) assisted foam flooding as a means of tertiary Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) …

Effect of surfactant concentration on foam: From coreflood experiments to implicit-texture foam-model parameters

SA Jones, G Laskaris, S Vincent-Bonnieu… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2016 - Elsevier
We present a comparative study of foam coreflood experiments with various surfactant
concentrations. Plots of apparent viscosity vs. injected gas fraction were obtained for …

Ethanol enhanced anionic surfactant solubility in CO2 and CO2 foam stability: MD simulation and experimental investigations

C Zhang, P Wu, Z Li, T Liu, L Zhao, D Hu - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
CO 2 foam has been widely scrutinized as a potential candidate in enhanced oil recovery
while reducing CO 2 emissions through geo-sequestration due to the high-efficiency CO 2 …

DLVO surface forces in liquid films and statistical mechanics of colloidal oscillatory structural forces in dispersion stability

A Nikolov, J Lee, D Wasan - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on the theory of the dispersion stability considering two models. In the
classical DLVO model of surface forces, the interactions between two particles consist of two …

State-of-the-art review on the characteristics of surfactants and foam from foam concrete perspective

SS Sahu, ISR Gandhi, S Khwairakpam - Journal of The Institution of …, 2018 - Springer
Foam concrete finds application in many areas, generally as a function of its relatively
lightweight and its beneficial properties in terms of reduction in dead load on structure …