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    Citation - WoS: 13
    Citation - Scopus: 15
    Ancillary Effects of Surfactants on Filtration of Low Molecular Weight Contaminants Through Cellulose Nitrate Membrane Filters
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2016) Olcay, Aybike Nil; Polat, Mehmet; Polat, Hürriyet; Polat, Mehmet; 04.01. Department of Chemistry; 03.02. Department of Chemical Engineering; 03. Faculty of Engineering; 04. Faculty of Science; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    Removal of contaminants with low molecular weight (<800 Dalton) requires the use of advanced separation techniques such as ultrafiltration (UF) or micellar enhanced ultrafiltration (MEUF). However, surface active agents invariably co-exist in waste waters along with these contaminants or they may be added intentionally as part of the separation process as in the case of MEUF. Though it is quite likely that both the filter medium and the contaminants would interact with the surfactant molecules or their micelles, there is not sufficient emphasis in the literature on the concomitant aspects of such interactions.The ancillary effects created by anionic (sodium dodecyl sulfate, SDS), cationic (hexadecyltrimethyl ammonium bromide, CTAB) and non-ionic (ethoxylated octylphenol, TX-100) surfactants on the mechanism and efficiency of the filtration process were investigated in this study. Methylene blue (MB) and cellulose nitrate membrane (CNM) filters were employed as model retentate and the separation medium. A combination of surface tension, contact angle and charge measurements demonstrated that the addition of surfactants had a remarkable effect on the filtration outcome. The effect depended on both the type and concentration of the surfactant and was manifested mainly through the creation of MB-surfactant entities which acted differently than the MB alone; but more importantly, through the interactions of the surfactant molecules/micelles and the MB-surfactant pairs with the separation membrane.
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    Citation - WoS: 7
    Citation - Scopus: 6
    Surfactant Adsorption and Marangoni Flow in Liquid Jets. 2. Modeling
    (American Chemical Society, 2004) Weiss, Michael; Darton, Richard C.; Battal, Turgut; Bain, Colin D.; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    This paper is concerned with the interfacial behavior of surfactant solutions on short time scales. A gravity-driven laminar liquid jet is used to create a rapidly expanding liquid surface, which exposes the surfactant solution to highly nonequilibrium conditions. This expansion causes the surface tension to differ locally from its equilibrium value, generating a (Marangoni) shear stress that acts on the jet surface and retards the surface acceleration. A theory for the flow very near the nozzle shows that the cube-root dependence of the surface velocity on the distance traveled is altered through the adsorption of surfactant. In a boundary-layer treatment, both the surface velocity and the surface concentration increase linearly from the nozzle exit over a short distance, which we term the detachment region. The length of the detachment region is found to vary with the bulk concentration raised to the power 3/2. A numerical model of the surfactant adsorption process in the jet has been developed within the framework of the CFD code FIDAP. The numerical solution confirms the general features of the theory and shows that the maximum reduction in surface velocity occurs very close to the nozzle exit, except at high concentrations. A comparison with experiments on C16TAB at concentrations below the critical micelle concentration, which are described in part 1 of this series of papers, shows good agreement.