the interaction of solute transfer, contaminants and drop break-up in rotating disc contactors: part Ⅱ. The coupling of the mass transfer and breakage processes via interfacial tension

摘要

In order to investigate the influence of solute transfer and of surface active agents on the drop breakage process in liquid- liquid extraction columns, their effect on the interfacial tension has to be studied in detail. The difficulty encountered is that the interfacial tension during solute transfer continuously changes and that no simple apparatus is commercially available which can measure these varying interfacial tension values. An attempt has been made here to theoretically predict them.