EVALUATION OF DETERGENCY, INTERFACIAL TENSION AND CONTACT ANGLE FOR FIVE SURFACE WASHING AGENTS
| Autor: | Karen M. Koran, Christopher C. Luedeker, Albert D. Venosa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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| Zdroj: | International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings. 2008:785-789 |
| ISSN: | 2169-3358 2169-3366 |
| DOI: | 10.7901/2169-3358-2008-1-785 |
| Popis: | The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed a laboratory testing protocol to evaluate the effectiveness of surface washing agents (SWAs) to remove crude oil from a solid substrate. Variables were tested to determine their effect on SWA performance. The protocol was most sensitive to SWA:oil ratio (SOR) and rotational speed of mixing; it was not greatly affected by contact time, mixing time, or SWA concentration when total applied mass is constant. Interfacial tension and contact angle were measured for Prudhoe Bay Crude oil in the presence of six SWAs. SWAs were ranked based on 1) efficiency under the developed protocol, 2) ability to reduce interfacial tension and 3) ability to increase oil-substrate contact angle. In order for oil displacement to be thermodynamically favored, an SWA must have a lower interfacial tension with the substrate than does the oil. Using Young'S equation, the difference between the two solid-liquid interfacial tensions was calculated from the three phase contact angle and the interfacial tension between the two liquids. SWAs were ranked based on each of these criteria, and data were correlated with effectiveness under the protocol. |
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