Emulsion resolution

Details Emulsion resolution Emulsion resolution

1990-07-26

1992-09-22

Wyse, Thomas

Liquid purification or separation

Processes

Making an insoluble substance or accreting suspended...

210737, 210738, 252348, B01D 1705

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051494400

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for resolving an emulsion that has an aqueous phase and an organic phase that includes components capable of polymerizing or coagulating. The emulsion is added to a tank and heated (with gentle agitation to avoid formation of hot spots) to a temperature sufficient to prevent it from setting up inside the tank. A non-corrosive inorganic separation aid incapable of initiating polymerization of the emulsion or its constituents is added to the tank with mixing to cause the emulsion to separate into its constituent aqueous and organic phases. The contents of the tank are then allowed to settle and the separated aqueous and organic phases are removed from the tank.

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Hahn and Vold, "The Kinetics and Mechanism of Ultracentrifugal Demulsification", J. Colloid Interface S., 51:133, 1975.

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