Microemulsion breakdown using the pervaporation technique: application to cutting oil models

Microemulsion breakdown by pervaporation technique: Effect of the alkyl chain length of n-alkanol, a cosurfactant of the microemulsion

“…tests with methylene blue and a cobalt-chloride-impregnated filter paper, were performed as described earlier [15].…”

“…In continuation of our work on the microemulsion breakdown by means of pervaporation [7,15,16], we wish to report the results of the effect of the chainlength of n-alkanols used as cosurfactants, on the permselectivity parameters.…”

“…To name but a few, there are the separation of organic components from aqueous or organic mixtures and of azeotropic binary systems [8][9][10][11], the control of oxidation of primary alcohols [12,13] and of some equilibrated reactions [14], and the breakdown of microemulsions [7,15,16]. Caron used the pervaporation technique to study the singlet oxygenation of some hydrophobic and natural substrates (α-terpinene, β-citronellol, and β-pinene) in microemulsion [17].…”

Use of inverse gas chromatography to account for the pervaporation performance in the microemulsion breakdown

“…In this line, the recovery of organic compounds from wastewater has gained a special attention [3]. Lately, we applied this technique to break down a microemulsion, a highly ordered system [4][5][6], to monitor the oxidation of primary alcohols [7], and to separate azeotropic mixtures [8]. Its use to control some equilibrated organic reactions was claimed [9].…”

“…In our previous work [4][5][6], polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) was evaluated as a membrane in the pervaporation for the microemulsion breakdown. For a matter of a better understanding of the results obtained in the pervaporation, PDMS was examined as a sorbent (or solvent) in the inverse gas chromatography study.…”