Adsorption mechanisms of emulsified crude oil droplets onto hydrophilic open-cell polymer foams
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Polyester/polyurethane open cell foam is examined for oil field water treatment. The oil droplet adsorption is influenced by foam-droplet bonding due to surface chemical interactions. Of the possible adsorption, acid-base, electrostatic (ES), and hydrophobicity interactions are among the most important. To determine the role of acid-base interactions on the adsorption, foam Ka and Kb values were measured. The foam is found to be a stronger base. To evaluate ES affect, adsorption experiments were performed for a series of emulsion pH levels using crude oil-in-water emulsions which were adjusted to acidic, neutral, and basic conditions. It was found that the turbidity removal rates (adsorption-separation quantification) were substantially increased during acidic conditions due to active interaction with the basic sites at the foam surface. Specifically, at pH5 the turbidity removal rates were faster perhaps due to optimal charge concentration and mobility of the ions where the electrostatic repulsion is minimal. At basic conditions, the turbidity removal rates were too slow could be due to electrostatic repulsive forces between hydroxyl ions-droplets and droplet-base foam. Based on the experimental results, to minimize the energy input, the separation process will be performed at pH5 where the turbidity rates are found to maximum.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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