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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE
Volume 122, Issue -, Pages 185-196Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2014.09.030
Keywords
Caprolactam; Benzene; Extraction; Surfactant; Interface; Dissipative particle dynamics
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Funding
- National Basic Research Program of China [2014CB748500]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [91334203]
- 111 Project of Ministry of Education of China (National Natural Science Foundation of China) [B08021]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- Shanghai Science and Technology Committee Rising-Star Program [14QA1401300]
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A dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulation is performed to study the properties of wafer/benzene/caprolactam (W/B/CPL) system in the absence or presence of different non-ionic surfactants. The interaction parameters involved in the constructed coarse grained model are determined by combining two solubility parameter models and all atom molecular dynamics. By using the DPD method, see first show that the interfacial tensions in the W/B/CPL system can be quantitatively predicted and compared with available experimental and other theoretical data Secondly, by calculating the density profile of CPL and the efficiency of the surfactant at various conditions, we demonstrate that (i) unlike Traube's rule, the efficiency of the surfactant does not always improve with an increase in its hydrophobic tail length, and due to the accumulation of CPL at the interlace, this tail length effect becomes nearly negligible when the tail is long; (ii) CPL, like a weak surfactant, is capable of activating surfactants at the interface by improving the efficiency of surfactant; and (iii) the addition of surfactants (especially with short tail lengths) into the W/B/CPL system can drive CPL into the water-rich phase, which can be applied to the design of more efficient industrial extraction process for recycling CPL. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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