Abstract
Abstract An oil-in-water system (Nujol being the oil phase) stabilized by the phospholipid, lecithin, has been chosen in this study. The system being negatively charged initially, cationic detergents like lauryl pyridinium chloride (LPC), Cetyl pyridinium bromide (CPB), Phenyl trimethyl ammonium chloride (Ammonyx-200) and Cetyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride (CDBAC) have been employed in order to study their influence on the flocculation and coalescence rates and the degree of aggregation haemocytometrically. Zeta potentials (ξ) have been determined at the corresponding concentrations of the detergents by microcataphoresis and with these values the potential energies and then ultimately the operating van der Waals constant of the system has been determined. From the log C-ξ values it is evident that except Ammonyx-200 which is not an effective cationic detergent, all the others have reversed the charge of the system and their efficiencies are in the order CDBAC>CPB>LPC. The different binding parameters, number of binding sites available for adsorption and free energy of the surface have also been calculated.
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