Hydrophobic interactions described using hetero-segmented PC-SAFT: 2. Surfactants and their aqueous solutions

IF 2.8 3区工程技术 Q3 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL

Fluid Phase Equilibria Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI:10.1016/j.fluid.2025.114342

Marius Rother, Gabriele Sadowski

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Abstract

Despite their importance for industry and pharmaceuticals applications, description of aqueous solutions that contain surfactants is still a challenging task in thermodynamic modeling. As a first step towards a holistic modeling approach, which is also applicable for concentrated surfactant solutions, this work aimed to model the intrinsic behavior of surfactant molecules. For this purpose, we applied hetero-segmented PC-SAFT as a group contribution method to build surfactant molecules from different groups, which separately characterize the hydrophobic tail and the hydrophilic head of the surfactant. While the hydrophobic tail is modeled by the parameterization developed in the first part of this paper series (M. Rother, G. Sadowski, Fluid Phase Equilibria 582 (2024)), this work focuses on extending the parameter matrix to model the hydrophilic head. We considered the surfactant classes C_iG₁, C_iE_j and MEGA-i. The parameters for the surfactant head groups were adjusted to sorption data of surfactant/alcohol systems and to partition coefficients of the surfactants in n-alkane/water systems and n-alcohol/water systems. As a benchmark of the new parameterization, we modeled the critical micelle concentration as a function of temperature for these three surfactant classes using a newly developed, explicit equation for calculating this quantity. The results are in even quantitative agreement with the experimental data.

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Fluid Phase Equilibria 工程技术-工程：化工

CiteScore

5.30

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15.40%

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223

审稿时长

53 days

期刊介绍： Fluid Phase Equilibria publishes high-quality papers dealing with experimental, theoretical, and applied research related to equilibrium and transport properties of fluids, solids, and interfaces. Subjects of interest include physical/phase and chemical equilibria; equilibrium and nonequilibrium thermophysical properties; fundamental thermodynamic relations; and stability. The systems central to the journal include pure substances and mixtures of organic and inorganic materials, including polymers, biochemicals, and surfactants with sufficient characterization of composition and purity for the results to be reproduced. Alloys are of interest only when thermodynamic studies are included, purely material studies will not be considered. In all cases, authors are expected to provide physical or chemical interpretations of the results. Experimental research can include measurements under all conditions of temperature, pressure, and composition, including critical and supercritical. Measurements are to be associated with systems and conditions of fundamental or applied interest, and may not be only a collection of routine data, such as physical property or solubility measurements at limited pressures and temperatures close to ambient, or surfactant studies focussed strictly on micellisation or micelle structure. Papers reporting common data must be accompanied by new physical insights and/or contemporary or new theory or techniques.