A Multiscale Approach to the Design and Manipulation of Oil-in-Water Emulsion-Based Products
Advances in computational technology and high-throughput modeling software have given rise to the tailored design of products that require accurate mathematical relationships for their assessment. Industrial emulsion-based products, ubiquitous to everyday life, are complex systems driven by interfac...
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| description | Advances in computational technology and high-throughput modeling software have given rise to the tailored design of products that require accurate mathematical relationships for their assessment. Industrial emulsion-based products, ubiquitous to everyday life, are complex systems driven by interfacial phenomena that require quick property-prediction tools for their commercialization. In this work, by means of a multiscale approach, mathematical relationships to model oil-in-water emulsions and that can be applied to any commercial emulsion-based product are proposed. The energy consumption during the emulsification process (Ev, which transitions from monotonic increase to exponential growth at 80% w/w), a parameter responsible for finished product performance, was linked to final product properties at three different levels: (i) molecular, through the dynamics of the interdroplet interactions given their distribution and structure at a microscopic level; (ii) microscopic, through average droplet size yielding an inversely proportional exponential relationship (D4,3 ∝ Ev−4); and (iii) macroscopic, through the plateau value of the elastic modulus and the flow behavior index leading to inversely proportional quadratic relationships (G′∝ Ev−2 and η∝ Ev−2, respectively). These relationships are valid at dispersed phase concentrations beyond the 60% w/w threshold where the packing of the droplets changes the emulsion’s microscopic structure giving rise to Van der Waals forces-driven phenomena. Finding this threshold allowed expanding the concentration ranges of previously reported models. The main expectation is that these results will aid researchers and process/product designers to optimize their work in different industrial applications. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-13b9fda8b56544d08feaa0747ec5b5b92025-08-20T02:01:40ZengWileyInternational Journal of Chemical Engineering1687-806X1687-80782021-01-01202110.1155/2021/88979838897983A Multiscale Approach to the Design and Manipulation of Oil-in-Water Emulsion-Based ProductsJavier D. Gomez0Diego Pradilla1Oscar Alvarez2Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USAProduct and Process Design Group (GDPP), Chemical Engineering Department, Universidad de Los Andes, Carrera 1 No. 18a-10, Bogotá 111711, ColombiaProduct and Process Design Group (GDPP), Chemical Engineering Department, Universidad de Los Andes, Carrera 1 No. 18a-10, Bogotá 111711, ColombiaAdvances in computational technology and high-throughput modeling software have given rise to the tailored design of products that require accurate mathematical relationships for their assessment. Industrial emulsion-based products, ubiquitous to everyday life, are complex systems driven by interfacial phenomena that require quick property-prediction tools for their commercialization. In this work, by means of a multiscale approach, mathematical relationships to model oil-in-water emulsions and that can be applied to any commercial emulsion-based product are proposed. The energy consumption during the emulsification process (Ev, which transitions from monotonic increase to exponential growth at 80% w/w), a parameter responsible for finished product performance, was linked to final product properties at three different levels: (i) molecular, through the dynamics of the interdroplet interactions given their distribution and structure at a microscopic level; (ii) microscopic, through average droplet size yielding an inversely proportional exponential relationship (D4,3 ∝ Ev−4); and (iii) macroscopic, through the plateau value of the elastic modulus and the flow behavior index leading to inversely proportional quadratic relationships (G′∝ Ev−2 and η∝ Ev−2, respectively). These relationships are valid at dispersed phase concentrations beyond the 60% w/w threshold where the packing of the droplets changes the emulsion’s microscopic structure giving rise to Van der Waals forces-driven phenomena. Finding this threshold allowed expanding the concentration ranges of previously reported models. The main expectation is that these results will aid researchers and process/product designers to optimize their work in different industrial applications.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/8897983 |
| spellingShingle | Javier D. Gomez Diego Pradilla Oscar Alvarez A Multiscale Approach to the Design and Manipulation of Oil-in-Water Emulsion-Based Products International Journal of Chemical Engineering |
| title | A Multiscale Approach to the Design and Manipulation of Oil-in-Water Emulsion-Based Products |
| title_full | A Multiscale Approach to the Design and Manipulation of Oil-in-Water Emulsion-Based Products |
| title_fullStr | A Multiscale Approach to the Design and Manipulation of Oil-in-Water Emulsion-Based Products |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Multiscale Approach to the Design and Manipulation of Oil-in-Water Emulsion-Based Products |
| title_short | A Multiscale Approach to the Design and Manipulation of Oil-in-Water Emulsion-Based Products |
| title_sort | multiscale approach to the design and manipulation of oil in water emulsion based products |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/8897983 |
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