Surfactants are one of the major components (10- 18%) of detergents and household cleaning products and are used in high volumes in developed countries. In the present research work, the ability of rice husk as a low cost adsorbent for anionic and nonionic surfactants in wastewater has been studied. The maximum removal efficiency for anionic surfactants was 97%, in an aqueous solu...

Aquantitative structure-property relationship studywasperformedon the criticalmicelle concentration (cmc) of nonionic surfactants using the CODESSA program. A known correlation between the logarithm of the cmc and counts of linear alkane carbon atoms and ethoxy groups in linear alkyl ethoxylates was improved (R2 ) 0.996) by adding cross terms of these molecular descriptors. A general three-para...

The solubilizing power of various nonionic and zwitterionic detergents as membrane protein solubilizers for two-dimensional electrophoresis was investigated. Human red blood cell ghosts and Arabidopsis thaliana leaf membrane proteins were used as model systems. Efficient detergents could be found in each class, i.e. with oligooxyethylene, sugar or sulfobetaine polar heads. Among the commerciall...

We study adsorption of two nonionic surfactants (C12E5 and C12E8) on a dispersed suspension of negatively charged laponite particles. First, we quantify adsorption, i.e. the amount of adsorbed molecules per gram of dried solid. Then, we show that contrast variation experiments under controlled conditions along the adsorption isotherm of the surfactant on dispersed laponite particles allow to de...

This study has been investigated, the effects of three different polar polyacrylamides (anionic, cationic, and nonionic) on asphaltene deposition in porous media. All experiments were carried out in various dead oil flow rates (0.2, 0.1 and 0.02 cc/min) and different polymer concentrations (500, 2500, 4000 ppm). The results indicated that asphaltene precipitation was affected by the presence of...

Surfactant-enabled asymmetric ATA-catalyzed reductive aminations in aqueous buffered media are described, representative of the enhanced levels conversion made possible by presence a nonionic surfactant water, thereby enabling 1-pot chemoenzymatic catalysis.

Abstract The diffusion kinetics of a molecular probe—rhodamine B—in ternary aqueous solutions containing poly(vinyl alcohol), glycerol, and surfactants was investigated using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy dynamic light scattering. We show that the characteristics rhodamine B in such complex systems is determined by synergistic effect crowding intermolecular interactions between chemical...