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A Multiscale Approach to the Design and Manipulation of Oil-in-Water Emulsion-Based Products

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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… Click to show full abstract

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. +e energy consumption during the emulsification process (Ev, which transitions frommonotonic 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 (D[4,3] ∝ E−4 v ); and (iii) macroscopic, through the plateau value of the elastic modulus and the flow behavior index leading to inversely proportional quadratic relationships (G′ ∝ E−2 v and η∝ E−2 v , respectively). +ese 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. +e main expectation is that these results will aid researchers and process/product designers to optimize their work in different industrial applications.

Keywords: oil water; design; multiscale approach; emulsion based; emulsion; based products

Journal Title: International Journal of Chemical Engineering
Year Published: 2021

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