1st Edition

Foam Films and Foams Fundamentals and Applications

    528 Pages
    by CRC Press

    528 Pages
    by CRC Press

    This book describes in detail the scientific philosophy of the formation and stabilization-destabilization of foams. It presents all hierarchical steps of a foam, starting from the properties of adsorption layers formed by foaming agents, discussing the properties of foam films as the building blocks of a foam, and then describing details of real foams, including many fields of application. The information presented in the book is useful to people working on the formulation of foams or attempting to avoid or destruct foams in unwanted situations.

    Contents

    Preface............................................................................................................................................xvii

    Introduction......................................................................................................................................xix

    Editors..............................................................................................................................................xxi

    Contributors………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………xxiii

    Section I Adsorption Layers

    Chapter 1 The Surface Layer as the Basis for Foam Formation and Stability..............................3

    Libero Liggieri, Elena Mileva, and Reinhard Miller

    Section II Foam Films

    Chapter 2 Historical Perspectives on Foam Films....................................................................... 59

    Georgi Gochev, Dimo Platikanov, and Reinhard Miller

    Chapter 3 Fundamentals of Foam Films......................................................................................77

    Dimo Platikanov and Dotchi Exerowa

    Chapter 4 Surfactant Stabilized Foam Films...............................................................................99

    Elena Mileva

    Chapter 5 Foam Films Stabilized by Polymers and Proteins.................................................... 121

    Georgi Gochev and Nora Kristen-Hochrein

    Chapter 6 Biomedical Foam Films............................................................................................ 139

    Dotchi Exerowa and Roumen Todorov

    Chapter 7 Foam Films Stabilised by Particles........................................................................... 157

    Gareth Morris and Jan Cilliers

    Section III Foams

    Chapter 8 Historical Perspectives on Foams............................................................................. 169

    M. Vignes-Adler

    Chapter 9 Fundamentals of Foam Formation............................................................................ 185

    Wiebke Drenckhan, Aouatef Testouri, and Arnaud Saint-Jalmes

    Chapter 10 Foam Formation Techniques..................................................................................... 199

    Wiebke Drenckhan, Aouatef Testouri, and Arnaud Saint-Jalmes

    Chapter 11 Foam Stabilization Mechanisms............................................................................... 213

    D. Langevin

    Chapter 12 Role of Foam Films in Foam Stability...................................................................... 233

    Khristo Khristov

    Chapter 13 Surfactant-Stabilized Foams.....................................................................................245

    Arnaud Saint-Jalmes

    Chapter 14 Protein-Stabilized Foams.......................................................................................... 261

    Christophe Schmitt, Deniz Z. Gunes, Cécile Gehin-Delval, and

    Martin E. Leser

    Chapter 15 Foams Stabilized by Particles................................................................................... 279

    Marcel Krzan, Agnieszka Kulawik-Pióro, and Bozena Tyliszczak

    Section IV Structure of Foams and Antifoaming

    Chapter 16 The Structure of Liquid Foams.................................................................................295

    Stefan Hutzler and Wiebke Drenckhan

    Chapter 17 Foam Rheology.........................................................................................................309

    Norbert Willenbacher and Meike Lexis

    Chapter 18 Mechanisms of Antifoam Action.............................................................................. 331

    P. R. Garrett

    Section V Applications

    Chapter 19 Foam Fractionation................................................................................................... 371

    Vamseekrishna Ulaganathan and Georgi Gochev

    Chapter 20 Foams in Food........................................................................................................... 379

    Deniz Z. Gunes, Jan Engmann, Cécile Gehin-Delval, Christophe Schmitt,

    and Martin E. Leser

    Chapter 21 The Froth in Froth Flotation..................................................................................... 401

    Rossen Sedev and Jason N. Connor

    Chapter 22 Fire Fighting Foams.................................................................................................. 433

    Dirk Blunk

    Chapter 23 Metallic Foams..........................................................................................................445

    F. García-Moreno

    Chapter 24 Ceramic Foams.........................................................................................................465

    F. A. Costa Oliveira

    Chapter 25 Ceramic Foams via a Direct Foaming Technique..................................................... 477

    Philip N. Sturzenegger and Urs T. Gonzenbach

    Index...............................................................................................................................................489

    Biography

    Dotchi Exerowa graduated Chemistry at the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" and made her PhD-thesis as well as habilitation at the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IPC-BAS). She was head of the Department of Interfaces and Colloids at the IPC-BAS until her retirement in 2005. In 2004 she was elected as Full Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her scientific interests were focused on thin liquid films and foams, and mechanisms of lung surfactants.

    Georgi Gochev studied chemistry at the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" and earned his PhD diploma in Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia 2009. Afterwards he spent several years as a postdoc researcher in Max-Plank-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany. Currently he works at the University Münster (Germany). His scientific interests are in surface phenomena at soft interfaces, adsorption dynamics, surface rheology, thin liquid films and foam and emulsion stability with particular emphasis on polymers and proteins.

    Libero Liggieri is senior researcher and group leader at the CNR Institute of Condensed Matter Chemistry and Energy Technologies in Genoa (Italy). His research interests are mainly in the field of dynamics of surfactants and particles layers at the liquid interfaces, with applications to emulsions, foams and materials. He is particularly involved in surface science studies of under microgravity.

    Reinhard Miller studied mathematics in Rostock and colloid chemistry in Dresden. After his PhD and habilitation at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin, (Germany), he spent a postdoc time at the University of Toronto. Since 1992 he is groups leader at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany. His main fields of interests are thermodynamics and kinetics of surfactants and proteins at liquid interfaces, interfacial rheology, foams and emulsions.

    Dimo Platikanov graduated Chemistry at the University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski". Here, at the Department of Physical Chemistry, he defended his PhD thesis and his habilitation and became full professor and head of this department. He was very much involved in the organization of colloid and interface sciences, in particular in the International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists. Dimo Platikanov’s main scientific interests are liquid films, in particular wetting films.