DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS APPLIED TO DETERGENCY,

Abstract

Six fundamental soil and surfactant variables of the detergency process have been combined by dimensional analysis into a complete and valid set of three dimensionless products which represent the mechanism by a diagram comprising a family of curves of two of the products at fixed values of the third. Three soils and five surfactants have been combined into fourteen soil-surfactant systems to validate the dimensional analysis. The dependent parameter of soil removal, normally viewed as dimensionless, was assigned the dimensions of mass times length following more subtle considerations of the mechanism. This means of representing the detergency process is a considerable improvement over the previously-established transcendental relationships of selected groups of soil-surfactant systems. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 19, 1965
Accession Number
AD0458530

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  • A. Mankowich

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  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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  • Surface Active Substances

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  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Operations Research
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).