文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：A Novel Experimental Method and Setup to Quantify Evaporation-Induced Foaming Behavior of Polymer Solutions

作者：Qiu, Xiaoyi[1];Cui, Zhaoqi[1];Zhao, Ming[1];Jiang, Jie[1];Guo, Wenze[1,2];Zhao, Ling[1,3];Xi, Zhenhao[1,3];Yuan, Weikang[1]

机构：[1]East China Univ Sci & Technol, State Key Lab Chem Engn & Low Carbon Technol, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China;[2]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Key Lab Smart Mfg Energy Chem Proc, Minist Educ, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China;[3]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Shanghai Key Lab Multiphase Mat Chem Engn, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China

年份：2025

卷号：17

期号：15

外文期刊名：POLYMERS

收录：;EI(收录号：20253318986694);WOS:【SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:001548696500001)】；

基金：The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the National Science and Technology Major Project of China (No. 2024XXXXX2700), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 22408099), and the Key Research and Development Program of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (No. 2022B01032).

语种：英文

外文关键词：foam stability; evaporation-induced foaming; bubble nucleation; logistic growth function; polymer solution

摘要：This study provides a novel experimental setup and methodology for the quantitative investigation of evaporation-induced foaming behaviors in a polymer/small-molecule solution system (PSMS). In traditional dynamic test methods, it is difficult to precisely describe the evaporation-induced foaming process of a multicomponent solution because the concentration of light components in solution continuously decreases during ebullition, causing undesired changes in foaming behavior. In this study, a precisely controlled condensation reflux module was introduced into the setup to maintain pressure, temperature, and concentration of the PSMS at constant levels during the entire ebullition process, allowing dynamic test methods to quantify the evaporation-induced foamability. With this newly proposed device, experimental data of typical PSMS, polyolefin elastomer (POE)/n-hexane solution system, were obtained and modeled to illustrate the foam growth profile, thereby characterizing the dynamic foaming process based on a logistic growth function. The corresponding dimensionless number Sigma evap was calculated to evaluate evaporation-induced foam stability by analyzing the foam growth profile under varying pressure, concentration, and energy input levels. Furthermore, given that the PSMS represents a highly non-ideal system, the bubble nucleation rate J was modified in this work by introducing a correction coefficient delta to account for the non-ideal effects of macromolecules present in solutions. Additionally, another correction coefficient lambda was incorporated into the Gibbs free energy term to adjust for supersaturation of liquid during nucleation. The experiment's data align well with the modified bubble nucleation rate mechanism proposed herein.