ABSTRACT
This work was initiated in an attempt to apply electromechanical principles for the elucidation of the secondary liquid-liquid phase separation problems, methods, equipment, and/or plant conception. In solvent extraction operations during the generation of polydispersed systems, some kind of secondary liquid-liquid droplets (emulsions) or droplet-film structures (double emulsions) occur as an undesirable consequence. These droplets or droplet-film structures are small and stable, and, therefore, they are mechanically entrained by one of the primarily separated liquid phases. For the separation or breakage of simple or double emulsions, an additional force is needed. Figure 2.1 show a drop-size distribution and the critical diameters d1 and d2, which correspond to the boundaries of the primary and the secondary separation, respectively.
