Surfactant Formulation Engineering using HLD and NAC

Edgar Acosta is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto. He received his BSc in Chemical Engineering from the Universidad del Zulia (Venezuela) in 1996, and his MSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, in 2000 and 2004, respectively. He has published 90 research articles in the area of colloids, complex fluids, and formulation engineering. Jeffrey Harwell works at the University of Oklahoma in OK, USA. David A Sabatini works at University of Oklahoma in USA

1. Surfactant hydrophilicity-lipophilicity and its assessment
2. Effect of lipophilic and hydrophilic additives on the hydrophilic-lipophilic difference (HLD)
3. Design Aspects and Practices of Surfactant Formulations Used in Chemical EOR and Surfactant-Enhanced Aquifer Remediation
4. HLD-guided surfactant design for enhanced oil recovery applications
5. Detergency System Design: From Hydrophile-Lipophile Balance (HLB) to Hydrophilic-Lipophilic Deviation (HLD)
6. HLD-guided design of vegetable oil extraction technology
7. Formulation of microemulsion-based biofuels via the HLD framework
8. Catastrophic Inversion of Epoxy Emulsions
9. Using HLD as a Framework for Solutions Without your Parameters
10. High-throughput HLD-guided formulation design for latex and agrochemical formulations
11. High Throughput HLD Surfactant Characterization and Formulation
12. Net-Average Curvature (NAC) fundamentals and applications
13. A Formulator’s Guide to HLD-NAC
14. Basic HLD and NAC Applied to Household Cleaner Formulation – Advantages and Limitations
15. Engineering cold water detergents with the HLD-NAC
16. Engineering separation processes with the HLD-NAC
17. Engineering nanoscale materials with the HLD-NAC
18. Microemulsion Flash Calculations using an HLD-NAC Based Equation of State
19. Molecular thermodynamic basis: the Integrated Free Energy Model (IFEM)