Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140100677

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP140100677

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Breaking emulsions. Droplet coalescence is the key to breaking emulsions, that is, separating oil from water. This process underpins the recovery of crude oil and the remediation of industrial and environmental waste-waters. Through a unique and novel experimental program that simultaneously tracks drop trajectories up to the millimetre scale and drop deformations in the nanometre scale, this project aims to fill a fundamental gap in our understanding of such coalescence events. A complete theoretical model of coalescence will result, forming a predictive framework for separating emulsions to recover pure oil and water, and laying the foundation for using compound drops to tune the optical properties of surface for speciality applications.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2014

End Date: 05-01-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $340,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Transport Properties and Non-Equilibrium Processes | Soft Condensed Matter | Colloid and Surface Chemistry | Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Technology |

Other Keywords

Colloid and Surface Chemistry | Expanding Knowledge in Technology | Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural) | Soft Condensed Matter | Transport Properties and Non-Equilibrium Processes

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