Emulsification in a microfluidic flow-focusing device: Effect of the dispersed phase viscosity

Z Liu, M Chai, X Chen, SH Hejazi, Y Li - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Flow regimes of two immiscible liquids are experimentally investigated in a rectangular
microchannel using a water–oil system. Oil-water viscosity ratios are varied from 0.2 to 75 …

Fast oil-in-water emulsification in microchannel using head-on impinging configuration: Effect of swirl motion

Y Ji, J Bellettre, A Montillet, P Massoli - International Journal of Multiphase …, 2020 - Elsevier
Liquid–liquid dispersion by head-on impingement in a cross-slot microfluidic device to form
oil-in-water emulsion is experimentally investigated at broad range of flow rate conditions …

Emulsification in a microfluidic flow-focusing device: effect of the viscosities of the liquids

Z Nie, MS Seo, S Xu, PC Lewis, M Mok… - Microfluidics and …, 2008 - Springer
We report the results of a comparative study of microfluidic emulsification of liquids with
different viscosities. Depending on the properties of the fluids and their rates of flow …

Effect of surfactants on drop formation flow patterns in a flow-focusing microchannel

M Kalli, P Angeli - Chemical Engineering Science, 2022 - Elsevier
The formation of droplets in an immiscible liquid in the presence of different surfactants was
studied experimentally using a flow-focusing microchannel. A low viscosity silicone oil (4.6 …

Water-in-oil emulsification in a microfluidic impinging flow at high capillary numbers

A Belkadi, D Tarlet, A Montillet, J Bellettre… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
The formation of water-in-oil disperse flows is investigated in a microfluidic device. The
liquid–liquid flow mainly differs from these presented in the existing literature in its high …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of surfactant on emulsification in microchannels

NM Kovalchuk, E Roumpea, E Nowak… - Chemical engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
Drop formation in a microfluidic flow-focusing device (cross-junction) was studied in
absence and presence of one of two ionic surfactants. Four different flow regimes …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental studies on droplet formation in a flow-focusing microchannel in the presence of surfactants

E Roumpea, NM Kovalchuk, M Chinaud… - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
The formation of an aqueous droplet in an organic continuous phase was studied
experimentally inside a flow-focusing microchannel (190 μm× 195 μm: depth× width) in the …

Effect of viscosities of dispersed and continuous phases in microchannel oil-in-water emulsification

K van Dijke, I Kobayashi, K Schroën, K Uemura… - Microfluidics and …, 2010 - Springer
Although many aspects of microchannel emulsification have been covered in literature, one
major uncharted area is the effect of viscosity of both phases on droplet size in the stable …

Water-in-oil droplet formation in a flow-focusing microsystem using pressure-and flow rate-driven pumps

S Lignel, AV Salsac, A Drelich, E Leclerc… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2017 - Elsevier
Microfluidic flow-focusing systems are simple and cheap devices to produce monodisperse
emulsions. The objective of the study is to determine the flow conditions to create water-in …

Hydrodynamics of triple emulsion droplet generation in a flow-focusing microfluidic device

W Yu, B Li, X Liu, Y Chen - Chemical Engineering Science, 2021 - Elsevier
A numerical research is conducted to investigate the triple emulsion droplet generation in a
three-dimensional axisymmetric flow-focusing device. The simulation predicts three flow …