Jm. Madiedo et al., INFLUENCE OF SURFACTANT CONCENTRATION AND TEMPERATURE ON THE FLOW BEHAVIOR OF SUCROSE OLEATE AQUEOUS SYSTEMS, Colloids and surfaces. A, Physicochemical and engineering aspects, 82(1), 1994, pp. 59-69
This paper deals with the flow behaviour of aqueous systems of a sucro
se oleate with a high hydrophilic lipophilic balance (HLB, 15). Influe
nces of temperature (10-45-degrees-C) and surfactant concentration (10
-45 wt.%) have been studied. The flow curves show both a limiting visc
osity at low shear rates and a shear-thinning region after a critical
shear rate that depends on temperature and sucrose oleate concentratio
n. Experimental flow curves have been shifted on a master curve using
the time-temperature superposition method. This master curve includes
all the experimental flow curves obtained with the systems having a su
crose oleate concentration between 10 and 30 wt.%. The shift factor sh
ows a complex dependence on temperature, having two different Arrheniu
s-like regions with two different activation energies. These results c
an be explained on the basis of the existence of a micellar phase at l
ow concentrations and temperatures and then a lamellar phase, complete
ly developed for concentrations higher than 35 wt.% surfactant.