Abstract:
Four liquid-liquid systems with different miscibility are selected to study theeffect of surface active substance on single drops mass transfer.By measuring the masstransfer rate and interfacial tension experimentally,the dependence of mass transfer coeffi-cient and interfacial activity on miscibility is discovered.Experimental result shows that theeffects of miscibility on interfacial activity and mass transfer rate are obvious.It also showsthat for a partially miscible system with low interfacial tension,the interfacial tension is notthe principle factor which decides the degree of effect of surface active substance on masstransfer rate.