Surfactants and Colloids in the Environment [Paperback]

Surfactants and Colloids in the Environment presents the proceedings of the General Meeting of the German Colloid Society (Kolloid-Gesellschaft) held at the Research Center of J?lich (KFA), FRG, in 1993.
The volume emphasizes the importance of colloid chemistry in environmental research. Contributions on the physico-chemical behavior of colloids and surfaces in environmental technology demonstrate the high standard and usefulness of colloid science in this field: General colloid and environmental science complement each other. Thus, the detailed contributions in this volume will be useful toward solving some environmental problems.Opening address by the president of the kolloid-gesellschaft Prof. M. J. Schwuger.- Wolfgang Ostwald Prize 1993 awarded to Wolfgang Helfrich.- Steinkopff-prize 1993 recipient Du`an Vu?eli?.- Pathways of vesiculation.- Physico-chemical aspects of zeolite-A synthesis and application for environmental safe detergents.- Predicting synergism in binary mixtures of surfactants.- Environmental specimen bank of the federal republic of Germany  Significance of surfactants.- Bentonites: adsorbents of toxic substances.- Interaction between ionic surfactants and soil colloids: adsorption, wetting and structural properties.- Adsorption of ionic surfactants on clay minerals and new insights in hydrophobic interactions.- The clay/water interface and its role in the environment.- Thermochemistry and adsorption equilibria at hematite  water interface.- The kinetic spectrum method applied to the ion exchange of Cd(II) at Mg(II)-montmorillonite.- An approximative method for the transformation of kinetic sorption data from batch-experiments to transport processes in model soil columns.- Physicochemical aspects of in situ surfactant washing of oil contaminated soils.- Changes of the density of charge on mineral soil components by adsorption of some metabolites of hydrocarbons.- X-ray microscopy studies of aqueous colloid systems.-lƒ%