Wetting Characteristics of Oleate Monolayers Adsorbed at Calcium Mineral Surfaces:a Molecuar Dynamics Study

Beena, R and Sathish, P and Jyotsna, T and Pradip, (2006) Wetting Characteristics of Oleate Monolayers Adsorbed at Calcium Mineral Surfaces:a Molecuar Dynamics Study. In: Proceedings of the International Seminar on Mineral Processing Technology and Indo-Korean Workshop on Resource Recycling (MPT-2006), March 8-10, 2006, NML, Chennai.

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Abstract

In this paper we present our Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations results on the wettability characteristics
of the surfaces of three calcium minerals namely, fluorite, calcite and fluorapatite with an adsorbed
oleate monolayer in the presence of water. The contact angle of water on these oleate-adsorbed mineral surfaces are computed and compared with experimental values available in the literature. The modeled adsorbed oleate monolayers on calcite (104), fluorite 11 1 1 ) and fluoroapatite (100) are packed so as to achieve the most
favorable configuration, that is, 100%, 67% and 75% packing respectively.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Wetting characteristics; Oleate Monolayers; Calcium mineral surfaces
Subjects: Minerals and Mining
Divisions: Mineral Processing
Depositing User: Users 5 not found.
Date Deposited: 01 Dec 2012 06:58
Last Modified: 01 Dec 2012 06:58
URI: http://eprints.nmlindia.org/id/eprint/6231

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