In this paper, the comparison of the capabilities of machines as emulsifying equipments and the effect of emulsifying agent were investigated for O/W emulsion.
Flow Jet Mixer, Agitator, and Colloid-Mill were used as emulsifying equipments. Salad oil and the mixtures of n-C
7H
16 and CCl
4 were employed as the dispersed phase.
The droplet size distributions were measured by the microscopic method. Furthermore, the emulsion stability was determined by the turbidimetric method, in the presence of Tween as emulsifying agent.
The following results were obtained.
(1) The size distribution curves of emulsions prepared by Colloid-Mill and Flow Jet Mixer had sharper and narrower variance.
(2) Increase of times of emulsification through Flow Jet Mixer gave the smaller size droplets for the O/W emulsion.
(3) For the O/W emulsions, the order of decreasing stability was Tween-20>Tween-40>Tween-80>>Tween-21>Tween-81.
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