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The present paper relates to an improved method for making surfactant esters, especially sorbitan monostearate and tristearate. Sorbitan esters of fatty acid, stéarate are derived from a reaction between sorbitan and fatty acid. Method of sorbitan ester production needs addition of catalyst. Sorbitan stéarate production was studied using chemical catalyst. Two steps process leading sorbitan production under atmospheric and vacuum pressure with acid catalyst resulted dehydrated product at optimal residence time of 195 min at 180°C for atmospheric conditions and optimalresidence time of 150 min at the same temperature respectively. Sorbitan stearate production was studied by utilizing sorbitan... 

Researchers in Germany and Iran have looked at methods of manufacturing wear parts using nanostructured hardmetal combined with a cheaper stainless steel component in pursuit of cost effectiveness. Nanostructured WC-10%Co-0.9%VC and 316L SS powders were used as starting materials. A polymer-wax binder composed of polyethylene copolymer-ethylene vinyl acetate, carnauba wax, paraffin and stearic acid was used to prepare the hardmetal feedstock in a laboratory kneader with z-mixing blades at a temperature of 120°C. The assembled PIM parts were sintered in a laboratory sintering furnace under nitrogen according to different sintering cycles in the temperature range of 1320-1360°C with a heating... 

The fracture toughness and deformation mechanism of PP/CaCO3 (15 wt.%) composites were studied and related to load-bearing capacity of the particles. To alter the load-bearing capacity of the particles, different particle sizes (0.07-7 μm) with or without stearic acid coating were incorporated. The fracture toughness of the composites was determined using J-Integral method and the deformation mechanism was studied by transmission optical microscopy of the crack tip damage zone. It was observed that the load-bearing capacity of the particles decreased by reduction of particle size and application of coating. A linear relationship between normalized fracture toughness and inverse of... 

Over 60% of the world's discovered oil reserves are held in carbonate reservoirs, which are mostly naturally fractured. Conventional water flooding results in low oil recovery efficiency in these reservoirs as most of them are oil-wet. On account of negative capillary forces, injected brine cannot penetrate simply into an oil-wet matrix of fractured formations to force the oil out. Wettability alteration of the rock surface to preferentially more water-wet state has been extensively studied using both smart water and surfactants separately. This study aims to study the effects of Mg2+ as one of the most important wettability influencing ions on the wetting properties of oil-wet carbonate...