Effect of Gas Permeability and Solubility on Foam

Table 1

Properties of the gases used in the experiments. is the single foam film permeability to gas, is Henry’s solubility constant, is the molecular diffusion coefficient, and is critical time of coarsening.

Gas type	^1; (m/s)	(—)	^3; (10^−3 cP)	^3; (10^5 cm^2/s)	(10^5 cm^2/s)	(s)
CO2	7.85	0.831	14.80	1.90	1.580	5
He	0.398	0.0093	19.41	6.8	0.063	1440
Flue gas	0.163^4	0.177	16.78^6	1.98	0.350	179
N2	0.131	0.0132	17.40	2.0	0.026	118
CH4	0.30	0.032	10.87	1.90	0.061	308
50% CH4-50% CO2	0.5767^4	0.416	13.32^6	1.97^5	0.820	65

Data taken from Princen et al., 1976 [12], and Princen and Mason, 1965 [13].
²Data taken from Sander, 1999 [46].
³Data taken from CRC handbook of chemistry and physics, 1980 [47].
⁴Calculated using (1).
⁵Perry’s chemical engineering handbook, chapter 2 [48].
⁶Calculated by (7) of Norman et al., 1954 [49].
⁷Calculated from (3) of Hilgenfeldt et al., 2001 [32].