The Science of Defoaming

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Author

After working for Unilever Research at Port Sunlight for more than a quarter of a

century, Peter Garrett retired, acquiring visiting professorships at the University of

Manchester in the United Kingdom and briey at Rice University, Houston, Texas.

He has worked on various aspects of interfacial science in a career lasting 40 years.

These included the equilibrium and dynamic adsorption behavior of surfactant solu-

tions, solubilization in microemulsions, kinetics of surfactant dissolution and meso-

phase growth, and of course both the basic science of defoaming and its application

especially in the detergents industry. He is author or coauthor of more than 30 journal

articles and is named as inventor on 14 patents, the majority of which concerned the

application of antifoam technology. He is also editor of the book Defoaming, Theory

and Applications published in 1993. A member of the Royal Society of Chemistry,

he received his PhD degree from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom

in 1971.