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PrediMulsion packages HLD (Hydrophilic-Lipophilic Difference) parameters of commercial ingredients and formulation knowledge into a digital tool. It is used for surfactant selection and blending to achieve maximum performance, depending on composition and conditions.
By using automation to obtain HLD parameters and test the emulsions properties, VLCI offers an unprecedented wide view of the formulation space. PrediMulsion is used to develop emulsions, microemulsions and surfactant blends in every field; personal/home care, coating resins, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, etc.
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HLD of commercial ingredients available, determined experimentally “as provided.”
Predict (in)compatibility and stability of emulsions for all industrial sectors.
Find matching, replacing and bridging ingredients 100x faster and reduce formulation space a 10-fold.
Select surfactants or design surfactant blends based on the desired properties.
Develop (biobased) formulations and select optimum ingredients from everywhere.
PrediMulsion Formulation Workflow
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Input your emulsion conditions and desired properties
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Search and filter candidate ingredients in a visual platform
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Select optimum ingredients, create custom surfactant or oil blends
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Save recipe and then go in the lab to validate
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Privately save and share recipes and datasets
Database of Predictive Parameters
Database of Predictive Parameters
Largest HLD dataset of commercial ingredients in the world. 200+ ingredients experimentally characterized, more each month!
Experimentally determined parameters through emulsification trials.
Users vote on ingredients to add, leading to new formulation trends.
Raw material suppliers can offer their ingredient portfolio to formulators.
Experts on Predictive formulation science
VLCI has been a spearhead for HLD in the industry since 2011, taking lessons and models from Academia and deploying them in the market. We offer ingredient HLD characterizations, training sessions, applied formulation support and HTE for sample preparation and testing.
Oils and surfactants are characterized via emulsification scans with known ingredients and evaluated according to their Winsor type (W/O, O/W, microemulsion). The phase change is defined as HLD = 0 (Microemulsion), which allows to determine the HLD characteristic parameters of each ingredient.
The HLD equation can then be used to model the SOW system and predict the properties of any emulsion.
Choose your PrediMulsion License
- PrediMulsionSingle€ 2,000P/YFeatures
Full Access to PrediMulsion (Web-App + Database)
Send Ingredients of interest to characterize
Privately load (and/or store) your own HLD datasets
- PrediMulsionTeam€ 5,000P/YFeatures
All benefits from PrediMulsion Single +
3 Collaborative licences
Option to share your private databases with the team
- PrediMulsionCorporateFeatures
All benefits from PrediMulsion Team +
Transfer licences between users
Custom API for programmatic access to datasets
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Frequently Asked Questions
Each ingredient is tested via a standard set of emulsification trials. By evaluating the resulting emulsion types (Oil in water, water in oil, or microemulsion), parameters can be calculated for each ingredient.
The general HLD equation allows to compose those parameters and predict the properties of the resulting emulsion; or set some requirements and select the ingredients better suited for your application.
PrediMulsion allows you to study the influence of each ingredient in your emulsions, select the most suitable options to maximize your desired properties, and provides a clear visualization of emulsion types and surfactant behaviours in HLD space.
It can also show your ingredient’s HLD parameters in our database, so other users can find them and use them to develop new formulations. A great exposure for ingredient suppliers!
PredictID joins experimental data from VLCI’s standard workflow and bibliographic references from the leading research teams. It is the largest database of commercial ingredient HLD parameters, and it is growing every month.
It now contains 100+ Oil EACN’s and 100+ Characterized surfactants (Cc, Salinity and temperature parameters). And it will be expanded with a database of salts and active ingredients in the (near) future.
Each HLD parameter’s source is clearly labelled, as the aim is to centralize all available data to provide the user all information available. Users can also privately load their own ingredients or datasets to work in the webapp.
Yes, there are two (free) avenues to add an ingredient to the database:
When you first join our formulation community, you can provide us with a list of essential components for your daily work, and we will determine them for free.
All users can vote for ingredients to be added to VLCI’s internal determination. This way the database grows aligned with the interests of the community.
New suppliers get 10 initial experimental HLD determinations for free!
And VLCI also offers confidential parameter determinations and application studies on demand (for a fee).
Yes! HLD started in EOR, but since then it has expanded to all industrial sectors and applications. Cleaners, cosmetics, coating resins, agrochemicals, pharma…
It has helped countless formulators improve their desired properties, troubleshoot their formulations, and improve the stability (or instability!) of their products. PrediMulsion provides a unique insight into emulsions!
Well, emulsion science is still very much unsolved. The incredibly complex interactions in a SOW system cannot yet be fully modelled computationally, and the strong dependencies to the processing and environmental variables make DoE a losing battle with no extrapolation potential. Searching online you will soon find HLB. We must encourage you to keep reading until you find testimonials of its uses and application in the real world before you invest in that theory.
HLD, being semi-empirical (experimental parameters, computational model) has been the most successful framework developed to date, and it is continuously expanding with contributions from industry and academia. The insight that it provides into the full emulsion system has been invaluable to us navigating processes and formulations.
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