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Small drops or bubbles will tend to be spherical because surface forces depend on the area, which decreases as the square of the linear dimension, whereas distortions due to gravitational effects depend on the volume, which decreases as the cube of the linear dimension. Likewise, too, a drop of liquid in a second liquid of equal density will be spherical. However, when gravitational and surface tensional effects are comparable, then one can determine in principle the surface tension from measurements of the shape of the drop or bubble. The variations situations to which Eq. 11-16 applies are shown in Fig. 11-16. 

In a drop extractor, liquid droplets of approximate uniform size and spherical shape are formed at a series of nozzles and rise eountercurrently through the continuous phase which is flowing downwards at a velocity equal to one half of the terminal rising velocity of the droplets. The flowrates of both phases are then increased by 25 per cent. Because of the greater shear rate at the nozzles, the mean diameter of the droplets is however only 90 per cent of the original value. By what factor will the overall mass transfer rate change ... 

A small amount of a liquid tends to take a spherical shape For example, mercury drops are nearly spherical and water drips from a faucet in nearly spherical liquid droplets. Surface tension, which measures the resistance of a liquid to an increase in its surface area, is the physical property responsible for this behavior. 

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The fundamental property of liquid surfaces is that they tend to contract to the smallest possible area. This property is observed in the spherical form of small drops of liquid, in the tension exerted by soap films as they tend to become less extended, and in many other properties of liquid surfaces. In the absence of gravity effects, these curved surfaces are described by the Laplace equation, which relates the mechanical forces as (Adamson and Gast, 1997 Chattoraj and Birdi, 1984 Birdi, 1997) ... 

The value of Rl within a falling drop of liquid is of interest in view of the applications of spray absorbers. A wind-tunnel (59) for the study of individual liquid drops, balanced in a stream of gas, has shown (60) that Rl for a drop depends on its shape, velocity, oscillations, and internal circulation. The drop will remain roughly spherical only if... 

It has been shown that the nucleus is approximately spherical in shape and of volume proportional approximately to its mass, It is, however, capable of executing oscillations about the spherical form, and in certain circumstances may even acquire a permanent deformation. The heaviest nuclei are unstable under deformation, as a result of which they undergo spontaneous fission. These properties may be described qualitatively by regarding the nucleus as an electrically charged drop of liquid possessing volume energy and surface tension. 

Although the dominant mixing mechanism of an immiscible liquid polymeric system appears to be stretching the dispersed phase into filament and then form droplets by filament breakup, individual small droplet may also break up at Ca 3> Ca. A detailed review of this mechanism is given by Janssen (34). The deformation of a spherical liquid droplet in a homogeneous flow held of another liquid was studied in the classic work of G. I. Taylor (35), who showed that for simple shear flow, a case in which interfacial tension dominates, the drop would deform into a spheroid with its major axis at an angle of 45° to the how, whereas for the viscosity-dominated case, it would deform into a spheroid with its major axis approaching the direction of how (36). Taylor expressed the deformation D as follows... 

Ostwald2 pointed out that, just as the vapour pressure of small drops of liquid is greater than that of large drops, so the vapour pressure and solubility of small solid particles is greater than that of large. The relation between the radius, surface tension, and vapour pressure or solubility of spherical particles is the same as that deduced in Chap. I, 15, for small drops. 

Granules made by aging liquid drops spherical 1-20 mm Packed tubular reactors, moving beds... 

Now, consider again a spherical liquid drop. Because of the curvature of the interface, there is a pressure difference between the inside and outside of the drop. This difference exists because of the interfacial tension, which tends to reduce the area of the liquid system, so that equilibrium is maintained with a higher pressure inside the drop than the atmospheric pressure outside. If the radius of the drop is r, its surface area is 4nr. The incremental work dvrs done in increasing the radius by dr is... 

Now, conversely, if we consider a spherical liquid drop in air, having a radius of r, the vapor pressure of a drop, Pcv > P that is Pv is higher than that of the same liquid with a flat surface, Pv (the superscript c indicates a curved surface). If d mol of liquid evaporates from the drop and condenses onto the bulk flat liquid under isothermal and reversible conditions, the free-energy change of this process can be written by differentiating Equation (155) as... 

Next, a method was developed to determine the initial peripheral contact angle, 9, of sessile drops on solid surfaces from the diffusion controlled rate of drop evaporation, for the constant drop contact radius mode. Application of this method requires use of the product of the vapor diffusion coefficient of the evaporating liquid, with its vapor pressure at the drop surface temperature (l)APv), which can be found directly from independent experiments following the evaporation of fully spherical liquid drops in the same chamber. It is then possible to calculate 9,p, from... 

Brignell, A. S., Solute extraction from an internally circulating spherical liquid drop, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 61-68,1975. 

This increased surface force is responsible for the spherical shape of drops of liquid. Drops of water "beading" on a polished surface, such as a waxed automobile, illustrate this effect. 

MASS TRANSFER TO DROPS AND BUBBLES. When small drops of liquid are falling through a gas, surface tension tends to make the drops nearly spherical, and the coefiBcients for mass transfer to the drop surface are often quite close to those for solid spheres. The shear caused by the fluid moving past the drop surface, however, sets up toroidal circulation currents in the drop that decrease the resistance to mass transfer both inside and outside the drop. The extent of the change depends on the ratio of the viscosities of the internal and external fluids and on the presence or absence of substances such as surfactants that concentrate at the interface. ... 

An alternative approach to obtaining the liquid-vapour or liquid-liquid interfacial tension is based on the shape of a pendant drop. In essence, the shape of a drop is determined by a combination of surface tension and gravity effects. Surface forces tend to make drops spherical whereas gravity tends to elongate a pendant drop. Fig. 4.14 shows the schematic of a pendent drop set-up and an example of the images one gets (see for details [186, 187]). 

A molecule in the interior of a liquid interacts equally in all directions with its neighbors. Molecules at the surface of a liquid that is in contact with its vapor experience an unbalanced intermolecular force normal to the surface, which results in a net inward attraction on the surface molecules. Subsequently, drops of liquids tend to minimize their surface area and to form an ideal spherical shape in the absence of other forces. Similarly, a liquid that is suspended in another immiscible liquid so as to eliminate the effects of gravity also tends to become spherical. Work must be done in creating a new surface. A fundamental relation of surface chemistry is shown in Eq. (1) ... 

Consider a spherical liquid drop in a boundless gas medium. The liquid phase represents a solution consisting of inhibitor-water solution of methanol. Denote molar fractions of water and methanol in a drop through Xw and Xm- The gas phase represents multi-component mixture including natural gas with molar concentration of components yi, as well as water and methanol vapor y and ym, respectively. At the initial moment of time t = 0 drop and gas temperatures Tjx) and Tco, molar concentration of liquid x o, Xmo and gas yjo, y o, fmo phases, and drop radius Ro are specified. 

Surface tension results in a tendency for drops of liquid or gas bubbles to minimize their surface areas. If there are no other forces such as gravity at work, they will assume a spherical shape because a sphere has the smallest surface area for a given volume. Large drops grow at the cost of smaller ones because this also leads to a minimizing of the total surface area (Experiment 15.1). 

Present knowledge of the terminal velocity of drops in liquids is very high. Small droplets often move a little bit faster than equivalent rigid spheres due to the mobility of the drop surface. Large drops, however, move significantly slower since they lose their spherical shape. Experimental data of the terminal velocity of some organic drops in water are shown in Fig. 6.4-1. The dimensionless terminal velocity is plotted vs. the dimensionless drop diameter. For comparison, the terminal velocity of equivalent rigid spheres is also shown. 

It is useful to work through the derivation of this equation for a spherical surface to be certain of the relationship between surface tension and pressure, since pressure is the driving force for capillary action. If one takes a spherical drop of liquid of radius r and adds more liquid so that the radius increases by a factor dr, the surface area of the drop will increase by a factor 8jrr dr (Fig. 6.5). As seen in Chapter 2, the amount of work that must be done to expand a surface or interface is given by... 

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