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The basic features of the two models can be summarized as follows. In the CRM, the droplets shrink until the resulting instability breaks up the parent droplet into a hatch of offspring droplets, each of which continues to evaporate until it too reaches the Rayleigh limit. This sequence continues until the offspring droplets ultimately become so small that they contain only one analyte... 

For emulsifled fuel droplet combustion, the kinetic criteria for the onset of nucleation, and hence the possible rupturing of the parent droplet, are required. If nucleation is likely to occur at the interface between the micro-droplets and the bulk liquid medium, then the influence of the emulsifying agents on the onset of nucleation should be assessed also. At the surface of the parent droplet, the vapor concentration depends on the accessibility of the molecules of the hquid phases to those of the gas phase. It is conceivable that the emulsifying agents and/or surface tension effects can prevent the dispersed hquid-phase micro-droplets from being in contact with the gas, hence effectively inhibiting its vaporization. 

There has recently been some interest in nanoflow LC as a mean of normalizing the mass spectrometric response [55-58], Nanospray is more than simply a reduction of ESI flow rate. ESI is an electrohydrodynamic process, with daughter droplets generated when Columb repulsion in a charged liquid (the parent droplet) overcomes... 

The difference of the models presented by Reitz and Diwakar [9] and Reitz [10] lies in the handling of the product droplets. In the first approach, no distinction is made between the parent and product drops when their size is updated. In fact, the parent drop decays into products of identical size and no small drops are created. In the second approach, the product droplets and the parent droplets are treated differently while the size of the parent drop is still governed by the same rate equation, its mass decrease is compensated by the creation of product droplets of size r. With this breakup strategy there are more small droplets produced. 

As for a charged droplet, probably the most striking phenomenon is the spike behavior at the pole of a stretching droplet that ejects atomized droplets whose mass constitutes less than 1% of the parent droplet, but carrying more than one third of the total charges. This jetting of the spike occurs when the droplet charge exceeds... 

In Fig. 32.11 the y axis shows the number densities and the x axis is the distance radially from the center of the emitter orifice. The various curves of different z values show the results of various analyses performed at distances z from the emitter orifice along the spray axis. It is interesting to note the double hump that forms very close to the emitter orifice. This can be related to the formation of satellite and offspring droplets which are smaller in size than the parent droplets and hence are pushed away from the center due to mutual Coulombic repulsion. The spreading out of the droplets over a large radial distance from the spray axis can be attributed to the strongly divergent electric field near the capillary tip. 

Once new droplets are created, the product droplet velocity is computed by adding a factor Wbu to the primary drop velocity. This additional velocity is randomly distributed in a plane normal to the relative velocity vector between the gas phase and parent drop, and the magnitude is determined by the radius of the parent drop and the breakup frequency, wbu = ru. This modification of newly formed droplets follows the physical picture of parent droplets being tom apart by aerodynamic forces giving momentum to the newly formed droplets in the direction normal to the relative velocity between the gas phase and parent drops [17]. As new droplets are formed, parent droplets are destroyed and Lagrangian tracking in the physical space is continued till further breakup events. 

Most experiments used Phase Doppler Interferometry (PDI), a method well suited for volatile solvents as used in ESI-MS [27]. A series of PDI measurements using various solvents are given in Table 1.2. One can deduce from this table that the dependence on the type of solvent is relatively small. Thus, droplets from all solvents experience Coulomb fissions close to, or at, the Rayleigh limit. The loss of mass on fission is between 2 and 5% of the parent droplet mass but the loss of charge is much larger, that is, some 15-25% of the charge of the parent droplet. 

Figure 1.5 Droplet histo of charged water droplets produced by nanospray. First droplet is one of the droplets produced at spray needle. This parent droplet is followed over three evaporation and fission events. The first generation progeny droplets are shown as well as the fission of one of the progeny droplets that leads to second-generation progeny droplets.

Using the droplet radii, one can evaluate that approximately 40% of the volume is lost between each fission. A corresponding increase by 40% of the solute concentration must also occur. This means that after 10 successive fissions of the parent droplet, its volume will decrease 29-fold and the concentration of solutes in the droplet will also increase 29-fold. 

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