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Because high quaHty, low cost, and optimum performance are required for spray equipment, improved analytical and experimental tools are iadispensable for increasing productivity ia many competitive iadustries. In most iastances, it is no longer adequate to characterize a spray solely on the basis of flow rate and spray pattern. Information on droplet size, velocity, volume flux, and number density is often needed and can be determined usiag advanced laser diagnostic techniques. These improvements have benefited a wide spectmm of consumer and specialized iadustrial products. 

The phase Doppler method utilizes the wavelength of light as the basis of measurement. Hence, performance is not vulnerable to fluctuations in light intensity. The technique has been successfully appHed to dense sprays, highly turbulent flows, and combustion systems. It is capable of making simultaneous measurements of droplet size, velocity, number density, and volume flux. 

When consistent units are used, the particle size will either be in meters or feet. The equation contains effects of cyclone size, velocity, viscosity, and density of solids. In practice, a design curve as given in Fig. 17-39 uses Dptk the size at which 50 percent of sohds of a given size are collected by the cyclone. The material entering the cyclone is divided into fractional sizes, and the collecdion efficiency for each size is determined. The total efficiency of coUection is the sum of the col-lecdion efficiencies of the cuts. 

Generally, the occurrence of a specific mode is determined by droplet impact properties (size, velocity, temperature), surface properties (temperature, roughness, wetting), and their thermophysical properties (thermal conductivity, thermal capacity, density, surface tension, droplet viscosity). It appeared that the surface temperature and the impact Weber number are the most critical factors governing both the droplet breakup behavior and ensuing heat transfer. I335 412 415]... 

Detailed modeling study of practical sprays has a fairly short history due to the complexity of the physical processes involved. As reviewed by O Rourke and Amsden, 3l() two primary approaches have been developed and applied to modeling of physical phenomena in sprays (a) spray equation approach and (b) stochastic particle approach. The first step toward modeling sprays was taken when a statistical formulation was proposed for spray analysis. 541 Even with this simplification, however, the mathematical problem was formidable and could be analyzed only when very restrictive assumptions were made. This is because the statistical formulation required the solution of the spray equation determining the evolution of the probability distribution function of droplet locations, sizes, velocities, and temperatures. The spray equation resembles the Boltzmann equation of gas dynamics[542] but has more independent variables and more complex terms on its right-hand side representing the effects of nucleations, collisions, and breakups of droplets. 

In the second method, i.e., th particle method 546H5471 a spray is discretized into computational particles that follow droplet characteristic paths. Each particle represents a number of droplets of identical size, velocity, and temperature. Trajectories of individual droplets are calculated assuming that the droplets have no influence on surrounding gas. A later method, 5481 that is restricted to steady-state sprays, includes complete coupling between droplets and gas. This method also discretizes the assumed droplet probability distribution function at the upstream boundary, which is determined by the atomization process, by subdividing the domain of coordinates into computational cells. Then, one parcel is injected for each cell. 

Liu et aU622] used a laser Doppler velocity and size (LDVS) measurement technique to determine the local size, velocity, and number flow density of droplets in the spray cone during spray deposition of a liquid steel. The experimental setup is schematically depicted in Fig. 6.7.1615] The measured results showed that smaller... 

Water spray—Water discharged from nozzles, specially designed to give a certain pattern, particle size, velocity, and density at a given application rate. 

A two-component phase Doppler interferometer (PDI) was used to determine droplet size, velocity, and number density in spray flames. The data rates were determined according to the procedure discussed in [5]. Statistical properties of the spray at every measurement point were determined from 10,000 validated samples. In regions of the spray where the droplet number density was too small, a sampling time of several minutes was used to determine the spray statistical characteristics. Results were repeatable to within a 5% margin for mean droplet size and velocity. Measurements were carried out with the PDI from the spray centerline to the edge of the spray, in increments of 1.27 mm at an axial position (z) of 10 mm downstream from the nozzle, and increments of 2.54 mm at z = 15 mm, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 50, and 60 mm using steam, normal-temperature air, and preheated air as the atomization gas. 

Droplet Size/Velocity Distributions and Arrival Times... 

Spray Dynamic Structure. Detailed measurements of spray dynamic parameters are necessary to understand the process of droplet dispersion. Improvements in phase Doppler particle analyzers (PDPA) permit in situ measurements of droplet size, velocity, number density, and liquid flux, as well as detailed turbulence characteristics for very small regions within the spray. 

Consider a collision between two frictionless elastic spheres so that only normal force and normal velocities are involved i. e., no tangential forces or tangential velocities need to be accounted for in this case. A general case is shown in Fig. 2.15, where two spheres with different sizes, velocities, and material properties collide with each other. Only the collisional force is considered. 

The experimental data permit the extension of cold-flow work resulting in the desired high temperature, oil penetration correlations. The additional information on particle sizes, velocities, and spray stability was used to confirm and revise our present understanding of the flashing/ atomization/vaporization phenomena occurring in the ACR. 

Measurements have been made of the combustion characteristics of an air blast kerosene spray flame and of droplet sizes within the spray boundary of isothermal sprays. Specific techniques were used to measure velocity, temperature, concentration, and droplet size. Velocities measured by laser anemometer in spray flames in some areas are 400% higher than those in isothermal sprays. Temperature profiles are similar to those of gaseous diffusion flames. Gas analyses indicate the formation of intermediate reactants, e.g., CO and Hg, in the cracking process. Rosin-Rammler mean size and size distribution of droplets in isothermal sprays are related to atomizer efficiency and subsequent secondary atomizer/vaporization effects. 

Numerical results obtained by Han and Lawler (25) for the effects of hydrodynamic interactions on particle transport by fluid shear are summarized graphically in Figure 9. These results are based on the work of Adler (26). The effects of particle size, velocity gradient, and van der Waals interaction are characterized by a dimensionless group, HA, defined as follows ... 

Although the Weibull model allows qualitative description of the sensor reliability and thus the comparison Q15 to other variants, more specific experiments were needed to identify and understand the parameters of the failure mechanism itself. Thus, dedicated experiments, accompanied by simulations, were designed. With this setup, it became feasible to test several membranes differing in thickness, layer composition, and length/width ratio in a reasonable amount of time. The effects of particle size, velocity, and intensity Q16 on lifetime were also investigated. 

Houben, J.M. (1988) Relation of the adhesion of plasma sprayed coatings to the process parameters size, velocity and heat content of the spray particles. Doctoral thesis/dissertation. TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands. 

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