Flash atomization of water/acetone solutions

Atomization and Sprays

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 459-475

  Gemci, T ^a   Yakut, K ^a   Chigier, N ^a   Ho, T C ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; ATOMIZATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); PRESSURE EFFECTS; PROPELLANTS; WATER;

FLASH ATOMIZATION; GAS-TO-LIQUID RATIO; NOZZLE EXIT; PRESSURE CONSTRAINTS;

NOZZLES;

ACETONE; ATOMIZATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); NOZZLES; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PROPELLANTS; WATER;

EID: 1542294498     PISSN: 10445110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/AtomizSpr.v14.i5.30     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. R. T. Knapp, J. W. Daily, and F. G. Hammitt, Cavitation, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, 1970.
2. C. E. Brennen, Cavitation and Bubble Dynamics, Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1995.
3. Y. T. Shah, A. B. Pandit, and V. S. Moholkar, Cavitation Reaction Engineering, Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York, NY, 1999.
4. R. Brown and J. L. York, Sprays Formed by Flashing Liquid Jets, AICbE J., vol. 8, no.2, pp. 149-153, 1962.
5. R. D. Oza, On the Mechanism of Flashing Injection of Initially Subcooled Fuels, J. Fluids Eng., vol. 106, pp. 105-109, 1984.
6. B. S. Park and S. Y. Lee, An Experimental Investigation of the Flash Atomization Mechanism, Atomization and Sprays, vol. 4, pp. 159-179, 1994.
7. M. Razzaghi, Droplet Size Estimation of Two-Phase Flashing Jets, Nuclear Eng. Design, vol. 114, pp. 115-124, 1989.
8. A. Wildgen and J. Straub, The Boiling Mechanism in Superheated Free Jets, Int. J. Multiphase Flow, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 193-207, 1989.
9. Y. Kitamura, H. Morimitsu, and T. Takahashi, Critical Superheat for Flashing of Superheated Liquid Jets, Ind. Eng. Chem. Fundam., vol. 25, pp. 206-211, 1970.
10. M. Zeigerson-Katz and E. Sher, Fuel Atomization by Flashing of a Volatile Liquid in a Liquid Jet, SAE Paper 960111, pp. 243-250, 1996.
11. B. A. Vanderwege and S. Hochgreb, The Effect of Fuel Volatility on Sprays from High-Pressure Swirl Injectors, Twenty-Seventh Symp. (Int.) on Combustion, vol. 2, pp. 1865-1871, The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1998.
12. L. He and F. Ruiz, Effect of Cavitation on Flow and Turbulence in Plain Orifices for High-Speed Atomization, Atomization and Sprays, vol. 5, pp. 569-584, 1995.
13. A. Mansour, N. Chigier, T. I.-P. Shih, and R. L. Kozarek, The Effect of the Hartman Cavity on the Performance of the USGA Nozzle Used for Aluminum Spray Forming, Atomization and Sprays, vol. 8, pp. 1-24, 1998.
14. N. Tamaki, M. Shimizu, and H. Hiroyasu, Enhancement of the Atomization of a Liquid Jet by Cavitation in a Nozzle Hole, Atomization and Sprays, vol. 11, pp. 125-137, 2001.
15. R. Hitron, N. Chigier, and T. C. Ho, Cavitation Enhanced Atomization at Low Liquid Superheat-Conditions, ILASS-Americas' 99, Indianapolis, IN, 16-19 May 1999, pp. 225-229.
16. T. Gemci, K. Yakut, N. Chigier, and T. C. Ho, Cavitation and Flash Boiling Atomization of Water/Acetone Binary Mixtures, ILASS-Americas' 2001, Dearborn, MI, 20-23 May 2001, pp. 241-246.
17. T. Gemci, K. Yakut, N. Chigier, and T. C. Ho, Cavitation Enhanced Flash Atomization of Hydrocarbon Liquids, ILASS-Europe' 2001, Zurich, Switzerland, 2-6 September 2001.
18. N. Nagai, K. Sato, and Ch. W. Lee, Atomization Characteristics of Superheated Liquid Jets, Proc. ICLASS 1985.