Water spraying itself is a dynamic course, and it is affected not only by the structure of an ultrasonic gas atomizer and the compressed air pressure but also by the movement of the compressed air flow in an atomizer.
The fundamental principle of formation of fine droplets in the ultrasonic gas atomizer is that a liquid sheet is disrupted into droplets by the energy of high-velocity air. If the ultrasonic energy is supplied, finer droplets with high sphericity and uniform size distribution can be achieved.
Kim Kang Dok, a section head at the Faculty of Mining Engineering, has observed water atomization of an ultrasonic gas atomizer by numerical simulation with CFD software ANSYS Fluent, and found out about the generation of ultrasound and water fog in the ultrasonic gas atomizer with a resonance chamber together with ultrasound characters (frequency, pressure level, power level).
Recently, experimental researches to improve the features of ultrasonic atomizers by air spray have been conducted, but only a little about numerical simulation was presented except for some experimental data.
Thus, he has simulated the characters of ultrasonic air atomization using the finite volume method based on the Roe solver in the structure similar to the Hartmann resonance chamber. Then, he has looked closely at the occurrence of oscillation and the factors affecting the oscillation, and investigated the distribution character of water droplets.
The experimental conditions for the simulation were compressed air pressure 3.5~4atm, air amount 0.1㎥/min, acoustic power in the cavity resonator 242dB, acoustic power at the outlet 172dB.
The range of frequency is 20~120 kHz, where 21~28 kHz has the highest density. The acoustic power decreases with the distance when the pressure of the compressed air is 0.3MPa.
The determination of the distribution characteristics of the atomizer indicated that condensation of water droplets decreased rapidly from the distance of 3m. Thus, it is clear that the rational spray distance of the atomizer is 3m. The results show that the number density of water particles is 1.52×1010 in the center, but it is 6×108 in the diffusion region.
You can find more information about this in his paper “Numerical simulation on the generation of ultrasound and Formation of Water fog in the Ultrasonic gas atomizer” presented to the SCI Journal “ULTRASONICS”.
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