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http://dx.doi.org/10.11629/jpaar.2017.12.30.151

Size measurement of electrosprayed droplets using shadowgraph visualization method  

Oh, Min-Jeong (Thermochemical Energy System R&D Group, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology)
Kim, Sung-Hyun (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Korea University)
Lee, Myong-Hwa (Thermochemical Energy System R&D Group, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology)
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Particle and aerosol research / v.13, no.4, 2017 , pp. 151-158 More about this Journal
Abstract
Electrostatic precipitator is widely used to remove particulate matters in indoor air and industrial flue gas due to low pressure drop and high collection efficiency. However, it has a low collection efficiency for the submicrometer sized particles. Electrospraying is a potential method to increase the particle charging efficiency, which results in increased collection efficiency. Although particle charging efficiency is highly dependent upon droplet size, the effective measuring method of the droplets is still uncertain. Tap water was electrosprayed in this study, and the images of electrosprayed droplets were taken with a high speed camera coupled with several visualization methods in order to measure the droplets size. The droplet size distribution was determined by an image processing with an image-J program. As a result, a droplet measured by a laser visualization, had a half size of that by a Xenon light visualization. In addition, the experimentally measured droplet sizes were a good agreement with the predicted values suggested by $Fern{\acute{a}}ndez$ de la Mora and Loscertales(1994).
Keywords
Electrospray; Visualization; Charged droplet; Conductivity; Surface tension;
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