The Influence of Channel Orientation and Flow Rates on the Bubble Formation in a Liquid Cross-Flow
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Abstract
For gas turbines burning liquid fuels, improving fuel spray and combustion characteristics are of paramount importance to reduce emission of pollutants, improve combustor efficiency and adapt to a range of alternative fuels. Effervescent atomization technique, which involves the bubbling of an atomizing gas through aerator holes into the liquid fuel stream, has the potential to give the required spray quality for gas turbine combustion. Bubbling of the liquid stream is presently used in a wide range of other applications as well such as spray drying, waste-water treatment, chemical plants, food processing and bio- and nuclear-reactors. In order to optimize control of the required aeration quality and thus the resulting spray quality over a wide range of operating conditions, it is important that the dynamics of bubble formation, detachment and downstream transport are well understood under these circumstances. The paper reports on an experimental study conducted to investigate the dynamics of gas bubbles in terms of bubble detachment frequency when injected from an orifice that is subjected to a liquid cross-flow. The experiments were conducted over a range of gas and liquid flow rates and at various orientations of the liquid channel. Analyses presented here are based on shadowgraph images of two-phase flow, acquired using a high speed camera and a low intensity light source. An image processing algorithm was developed for the detection and characterization of the bubble dynamics. Results show that bubble detachment frequency is a function of both liquid cross-flow rate and the gas-to-liquid flow rate ratio.
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| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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