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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIPHASE FLOW
Volume 74, Issue -, Pages 84-95Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2015.04.004
Keywords
High pressure emulsification; Cavitation; Orifices; Choked flow; Hydraulic flip; Droplet size
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- German Ministry of Economics and Technology via AiF (Allianz Industrie Forschung) within IGF-program (Industrielle Gemeinschaftsforschung) [16303 N]
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This work investigates cavitation patterns after a cylindrical coaxial orifice at different orifice to outlet channel diameter ratios beta < 0.1. Further the influence of cavitation pattern on emulsion formation efficiency in high pressure homogenization is shown. At constant pressure loss (Delta p) and varying beta, three characteristic cavitation patterns (jet cavitation, choked cavitation and hydraulic flip) were detected via high speed imaging and acoustical measurement. The study shows that a surfactant concentration up to 10(-4) mol center dot L-1 and disperse phase content up to 10 wt.% do not influence cavitation pattern transition in the investigated fluid. Emulsification results indicate decreasing emulsification efficiency with increasing beta and thereby a strong correlation to the detected cavitation patterns. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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