油水两相分散流的相界面浓度输运方程研究

通过对连续相湍流导致的油滴聚合和破裂现象的合理模化,本文建立了适用于垂直上升管油水两相分散流的相界面浓度输运方程.其中对连续相湍流驱动油滴随机碰撞引起的聚合现象模化时,考虑了两油滴间连续相液膜排出过程中的凹面膜效应.而在描述油滴与湍流涡随机碰撞导致的破裂现象时,考虑了破裂过程所产生油滴的大小不等的因素.利用所建立的相界面浓度输运方程对沿实验段轴向的相界面浓度变化进行了预测,结果与实验数据比较表明吻合很好.     

Effects of high-frequency and high-voltage pulsed electric field parameters on water chain formation

Separation methods utilizing high-frequency and high-voltage pulsed DC electric fields have been used extensively in the oil and petroleum industries, where the occurrence of water-in-oil dispersions is highly unwelcome because of physical constraints and the high maintenance costs required to treat these dispersions. This paper reports the results of studies of the effects of applied electric field parameters, including electric field strength, frequency, and duty ratio, on water chain formation in water-in-oil emulsions. The investigations were performed in a rectangular Perspex^® cell. The results of the studies show that dipole–dipole forces dominate the process of water chain formation. At low electric field strength, frequency, or duty ratio, dipole–dipole forces are negligible; therefore, the process of water chain formation and aqueous drop coalescence are inconspicuous. However, at high electric field strength, frequency, or duty ratio, significant dipole–dipole forces give rise to water chain formation and aqueous drop coalescence. At extremely high electric field strength, frequency, or duty ratio, aqueous drops are excessively polarized and disintegrate, inhibiting the processes of water chain formation and aqueous drop coalescence. The optimum electric field parameters for separation of water-in-oil dispersions are as follows: electric field strength, 3.80 kV cm⁻¹; frequency, 4.0 kHz; and duty ratio, 0.65.     

A simplified model of electrocoalescence of two close water droplets in oil

The conditions of electrocoalescence of close droplets of conducting liquid suspended in insulating oil under the action of an electric field are investigated. Previous results are first recalled and discussed. A physical picture allows justifying the asymptotic laws obtained for coalescence conditions of very close drops under a given potential difference. An extrapolation to the coalescence conditions of close droplets subjected to a uniform electric field is proposed and shortly discussed.     

倾斜均质表面上非等径液滴的聚合特性

对倾斜均匀表面上非等径液滴的聚合过程及特性进行了可视化实验研究,获得了液滴半径和表面倾角等参数对液滴聚合过程中液滴液桥半径、接触角和接触线变化特性的影响规律,进一步说明了倾斜表面上液滴聚合可以加快液滴的运动.     

碰撞聚合引起液滴数目变化的生灭过程模型

液滴碰撞聚合是气体/液滴两相流动中的重要现象.为研究碰撞聚合引起的液滴数目变化,考虑液相仅包含大小两类尺寸液滴的情形,计算不同尺寸的两个液滴间的碰撞概率,对固定观察区域内液滴的碰撞聚合、迁入及迁出因素作随机分析,建立描述液滴数目变化的生灭过程模型.由无条件概率模型方程,得出模型方程的相应平稳分布.以雨滴下落过程的质量增长为例,说明所得分布在气体液滴两相流动中的应用.     

倾斜均质表面上等径水滴聚合过程的可视化实验

对倾斜均匀表面上等直径水滴的聚合过程及特性进行了可视化实验研究,获得了水滴直径和表面倾角等参数对液滴聚合过程中液滴液桥半径、接触角和接触线变化特性的影响,分析了水滴聚合对其运动的影响.实验结果表明:表面倾角越大,下滑的临界半径越小;液滴的直径越大,液滴聚合后越容易下滑;液滴聚合可以加快液滴的运动,使下滑临界半径减小.     

An experimental study on the coalescence process of binary droplets in oil under ultrasonic standing waves

The coalescence process of binary droplets in oil under ultrasonic standing waves was investigated with high-speed photography. Three motion models of binary droplets in coalescence process were illustrated: (1) slight translational oscillation; (2) sinusoidal translational oscillation; (3) migration along with acoustic streaming. To reveal the droplets coalescence mechanisms, the influence of main factors (such as acoustic intensity, droplet size, viscosity and interfacial tension, etc) on the motion and coalescence of binary droplets was studied under ultrasonic standing waves. Results indicate that the shortest coalescence time is achieved when binary droplets show sinusoidal translational oscillation. The corresponding acoustic intensity in this case is the optimum acoustic intensity. Under the optimum acoustic intensity, drop size decrease will bring about coalescence time decrease by enhancing the binary droplets oscillation. Moreover, there is an optimum interfacial tension to achieve the shortest coalescence time.     

Development of a Three-parameter Volume-based Spray Drop Size Distribution through the Application of the Maximum Entropy Formalism

This work is an extension of a previous investigation on the determination of mathematical volume-spray drop size distributions by the application of the maximum entropy formalism. A two-parameter drop size distribution was derived and was found to give reasonable fits with experimental distributions obtained under different experimental conditions. However, as it is discussed, this two-parameter distribution shows critical limitations and cannot be applied in any situations of interest as far as drop size distributions in liquid sprays are concerned. To overcome this problem, a third parameter, equivalent to a drop diameter, is introduced into the procedure. This correction leads to a three-parameter drop size distribution with independent mean, width and symmetry. This function is a generalized gamma distribution and it can cover more practical situations than the previous two-parameter distribution. Furthermore, it is found that, contrary to the two-parameter distribution, the new volume-based drop size distribution shows a corresponding number-based drop size distribution with a physical behavior as the drop diameter decreases. This last result shows the importance of using three parameters to describe spray drop size distributions and that one of these parameters must represent the population of small drops.     

Influence of frequency sweep on sonochemiluminescence and sonoluminescence

Bubbles generated by acoustic cavitation may be efficient in light production by direct emission (sonoluminescence) or indirect emission (sonochemiluminescence) depending on operating parameters such as acoustic pressure and surface tension. These conditions are quite difficult to reach at very high frequencies, even by concentrating the acoustic power at a given location via focusing the acoustic field thanks to the transducer shape (High Intensity Focused Ultrasound). The current work aims at probing the cavitation bubble behaviour under short frequency sweeps by monitoring sonochemiluminescence and sonoluminescence activities. When the frequency was swept in reverse (negative sweep), an enhancement in the SCL, relative to the SCL observed under a single frequency irradiation, was observed. Conversely, a positive frequency sweep resulted in the quenching of SCL intensity. The degree of SCL enhancement and quenching was also dependent on the rate at which the frequency was being swept and on the change in the size of cavitation bubbles. The size of cavitation bubbles varied with varying starting sweep frequency (3.4, 3.6 and 4.2 MHz), affecting both SCL and sonoluminescence (SL) emissions. The addition of a surfactant (sodium dodecyl sulphate) affected the observed results, possibly due to its influence on coalescence between cavitation bubbles. The results suggest that the enhancement and quenching are related to the response of bubbles generated by the starting frequency to the direction of the frequency sweep and the influence of the sweep rate on growth and coalescence of bubbles, which affected the population of the active bubbles.     

On the coalescence of sessile drops with miscible liquids

Sessile drops sitting on highly wettable solid substrates fuse in qualitatively different ways after contact, depending on the surface tension gradients between the mixing droplets. In early time evolution the drop coalescence can be fast or delayed (intermittent). In long time evolution a secondary drop formation can occur. We study numerically droplet dynamics during coalescence in two and three spatial dimensions, within a phase field approach. We discuss criteria to distinguish different coalescence regimes. A comparison with recent experiments will be done.     

Droplet Size Distribution and Sphericity Measurements of Low‐Density Sprays Through Image Analysis

An image analysis technique has been developed in order to determine the drop size distributions of sprays produced by low‐velocity plain cylindrical jets. The particle sizing method is based on incoherent backlight images. Each drop is analyzed individually in the image. The two‐dimensional image resulting from the projection of the three‐dimensional object shape (the drop) on a screen (the video sensor surface) is modeled. The model, based on the point spread function formulation, has been developed to derive a relation between contrast and relative width of individual drops. This relation is used to extend the domain of validity of drop size in terms of size range, out of focus and image resolution. The shape parameter is determined for each drop image through morphological analysis. Spherical and non‐spherical droplets are then sorted on the basis of this parameter. Non‐spherical drops are regarded as non‐fully atomized liquid bulks or coalesced drops. Finally, the droplet size distribution of true spherical droplets is established for a low‐velocity plain cylindrical liquid jet.     

Experimental and theoretical study of crude oil pretreatment using low-frequency ultrasonic waves

In this work, an ultrasound experimental setup was designed to investigate the feasibility of using low-frequency ultrasonic waves as a substitute to reduce the consumption of chemical demulsifiers in the pretreatment of crude oil. The experiments were planned to study the effects of irradiation time, ultrasonic field intensity and initial water content on the efficiency of separation. The results of experiments showed that by selecting a proper irradiation time and field intensity, it is possible to decrease the usage of demulsifiers by 50%. Moreover, a population balance model was proposed to explicate the experimental data. A hybrid coalescence model was developed to determine the frequency of aggregation. The parameters of the model were estimated by linear regression. The parameter estimation was performed using a parallel execution of the particle swarm optimization algorithm. The results of the model showed a decent agreement with the experimental data.     

水平均质表面上液滴聚合过程的可视化实验研究

对水平均匀表面上液滴的聚合过程及特性进行了可视化实验研究,获得了液滴半径和液滴物性等参数对液滴聚合过程中液滴液桥半径和接触角变化特性的影响规律。实验结果表明:液滴聚合中液桥半径和接触角都呈衰减振荡变化; 聚合前液滴半径越小,液桥半径振荡频率越大,振幅越小,振荡时间越短;液滴的粘度越大,液桥半径的振荡频率越小, 振幅越小,振荡时间越短;液滴聚合前的接触角明显大于聚合液滴静止后的接触角,其差值与固体界面状况和气、固、液物性相关。     

超声吸收体物理参数对红外热成像测量高强度聚焦超声声场的影响

超声吸收体的物理参数对利用水听器和红外热成像技术的高强度聚焦超声(High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound,HIFU)声场测量结果具有重要影响。为了探索超声吸收体的物理参数(密度、声速、衰减系数、热扩散系数、定压比热容)对测量结果的影响规律,本文根据层状模型计算出相同声源功率输出时不同物理参数对应的超声吸收体内部声场和热场,利用有限差分法计算出超声吸收体表面在辐照过程中的温度变化;利用基于水听器和红外热成像技术的聚焦声场测量方法测量出焦域内不同位置上声场特征值(轴线声强和-6 dB声束宽度),与通过理论计算得到的声源在纯水中声场特征值进行比较,分析了不同物理参数对测量结果的影响。超声吸收体的声、热学参数中除了声速外,其它物理参数的变化引起声场特征值的测量造成最大相对差异率小于15%。因为声波传播速度的改变会导致超声吸收体内部热场分布变化,使测量结果与理论计算值有较大偏差,其中-6 dB声束宽度和轴线声强最大相对差异率为95.37%和69.97%。因此在选择超声吸收体的声、热学参数时应重点关注声波在吸收体内声速的影响。超声吸收体的声学参数与水的声学参数相近时,可以在焦域内获得较好的测量结果。      

Propagation of drop coalescence in a two-dimensional emulsion: a route towards phase inversion

The phase inversion that undergoes an emulsion while being sheared is a sudden phenomenon that is still puzzling. In this Letter, we report an experimental investigation on propagative coalescence by using a microfluidic device where a calibrated two-dimensional emulsion is created and destabilized. The velocity of propagation and the probability of the coalescence are reported as a function of the size and the spatial distribution of the drops, respectively. We then discuss the efficiency of this novel scenario of phase inversion and suggest that inversion can be favored by the existence of a drop size distribution.     

Pulsed ultrasound assisted dehydration of waste oil

A method to aid the separation of the oil phase from waste oil emulsion of refineries had been developed by using a pulsed ultrasonic irradiation technology. Compared with conventional continuous ultrasonic irradiation, it is found that pulsed ultrasonic irradiation is much better to make water drop coalescence and hence dehydration of waste oil. The effects of ultrasonic irradiation parameters on waste oil dehydration are further discussed. The orthogonal experiment is also designed to investigate the degrees of influence of ultrasonic parameters and the optimal technological conditions. Under the optimal experimental conditions, the water content of waste oil is decreased from 65% to 8%, which thereby satisfies the requirements of refineries on the water content of waste oil after treatment (<10%).     

Nucleation and growth on a superhydrophobic grooved surface

The growth dynamics of water drops condensed on a superhydrophobic geometrically patterned surface were studied. Drop size evolution at early and intermediate times is self-similar. Drop growth laws do not differ for a flat surface because of a reduction of both drop and substrate dimensionality. A striking observation is the instantaneous drying of the top surface of grooves at a point in time due to coalescence of the drops with a completely filled channel. At late times, only a few large drops grow connected to the channels, in a mixed Wenzel-penetration regime.     

Multi-levels inverse identification of physical parameters of porous materials

The identification of the physical parameters of porous materials presents an important field of research, in which many identification methods are developed. One of those methods is presented in this paper. In fact, a multi-levels inverse identification method is developed in order to estimate these physical parameters. The proposed method is based on the minimization of the difference between a reference acoustic absorption coefficient of a porous material and the computed values. The minimization is done according three levels, in each level an acoustic model of porous material is used to evaluate one or two parameters. Finally, the five physical parameters of the porous materials are deduced. The proposed method is applied to Polyurethane foam material. The obtained results are satisfying with small values of errors and with estimated acoustic absorption coefficient reaching the reference one.     

High-speed visualization of interface phenomena: single and double drop impacts onto a deep liquid layer

Abstract  

Single and double drop impacts onto a deep pool were observed with a high-speed camera. The early stage of drop impact was investigated to detect the evolution of the interface between the fluid of the impacting drop and of the target pool. A new flow regime for the single drop impact was detected, due to a superposition of partial coalescence and crater formation. The closure of the crown above the crater was observed for some impact parameters. The submerged flow geometry generated by the simultaneous impact of two identical drops was also reported.     

纳米结构表面上部分润湿液滴合并诱导弹跳的理论研究

部分润湿液滴是适宜纳米结构表面上滴状冷凝传热的主要载体,研究纳米结构参数与部分润湿液滴合并弹跳之间的关系有重要意义,本文依据冷凝液滴生长过程中能量增加最小的原理来判断其是否为部分润湿状态,并根据液滴合并前后的体积和界面自由能守恒,确定了合并液滴的初始形状,进而对合并液滴变形过程的动力学方程进行了求解,结果表明:部分润湿冷凝液滴仅在纳米柱具有一定高度、直径间距比较大的表面上形成,而当纳米柱高度过低、直径间距比小于0.1时则形成完全润湿的冷凝液滴;液滴合并后能否弹跳与纳米结构参数紧密相关,仅在纳米柱较高、直径间距比适宜的表面上,部分润湿液滴合并后才能诱发弹跳;液滴尺度及待合并液滴间的尺度比对合并弹跳也有重要影响;多个部分润湿液滴合并后由于具有更多的过剩界面自由能而比两个液滴合并更容易诱发弹跳,本模型对纳米结构表面上冷凝液滴是否合并诱发弹跳的计算结果与绝大部分实测结果相一致,准确率达到95%。