Measuring derived acoustic power of an ultrasound surgical device in the linear and nonlinear operating modes

Objective and motivationThe method for measuring derived acoustic power of an ultrasound point source in the form of a sonotrode tip has been considered in the free acoustic field, according to the IEC 61847 standard. The main objective of this work is measuring averaged pressure magnitude spatial distribution of an sonotrode tip in the free acoustic field conditions at different electrical excitation levels and calculation of the derived acoustic power at excitation frequency (f₀ ≈ 25 kHz). Finding the derived acoustic power of an ultrasonic surgical device in the strong cavitation regime of working, even in the considered laboratory conditions (anechoic pool), will enable better understanding of the biological effects on the tissue produced during operation with the considered device.Experimental methodThe pressure magnitude spatial distribution is measured using B&;K 8103 hydrophone connected with a B&;K 2626 conditioning amplifier, digital storage oscilloscope LeCroy Waverunner 474, where pressure waveforms in the field points are recorded. Using MATLAB with DSP processing toolbox, averaged power spectrum density of recorded pressure signals in different field positions is calculated. The measured pressure magnitude spatial distributions are fitted with the appropriate theoretical models.Theoretical approachesIn the linear operating mode, using the acoustic reciprocity principle, the sonotrode tip is theoretically described as radially oscillating sphere (ROS) and transversely oscillating sphere (TOS) in the vicinity of pressure release boundary. The measured pressure magnitude spatial distribution is fitted with theoretical curves, describing the pressure field of the considered theoretical models. The velocity and displacement magnitudes with derived acoustic power of equivalent theoretical sources are found, and the electroacoustic efficiency factor is calculated. When the transmitter is excited at higher electrical power levels, the displacement magnitude of sonotrode tip is increased, and nonlinear behaviour in loading medium appears, with strong cavitation activity produced hydrodynamically. The presence of harmonics, subharmonics and ultraharmonics as a consequence of stable cavitation is evident in the averaged power spectral density. The cavitation noise with continuous frequency components is present as a consequence of transient cavitation. The averaged pressure magnitude at the frequency components of interest (discrete and continous) in the field points is found by calculating average power spectral density of the recorded pressure waveform signal using the welch method. The frequency band of interest where average power spectral density is calculated is in the range from 15 Hz up to 120 kHz due to measurement system restrictions. The novelty in the approach is the application of the acoustic reciprocity principle on the nonlinear system (sonotrode tip and bubble cloud) to find neccessary acoustic power of the equivalent acoustic source to produce the measured pressure magnitude in the field points at the frequency components of interest.ResultsIn the nonlinear operating mode, the ROS model for the considered sonotrode tip is chosen due to the better agreement between measurement results and theoretical considerations. At higher excitation levels, it is shown that the averaged pressure magnitude spatial distribution of discrete frequency components, produced due to stable cavitation, can be fitted in the far field with the inverse distance law. The reduced electroacoustic efficiency factor, calculated at excitation frequency component as ratio of derived acoustic power with applied electrical power, is reduced from 40% in the linear to 3% in the strong nonlinear operating mode. The derived acoustic power at other frequency components (subharmonic, harmonic and ultraharmonic) is negligible in comparison with the derived acoustic power at excitation frequency.Discussion and conclusionsThe sonotrode tip and loading medium are shown in the strong cavitation regime as the coupled nonlinear dynamical system radiating acoustic power at frequency components appearing in the spectrum. The bubble cloud in the strong nonlinear operating mode decreases the derived acoustic power significantly at the excitation frequency.     

流体动力式超声与槽式超声提取黄芩的比较

目的:比较两种超声发生器对化学反应的促进作用。方法:首先用碘释放测量法进行实验,分别用气哨式流体动力式超声发生器和槽式超声清洗仪处理碘化钾溶液,采用分光光度法测定碘化钾溶液的吸光度。随后分别用流体动力式超声与槽式超声提取黄芩,采用高效液相色谱法测定黄芩苷含量。结果:经流体动力式超声发生器和槽式超声清洗仪处理的碘化钾溶液的吸光度分别为0.990和0.498。以水为溶剂用流体动力式超声提取黄芩,黄芩苷含量显著高于槽式超声。结论:流体动力式发生器(每升能耗0.0156kwh)的空化效应高于槽式超声清洗仪(每升能耗0.0148kwh)。     

Transient heating effects in high pressure Diesel injector nozzles

The tendency of today’s fuel injection systems to reach injection pressures up to 3000 bar in order to meet forthcoming emission regulations may significantly increase liquid temperatures due to friction heating; this paper identifies numerically the importance of fuel pressurization, phase-change due to cavitation, wall heat transfer and needle valve motion on the fluid heating induced in high pressure Diesel fuel injectors. These parameters affect the nozzle discharge coefficient (C_d), fuel exit temperature, cavitation volume fraction and temperature distribution within the nozzle. Variable fuel properties, being a function of the local pressure and temperature are found necessary in order to simulate accurately the effects of depressurization and heating induced by friction forces. Comparison of CFD predictions against a 0-D thermodynamic model, indicates that although the mean exit temperature increase relative to the initial fuel temperature is proportional to (1 − C_d²) at fixed needle positions, it can significantly deviate from this value when the motion of the needle valve, controlling the opening and closing of the injection process, is taken into consideration. Increasing the inlet pressure from 2000 bar, which is the pressure utilized in today’s fuel systems to 3000 bar, results to significantly increased fluid temperatures above the boiling point of the Diesel fuel components and therefore regions of potential heterogeneous fuel boiling are identified.     

An improvement to the Kunz preconditioner and numerical investigation of hydrofoil interactions in tandem

ABSTRACT

Numerical simulations of the tandem-system flow are widely conducted because of the complex interactions of the configuration. The cavitation phenomenon is an important factor that affects the hydrofoil in tandem. In this paper, we developed a new parameter for the Kunz preconditioner based on the local cavitation volume fraction. To assess this parameter, a type of Fourier footprint analysis and numerical test of the hydrofoil are adopted. The preconditioning method is also conducted in hydrofoil turbulent cavitation flows with RANS turbulence models, to prove that this method has good stability and convergence. Based on this, a tandem Clark-Y hydrofoil configuration is investigated. The results show that the distance of components has a strong influence on the cavitation and lift coefficient of the tandem hydrofoils. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to provide guidance on the design of marine vehicles that have tandem configurations.     

Parametric Analysis for a Single Collapsing Bubble

This work presents a sensitivity analysis for cavitation processes, studying in detail the effect of various model parameters on the bubble collapse. A complete model (Hauke et al. Phys Rev E 75:1–14, 2007) is used to obtain how different parameters influence the collapse in SBSL experiments, providing some clues on how to enhance the bubble implosion in real systems. The initial bubble radius, the frequency and the amplitude of the pressure wave are the most important parameters determining under which conditions cavitation occurs. The range of bubble sizes inducing strong implosions for different frequencies is computed; the initial radius is the most important parameter characterized the intensity of the cavitation processes. However, other parameters like the gas and liquid conductivity or the liquid viscosity can have an important effect under certain conditions. It is shown that mass transfer processes play an important role in order to correctly predict the trends related with the effect of the liquid temperature, which translates into the bubble dynamics. Moreover, under some particular circumstances, evaporation can be encountered during the bubble collapse; this can be profitably exploited in order to feed reactants when the most extreme conditions inside the bubbles are reached. Thus, this paper aims at providing a global assessment of the effect of the different parameters on the entire cycle of a single cavitating spherical bubble immersed in an ultrasonic field. This work has been partially supported by Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnologia, under grant number CTM2004-06184-C02-02.     

On the pressure of cavitation bubbles

Shock wave emission upon the collapse of a cavitation bubble attached to a rigid wall is investigated using high-speed photography with 200 million frames/s and 5 ns exposure time. At a distance of 68 μm from the bubble wall, the shock pressure is 1.3 ± 0.3 GPa. The shock pressure decays proportionally to r^−1.5 with increasing distance from the bubble. An estimation of the peak pressure at the bubble wall reveals a pressure of about 8 GPa. A major part of the shock wave energy is dissipated within the first 100 μm from the bubble wall.     

水体中溶解氧对声致发光的影响

采用声源频率为1.1 MHz的超声波, 在温度为283～313 K的范围内引发水中的声致发光, 发现声致发光强度的对数lnI和水中的溶解(DO)的浓度之间呈线性关系。同时模拟了水中含有5种阴离子: Cl-, SO-₄, F-, NO-₃, HCO-₃时阴离子的存在对声致发光的影响, 发现上述5种阴离子对声致发光强度没有影响。     

镍铝介金属镀膜之抗坑蚀行为

采用3种原子百分比Ni52Al48,Ni60Al40及Ni70Al30成分的靶材以阴极电弧放电离子被覆技术制备不同组成的Ni＿Al薄膜于AISI1045中碳钢基材表面上,并观察镀膜微结构与成分随靶材成分的变化,评估应用Ni＿Al于抗坑蚀功能方面的可行性.研究结果显示:使用上述3种靶材所获致的镀膜组成依次为Ni62Al38,Ni63Al37及Ni69Al31,镀膜镍含量随靶材镍含量增加而增加.3种镀膜的相组成均以Ni3Al为主,从富镍Ni70Al30靶材所得的镀膜尚含有部分镍相.镀膜具有极强的附着性并反映在镀膜的抗坑蚀性上.在纯水中,所有的Ni＿Al镀膜试片均能提高中碳钢基材的抗坑蚀性,约达10倍.在3.5wt%盐水与3.5wt%盐酸中亦分别有两倍以上的效果.而在这3种测试环境中,3种镀膜试片的坑蚀损失差别均不明显,无法判断镀膜组成对抗坑蚀性的影响.从动电位极化曲线可以看出,镀膜试片均能大幅提高基材在盐酸与盐水溶液中的抗蚀性,然而因坑蚀破坏而形成的孔洞会由于孔蚀而导致腐蚀加剧,造成镀膜试片在腐蚀溶液中之抗坑蚀效果低于电化学量测时所预期的保护效果.     

铁铬合金空蚀过程的研究

研究了4种铁铬合金在氯化钠溶液体系中的空泡腐蚀行为.重点考察合金性能及空泡作用区的相对面积对合金空蚀损失量的影响.结果表明:合金空蚀损失量随空泡作用区与非空泡作用区表面面积比的增大而增加;合金的耐蚀性和机械性能同时影响其空蚀损失量.     

Integrated ultrasound-assisted liquid biphasic flotation for efficient extraction of astaxanthin from Haematococcus pluvialis

The purpose of this investigation is to evaluate the implementation of ultrasound-assisted liquid biphasic flotation (LBF) system for the recovery of natural astaxanthin from Haematococcus pluvialis microalgae. Various operating conditions of ultrasound-assisted LBF systems such as the position of ultrasound horn, mode of ultrasonication (pulse and continuous), amplitude of ultrasonication, air flowrate, duration of air flotation, and mass of H. pluvialis microalgae were evaluated. The effect of ultrasonication on the cellular morphology of microalgae was also assessed using microscopic analysis. Under the optimized operating conditions of UALBF, the maximum recovery yield, extraction efficiency, and partition coefficient of astaxanthin were 95.08 ± 3.02%, 99.74 ± 0.05%, and 185.09 ± 4.78, respectively. In addition, the successful scale-up operation of ultrasound-assisted LBF system verified the practicability of this integrated approach for an effective extraction of natural astaxanthin.