Investigations of the effects of two typical jet crushing methods on the atomization and dust reduction performance of nozzles

Single-fuid nozzles and dual-fuid nozzles are the two typical jet crushing methods used in spray dust reduction. To distinguish the atomization mechanism of single-fuid and dual-fuid nozzles and improve dust control efciency at the coal mining faces, the atomization characteristics and dust reduction performance of the two nozzles were quantitatively compared. Results of experiments show that, as water supply pressure increased, the atomization angle of the swirl pressure nozzle reaches a maximum of 62° at 6 MPa and then decreases, but its droplet size shows an opposite trend with a minimum of 41.7 μm. The water supply pressure helps to improve the droplet size and the atomization angle of the internal mixing air–liquid nozzle, while the air supply pressure has a suppressive efect for them. When the water supply pressure is 0.2 MPa and the air supply pressure reaches 0.4 MPa, the nozzle obtains the smallest droplet size which is 10% smaller than the swirl pressure nozzle. Combined with the dust reduction experimental results, when the water consumption at the working surface is not limited, using the swirl pressure nozzle will achieve a better dust reduction efect. However, the internal mixing air–liquid nozzle can achieve better and more economical dust reduction performance in working environments where water consumption is limited.

Experimental Study on Spray Cooling Performance of Pressure Atomizing Nozzle

Aiming at the problem of air-cooled condenser output limit, a spray humidification system was presented to reduce the inlet air temperature. The pressure atomizing nozzle TF8 was chosen for inlet air spray cooling, and the spray cooling experiment with different layouts of nozzles were conducted. Through heat and mass transfer analysis, the cooling effect fitting correlation was acquired with evaporative cooling being the major cooling mechanism. The experimental results under different nozzle layouts show that when the product of dry ball and wet ball temperature difference and spray rate is smaller than 75,℃·m 3 /h, opening the TF8 nozzles in row 1 and row 2 (row distance is 500, mm) has better cooling effect than those in row 1 and row 3 (row distance is 1 000 mm), while when the product is larger than 75,℃·m 3 /h, opening the TF8 nozzles in row 1 and row 3 is superior in cooling effect to those in row 1 and row 2 .

Design and Atomization Characteristic of Laval-style Annular Slot Nozzle

Gas mass flux rate,metal mass flux rate and outlet gas velocity are three atomization scale parameters which greatly affect the atomization efficiency. A Laval-style annual slot supersonic nozzle is designed by optimizing the geometric parameters of delivery tube outlet and gas outlet to obtain applicable atomization scale parameters. A computational fluid flow model is adopted to investigate the effect of atomization gas pressure ( P0 ) on the gas flow field in gas atomization progress. The numerical results show that the outlet gas velocity of the nozzle is not affected by P0 and the maximum gas velocity reaches 452 m / s. The alternation of aspiration pressure ( ΔP) is caused by the variations of stagnation pressure and location of Mach shock disk, and hardly by the location of stagnation point. The aspiration pressure is found to decrease as P0 increases when P0 < 1. 3 MPa. However,at a higher atomization gas pressure increasing P0 causes an opposite: the aspiration pressure atomization increases with the gas pressure,and keeps a plateau when P0 > 2. 0 MPa. The minimum aspiration pressure ΔP = - 70 kPa is obtained at P0 = 1. 3 MPa. The results indicate that the designed Laval- style annual slot nozzle has well atomization characteristic at lower atomization pressure.

Numerical simulation of the dimensional transformation of atomization in a supersonic aerodynamic atomization dust-removing nozzle based on transonic speed compressible flow

To simulate the transonic atomization jet process in Laval nozzles,to test the law of droplet atomization and distribution,to find a method of supersonic atomization for dust-removing nozzles,and to improve nozzle efficiency,the finite element method has been used in this study based on the COMSOL computational fluid dynamics module.The study results showed that the process cannot be realized alone under the two-dimensional axisymmetric,three-dimensional and three-dimensional symmetric models,but it can be calculated with the transformation dimension method,which uses the parameter equations generated from the two-dimensional axisymmetric flow field data of the three-dimensional model.The visualization of this complex process,which is difficult to measure and analyze experimentally,was realized in this study.The physical process,macro phenomena and particle distribution of supersonic atomization are analyzed in combination with this simulation.The rationality of the simulation was verified by experiments.A new method for the study of the atomization process and the exploration of its mechanism in a compressible transonic speed flow field based on the Laval nozzle has been provided,and a numerical platform for the study of supersonic atomization dust removal has been established.

Process modeling gas atomization of close-coupled ring-hole nozzle for 316L stainless steel powder production

The paper aims at modeling and simulating the atomization process of the close-coupled ring-hole nozzle in vacuum induction gas atomization(VIGA)for metallic powder production.First of all,the primary atomization of the ring-hole nozzle is simulated by the volume of fluid(VOF)coupled large eddy simulation(LES)model.To simulate the secondary atomization process,we use the method of selecting the droplet sub-model and the VOF model.The results show that the ring-hole nozzle forms a gas recirculation zone at the bottom of the delivery tube,which is the main reason for the formation of an annular liquid film during the primary atomization.In addition,the primary atomization process of the ring-hole nozzle consists of three stages:the formation of the serrated liquid film tip,the appearance and shedding of the ligaments,and the fragmentation of ligaments.At the same time,the primary atomization mainly forms spherical droplets and long droplets,but only the long droplets can be reserved and proceed to the secondary atomization.Moreover,increasing the number of ring holes from 18 to 30,the mass median diameter(MMD,d_(50))of the primary atomized droplets decreases first and then increases,which is mainly due to the change of the thickness of the melt film.Moreover,the secondary atomization of the ring-hole nozzles is mainly in bag breakup mode and multimode breakup model,and bag breakup will result in the formation of hollow powder,which can be avoided by increasing the gas velocity.

Experimental study on atomization characteristics and dust-reduction performance of four common types of pressure nozzles in underground coal mines

Pressure nozzle is commonly used in the dust-reduction techniques by spraying of underground coal mines.Based on the internal structure,the pressure nozzle can be divided into the following types:spiral channel nozzle,tangential flow-guided nozzle and X-swirl nozzle.In order to provide better guidance on the selection of nozzles for the coal mine dust-reduction systems by spraying,we designed comparing experiments to study the atomization characteristics and dust-reduction performance of four commonly used nozzles in the coal mine underground with different internal structures.From the experimental results on the atomization characteristics,both the tangential flow-guided nozzle and the X-swirl nozzle have high flow coefficients.The atomization angle is the largest in the spiral non-porous nozzle,and smallest in both the X-swirl nozzle and the spiral porous nozzle.The spraying range and the droplet velocity are inversely proportional to the atomization angle.When the water pressure is low,the atomization performance of the spiral non-porous nozzle is the best among the four types of nozzles.The atomization performance of the X-swirl nozzle is superior to other types when the water pressure is high.Under the high water pressure,the particle size of the atomized droplets is smallest in the X-swirl nozzle.Through the experiments on the dust-reduction performance of the four types of nozzles and the comprehensive analysis,the X-swirl nozzle is recommended for the coal mine application site with low water pressure in the dust-reduction system,while at the sites with high water pressure,the spiral non-porous nozzle is recommended,which has the lowest water consumption and obvious economic advantages.

Resonant behaviors of ultra-sonic gas atomization nozzle with zero mass-flux jet actuator

The resonant behaviors of an ultra-sonic gas atomization nozzle with a zero mass-flux jet actuator were numerically investigated with FLUENT software by using a double precision unsteady two-dimensional pressure-based solver. The Spalart-Allmaras turbulence model was adopted in the simulations. Numerical results indicated that the oscillation properties of the gas efflux were effectively improved. Several resonatory frequencies corresponding to different vibration modes of gas were distinguished in the nozzle. With the changing of nozzle geometric parameters, different characters among those modes were elucidated by analyzing the propagations of pressure waves.

Comparative study on the flow fields of three atomization nozzles

In this paper, the flow fields of three types of nozzles （ Hartmann, Laval and Laminar nozzles ） under the same conditions are simulated, and the corresponding to pressure, temperature, velocity and turbulence intensity are obtained. The results suggest that two crushing presents in the atomization process using Hartmann nozzle, but only one crushing presents in the atomization process using the other nozzles, through the comparative research on the flow field features of three types of nozzle. Furthermore, the shockwave plays a more important role in crushing of liquid metal than velocity.

A Laboratory Investigation into the Fuel Atomization Process in a Diesel Engine for Different Configurations of the Injector Nozzles and Flow Conditions

This paper reports a laboratory investigation of the fuel injection process in a diesel engine.The atomization process of the considered fuel(a hydrocarbon liquid)and the ensuing mixing with air is studied experimentally under high-pressure conditions.Different types of injector nozzles are examined,including(two)new configurations,which are compared in terms of performances to a standard injector manufactured by the Bosch company.For the two alternate configurations,the intake edges of one atomizing hole(hole No.1)are located in the sack volume while for the other(hole No.2)they are located on the locking cone of the needle valve.The injection process,the fuel atomization fineness and fuel supply speed characteristics are studied as functions of high-pressure fuel pump camshaft speed and rotation angle.The results obtained show that a decrease in the high-pressure fuel pump camshaft speed can produce fuel redistribution depending on the injector operation.In general,however,the hole No.1 can ensure fuel flow with higher speed with respect to the hole No.2 for all the operation modes of the injector.Based on such an analysis,we conclude that the use of certain injectors can enable a fine tuning of the propagation process of fuel sprays into various areas of the diesel engine combustion chamber.

The effect of nozzle layout on droplet ejection of a piezo-electrically actuated micro-atomizer

We study here effects of nozzle layout on the droplet ejection of a micro atomizer, which was fabricated with the arrayed nozzles by the MEMS technology and actuated by a piezoelectric disc. A theoretical model was first built for this piezoelectric-liquid-structure coupling system to characterize the acoustic wave propagation in the liquid chamber, which determined the droplet formation out of nozzles. The modal analysis was carried out numerically to predict resonant frequencies and simulate the corresponding pressure wave field. By comparing the amplitude contours of pressure wave on the liquid-solid interface at nozzle inlets with the designed nozzle layout, behaviors of the device under different vibration modes can be predicted. Experimentally, an impedance analyzer was used to measure the resonant frequencies of the system. Three types of atomizers with different nozzle layouts were fabricated for measuring the effect of nozzle distribution on the ejection performance. The visualization experiment of droplet generation was carried out and volume flow rates of these devices were measured. The good agreement between the experiment and the prediction proved that only the increase of nozzles may not enhance the droplet generation and a design of nozzle distribution from a view-point of frequency is necessary for a resonant related atomizer.

Effects of atomization parameters of dust removal nozzles on the de-dusting results for different dust sources

In order to obtain appropriate spray pressure and enhance the spraying and dust removal efficiency, various factors including the dust characteristics, nozzle spraying angle, effective spraying range, water consumption and droplet size are taken into account. The dust characteristics from different mines and atomization parameters of different pressure nozzles were measured. It was found that the internal pressure of coal cutters and roadheaders should be kept at 2 MPa, which could ensure large droplet size, large spraying angle and low water consumption and hence realizing a large-area covering and capture for large particle dusts. However, the external spray pressure should be kept at 4 MPa for smaller droplet size and longer effective spraying range, leading to effective dust removal in the operator zone. The spray pressure of support moving, drawing opening, and stage loader on a fully mechanized caving face and stage loader on a fully mechanized driving face should be kept at 8 MPa, under which the nozzles have long effective spraying range, high water flow and small droplet size for the rapid capture of instantaneous, high-concentration and small size dust groups. From the applications on the caving and driving faces in the coal mines, it is indicated that the optimization of spray pressure in different spraying positions could effectively enhance dust removal efficiency. Selecting appropriate nozzles according to the dust characteristics at different positions is also favorable for dust removal efficiency. With the selected nozzles under optimal pressures, the removal rates of both total dust and respirable dust could reach over70%, showing a significant de-dusting effect.

An experimental study on the atomization characteristics of the nozzle for the after-pot cooling of galvanized steel sheets

Air-atomized fog cooling is particularly suitable for the after-pot cooling of galvanized steel strips.With air and water serving as working media,an experimental study was conducted on the atomization characteristics of a newly-developed cross-flow type of fog nozzles.The water flux distribution,spray angle and pressure of water and air were measured.The results show that the water droplet size was small and insensitive to the water flow rate.The spray angle was small and the water flow rate slightly affected the air pressure in the chamber.An empirical correlation between the pressure in the chamber and the gas flow rate was obtained for the purpose of equipment design.

Influence of Self-excited Vibrating Cavity Structure on Droplet Diameter Characteristics of Twin-fluid Nozzle

It is a great challenge to find effective atomizing technology for reducing industrial pollution; the twin-fluid atomizing nozzle has drawn great attention in this field recently. Current studies on twin-fluid nozzles mainly focus on droplet breakup and single droplet characteristics. Research relating to the influences of structural parameters on the droplet diameter characteristics in the flow field is scarcely available. In this paper, the influence of a self-excited vibrating cavity structure on droplet diameter characteristics was investigated. Twin-fluid atomizing tests were performed by a self-built open atomizing test bench, which was based on a phase Doppler particle analyzer(PDPA). The atomizing flow field of the twin-fluid nozzle with a self-excited vibrating cavity and its absence were tested and analyzed. Then the atomizing flow field of the twin-fluid nozzle with different self-excited vibrating cavity structures was investigated.The experimental results show that the structural parameters of the self-excited vibrating cavity had a great effect on the breakup of large droplets. The Sauter mean diameter(SMD) increased with the increase of orifice diameter or orifice depth. Moreover, a smaller orifice diameter or orifice depth was beneficial to enhancing the turbulence around the outlet of nozzle and decreasing the SMD. The atomizing performance was better when the orifice diameter was2.0 mm or the orifice depth was 1.5 mm. Furthermore, the SMD increased first and then decreased with the increase of the distance between the nozzle outlet and self-excited vibrating cavity, and the SMD of more than half the atomizing flow field was under 35 μm when the distance was 5.0 mm. In addition, with the increase of axial and radial distance from the nozzle outlet, the SMD and arithmetic mean diameter(AMD) tend to increase. The research results provide some design parameters for the twin-fluid nozzle, and the experimental results could serve as a beneficial supplement to the twin-fluid nozzle study.

Injector Nozzle Flow Model and Its Effects on the Calculations of High Pressure Sprays

This paper discusses the flowing process inside a nozzle, especially the formation mechanism of cavitations within the nozzle and puts forward a nozzle flow model, which takes account of the injection conditions and nozzle geometry. By the model being implemented to the KIVA codes, the spray characteristics (e. g., spray penetration and cone angle) of diesel and dimethyl ether (DME) are simulated. The comparisons between the computational and experimental results are performed, which show that the liquid spray characteristics could be more truly demonstrated by considering the existence of the cavitations. Key words nozzle model - spray characteristics - cavitation - atomization CLC number O 35 - TK 402 Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (50376018) and the National 973 Basic Research Program of China (2001CB209207)Biography: WEI Ming-rui (1967-), male, Associate professor, Ph. D, research direction: computational combustion, computational fluid dynamics.

Properties of acoustic resonance in double-actuator ultra-sonic gas nozzle:numerical study

The ultra-sonic gas atomization （USGA） nozzle is an important apparatus in the metal liquid air-blast atomization process. It can generate oscillating supersonic gas effiux, which is proved to be effective to enforce the atomization and produce narrow-band particle distributions. A double-actuator ultra-sonic gas nozzle is proposed in the present paper by joining up two active signals at the ends of the resonance tubes. Numerical sim- ulations axe adopted to study the effects of the flow development on the acoustic resonant properties inside the Haxtmann resonance cavity with/without actuators. Comparisons show that the strength and the onset process of oscillation are enhanced remarkably with the actuators. The multiple oscillating amplitude peaks are found on the response curves, and two kinds of typical behaviors, i.e., the Hartmann mode and the global mode, are discussed for the corresponding frequencies. The results for two driving actuators are also investigated. When the amplitudes, the frequencies, or the phase difference of the input signals of the actuators are changed, the oscillating amplitudes of gas effiux can be altered effectively.

带电射流非稳态破碎的可视化试验

采用高速数码相机对毛细管带电射流破碎形态的演化过程进行了可视化研究,探讨了大流量下带电射流破碎的基本形态及射流不稳定破碎模式的转变,分析了物性参数、电压及液体流量对带电射流破碎模式的影响.采用半球形毛细管喷嘴研究锥射流模式向简单射流模式演化的过程,采用普通毛细管喷嘴对比研究去离子水和乙醇的静电简单射流雾化模式.结果表明:在特定电压下,随着流量增加,锥射流模式可以逐渐过渡为简单射流模式;当初始状态为射流时,随着电压增加,大流量下的去离子水静电雾化射流破碎模式主要为曲张不稳定破碎和鞭动不稳定破碎;表面张力较小的无水乙醇更容易产生破碎,还出现了鞭动辅助分叉模式和枝状破碎模式.

管道形状对超音速雾化降尘特性的影响

为治理煤矿行业中井下粉尘的污染问题,基于可压缩气流管内超音速流动理论,提出1种超音速雾化降尘技术;通过数值模拟的方法来研究不同结构、气动总压力对拉瓦尔喷管内超音速流动过程的影响,并通过激波、音速环以及轴向最大马赫数、轴线最大平均速度等现象来分析不同气动总压力下不同拉瓦尔喷管结构参数的超音速流动规律;搭建雾化特性实验平台,对最佳的喷管形状在不同的压力下进行降尘效率的计算,对比分析不同时刻和不同压力下降尘效率的变化规律。研究结果表明:凹形喷管在不同压力下的降尘稳定性最强,是制作雾化降尘喷头的最好选择。凹形喷管在不同压力下3种时刻的瞬时降尘效率都随着时间增加而逐渐升高,雾化降尘效果良好,当喷雾时间为3 min且气动压力为0.5 MPa时,凹形喷管的降尘效率为85.13%,降尘效率最高,降尘效果最好。研究结果可为治理煤矿井下采煤过程中的粉尘问题提供理论支持和治理手段。

导流管参数对真空紧耦合气雾化法制备Fe-Cr合金粉末的影响

采用真空紧耦合气雾化法制备Fe–Cr合金粉末,研究了导流管直径与导流管伸出长度对Fe–Cr合金粉末粒度分布、收得率、中位粒径(D_(50))的影响。结果表明,在其他工艺参数不变的情况下,当导流管直径从4.5 mm增大到6.0 mm时,Fe–Cr合金粉末累积粒度分布曲线右移,中位粒径增大,细粉收得率减小,粉末流动性减小,松装密度减小;当导流管伸出长度由2.0 mm增加到2.5 mm时,Fe–Cr合金粉末累积粒度分布曲线左移,中位粒径减小,细粉收得率增加,粉末流动性增加,松装密度升高。综上所述,雾化压力3.8 MPa,过热度250℃,导流管直径4.5 mm,导流管伸出长度2.5 mm,制备得到的Fe–Cr合金粉末综合性能最优。

不同结构参数对喷头雾化特性的影响规律

针对目前雾化喷嘴存在的雾化压力高、雾化范围小等问题,设计了一种雾化喷头,并分析了该喷头的雾化特性.利用激光粒度测试仪探究压力为0.15~0.30 MPa、出口直径为0.3~0.9 mm等条件下对喷头雾化锥角、速度场和液滴粒径的影响,获取了不同试验条件下流场流动特性的变化规律:在低压力下,雾化锥角受喷头出口直径的影响较大,出口收缩角越大则雾化特性越优良;出口直径为0.9 mm的喷头,喷腔长孔比为1、出口收缩角为75°时更能实现大范围的作业;随着喷雾压力增大,水滴速度最大值也显著增大,但压力对雾化流场整体速度分布趋势的影响不大.水滴直径也随着喷头出口直径增大而增大,且喷头出口直径对水滴直径影响显著,但水滴直径相同时,出口直径越大,水滴速度越小.该结果为雾化喷头在中低压范围内的应用提供了理论参考.

紧耦合气雾化拉瓦尔喷盘结构优化

采用计算流体动力学法模拟了紧耦合气雾化拉瓦尔喷盘气流喷射角(40°,50°,60°,70°,80°)、气流喷射宽度(15,20,25,30,35 mm)、导流管伸出长度(0.5,4.5,8.5 mm)对雾化室流场气流速度分布及其y轴上气流交汇点气流速度和导液管出口处静压的影响,得到了喷盘优化结构参数;采用优化结构喷盘制备18Ni300模具钢紧耦合气雾化粉末,测定了其性能。结果表明:随着气流喷射角增加,流场最大气流速度减小,气流交汇处气流速度和导液管出口处静压均增大;随着导流管伸出长度增加,流场最大气流速度先减小后增加,导液管出口处静压减小,气流交汇点气流速度未发生显著变化;随着气流喷射宽度增加,流场最大气流速度未产生显著变化,气流交汇点气流速度和导液管出口处静压均减小;根据模拟结果得到喷盘优化结构参数为气流喷射角60°、气流喷射宽度30 mm、导流管伸出长度4.5 mm,此条件下制得的18Ni300模具钢紧耦合气雾化粉末形状规则,尺寸小且均匀,细粉收得率最大,粉末流速和松装密度较大,综合性能最佳。