Bubble population phenomena in sonochemical reactor: I estimation of bubble size distribution and its number density with pulsed sonication - laser diffraction method.
To characterize the bubble populations (size and its number distribution) in a sonochemical reactor, a simple but powerful technique based on the Fraunhofer laser diffraction (LD) has been proposed. In this method, the acoustic wave disturbance to the laser probe in the sonochemical reaction field was eliminated by the temporal separation using pulsed sonication (pulsed LD). With this relatively simple strategy, the temporal development of the bubble size distribution could be evaluated by pulsed LD. A number density of bubbles was estimated by using a calibration data obtained with monosized standard particles. In addition, the effect of pulse length and a surfactant on the bubble population phenomena in a multibubble system are discussed.
Iida
Yasuo
Y
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Moriyama-ku, Nagoya, Japan. y.iida@aist.go.jp
Ashokkumar
Muthupandian
M
Tuziuti
Toru
T
Kozuka
Teruyuki
T
Yasui
Kyuichi
K
Towata
Atsuya
A
Lee
Judy
J