Resonant Ultrasonic Defoaming in Aqueous Evaporation/Boiling Processes at Different Size Scales
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY(2022)
摘要
Unwanted foam bears the risk of affecting different thermal industrial processes negatively, by reduced process efficiency, contamination, and total shutdown. Mechanical defoaming methods are difficult to implement, while chemical anti-foaming agents are challenging in correct dosing. Ultrasonic defoaming actuators destroy foams purely mechanically from air-borne, but their energy consumption per area is still excessive at 10 W cm(-2). Results show that a frequency sweep between 40-168 kHz and a water-borne sonication needs power densities of around 0.1 W cm(-2) for a lab-scale experiment to a copper column still. At this power level, ultrasound enforces the foam drainage, thus reducing the foam height and the process time of the column still by 20 %. The chosen frequency range indicates a resonant behavior of small liquid-loaded lamella and plateau channels.
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Column still, Defoaming, Resonance frequency, Thermal processes, Ultrasonic defoaming
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