Affiliations: [a] Faculty of Civil Aviation and Aeronautical, Kunming University of Science & Technology, Kunming, P.R. China | [b] School of Economics, Sichuan University, Chengdu, P.R. China
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Corresponding author. Junbing Qian, Faculty of Civil Aviation and Aeronautical, Kunming University of Science & Technology, Kunming 650500, P.R. China. Tel.: +86 18669065231; E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: Nozzle spray atomization is widely used in industrial and agricultural production processes and is a very complicated physical change. The spray atomization of the nozzle is a process in which the droplets are continuously broken into finer particles under the action of force, in order to study the effect of nozzle atomization, that is, droplet size distribution characteristics. The experimental average mathematical model of droplet size distribution was established by introducing Sauter Mean Diameter (SMD). The droplet size distribution in the atomization field of the nozzle is studied by simulation. In the experimental study, the high-speed camera, external mixing air atomizing nozzle platform experimental device and image processing were used, and the atomization field was divided into multiple observation areas. Through the measurement of several local observation areas, the droplet size distribution of the whole atomization field is constructed. It provides a reference for the study of the atomization field of the nozzle and a basis for the intuitive understanding of the droplet size distribution in the atomization field of the nozzle. The effective atomization area of the nozzle atomization was selected to study the influence of the liquid flow rate, the liquid temperature and the nozzle pressure on the atomized particle size distribution of the externally mixed atomizing nozzle. The internal law is obtained, which provides a basis and reference for effectively controlling the atomization effect in the atomization field.
