Acoustic design principles for energy efficient excitation of a high intensity cavitation zone
2019 (English) In: Proceedings of theICA 2019 AND EAA EUROREGIO: 23rd International Congress on Acoustics,integrating 4th EAA Euroregio 2019 / [ed] Martin Ochmann, Micchael Vorländer, Janina Fels, Aachen, Germany: RWTH Publications , 2019, p. 948-955Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Energy-efficient process intensification is a key aspect for a sustainable industrial production. To improve energy conversion efficiency high intensity cavitation is a promising method, especially in cases where the material to be treated is valuable and on the micro meter scale. Transient collapsing cavitation bubbles gives powerful effects on objects immersed in fluids, like cellulose fibers, mineral particles, enzymes, etc. The cavitation process needs optimization and control, since optimal conditions is multivariate challenge. This study focuses on different design principles to achieve high intensity cavitation in a specific volume in a continuous flow. This study explores some potential design principles to obtain energy efficient process intensification. The objective is to tune several different resonance phenomena to create a powerful excitation of a flowing suspension (two-phase flow and cavitation bubbles). The reactor is excited by sonotrodes, connected to two coupled resonant tube structures, at the critical frequency. Finally cavitation bubbles are initiated by a flow through a venturi nozzle. The acoustically optimised reactor geometry is modelled in Comsol Multiphysics®, and excited by dedicated ultrasound signals at three different frequencies. The effect of the high intensity cavitation is experimentally evaluated by calorimetric method, foil tests and degree of fibrillation on cellulose fibers.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages Aachen, Germany: RWTH Publications , 2019. p. 948-955
Series
Proceedings of the ICA congress, ISSN 2226-7808, E-ISSN 2415-1599
Keywords [en]
Structural acoustics, Ultrasound, Hydrodynamics, Cavitation
National Category
Fluid Mechanics Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Research subject Engineering Acoustics; Electronic systems
Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-76063 DOI: 10.18154/RWTH-CONV-239450 Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85099328601 OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-76063 DiVA, id: diva2:1352669
Conference 23rd International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 2019) integrating 4th EAA EUREGIO 2019, 9-13 September, 2019, Aachen, Germany
Funder Swedish Energy Agency
Note ISBN för värdpublikation: 978-3-939296-15-7
2019-09-192019-09-192025-10-22 Bibliographically approved