Heat-resistant broad-bandwidth liquid droplet generators

Details Heat-resistant broad-bandwidth liquid droplet generators Heat-resistant broad-bandwidth liquid droplet generators

1994-09-19

1996-10-01

Cuchlinski, Jr., William A.

Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing

With means to vibrate or jiggle discharge

By electric transducer

239135, 310331, B05B 108

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055605435

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus and methods for making uniformly-sized and predictably-spaced droplets from high-temperature liquids. Liquid droplet generators having electromechanical driving elements are coupled to a power supply to apply pulsed excitation forces through a wall of a delivery tube to a high-temperature liquid, e.g., a liquid metal, epoxy, or polymer. The excitation forces generated by the driver induce capillary vibrations in the liquid within the delivery tube. Liquid jet streams having capillary vibrations when exiting an orifice break up into groups of substantially uniformly-sized liquid droplets shortly after leaving the orifice. Droplets may be produced in a uniformly-spaced series, or individually on demand in response to a single burst of force from the driving element. A heat source is also thermally coupled to the delivery tube to maintain the liquid in a high-temperature state. Embodiments using heat-sensitive elements thermally insulate those elements from the wall of the heated delivery tube and may also actively cool the elements by one or more heat exchangers. A magnetohydrodynamic embodiment couples a magnetic field, having spaced points of maximum intensity, to a fluid stream exiting an orifice, causing the stream to break into droplets in response to the periodic magnetic field.

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