Performance of five ultrasonic transducers modified for efficient atomization

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Hiroshi MatsuuraHideki Hashimoto

Abstract

Performance of five ultrasonic transducers modified with different shapes of electrodes is investigated for efficient atomization. A circular silver electrode, which is conventionally used as standard on a transducer, is chemically replaced with five shapes of silver electrodes (circular, toroidal, singlet, doublet, and cross). Each electrode reflects its precise shape on the water surface and statically forms characteristic three-dimensional geometry of a water column. The modified electrode also affects the dynamics of this water column, generating two types of wobbling on the column and inducing three types of atomization depending on the shape of the electrodes. Statistical analysis indicates that the shape of the electrode on an ultrasonic transducer affects the speed of atomization, showing that the singlet electrode exhibits the highest speed of atomization (4 mg/s). The mechanisms of atomization are analyzed from the viewpoint of energy transformation with reference to mass transformation of the oscillating liquid, indicating that the vibration energy of the transducer is transferred to the water film through resonance, consuming this vibration energy with four kinds of energy such as kinetic energy of atomized mists an...Continue Reading

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