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Charge and Size Distributions of Electrospray Drops

✍ Scribed by L. de Juan; J.Fernández de la Mora


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
263 KB
Volume
186
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-9797

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✦ Synopsis


points are often called Taylor cones, because of Taylor's The distributions of charge q and diameter d of drops emitted explanation of their conical shape (2). However, they had from electrified liquid cones in the cone-jet mode are investigated been studied systematically long before by Zeleny (3-5). with two aerosol instruments. A differential mobility analyzer Their greatest practical interest is associated to the fact that (DMA, Vienna type) first samples the spray drops, selects those their apex region is not static, acting instead as a center of with electrical mobilities within a narrow band, and either meaejection of charge and mass. A clear classification of the sures the associated current or passes them to a second instrument.

diversity of modes in which such emissions occur has been

The drops may also be individually counted optically and sized offered by Cloupeau and Prunet-Foch (6, 7). The only reby sampling them into an aerodynamic size spectrometer (API's gime that will be considered in this work is their cone-jet Aerosizer). For a given cone-jet, the distribution of charge q for the main electrospray drops is some 2.5 times broader than their mode (8, 9), where the conical tip deforms continuously distribution of diameters d, with q max /q min Ç 4. But mobility-seinto a very thin and steady micro-jet. This jet eventually lected drops have relative standard deviations of only 5% for both breaks into a stream of charged drops, which then open up d and q, showing that the support of the (q, d) distribution is a into a spray commonly referred to as an electrospray. This narrow band centered around a curve q(d). The approximate oneterm is often also used ambiguously to refer not only to the dimensionality of this support region is explained through the cloud of charged particles but also to the cone-jet and even mechanism of jet breakup, which is a random process with only to the whole atomization process.

one degree of freedom: the wavelength of axial modulation of the

The net current I carried by these jets and the mean diamejet. The observed near constancy of the charge over volume ratio ter d of their associated drops have been studied under a (q Ç d 3 ) shows that the charge is frozen in the liquid surface at variety of conditions. As a result, the following approximate the time scale of the breakup process. The charge over volume scaling laws have emerged for the case of liquids with elecratio of the primary drops varies between 98 and 55% of the ratio of spray current I over liquid flow rate Q, and decreases at trical conductivities K § 10 05 S/m: increasing Q. I/Q is therefore an unreliable measure of the charge density of these drops.


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