Liquid-Liquid Emulsion Produced by 3D-Printed Vortex-Based Hydrodynamic Cavitation Device

Abhijeet H. Thaker; Paul Boreham; Kyriakos I. Kourousis; Vivek V. Ranade

doi:10.1002/ceat.202300061

Liquid-Liquid Emulsion Produced by 3D-Printed Vortex-Based Hydrodynamic Cavitation Device

Abhijeet H. Thaker, Paul Boreham, Kyriakos I. Kourousis, Vivek V. Ranade

University of Limerick

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3D-printed vortex-based devices have shown excellent performance in realizing hydrodynamic cavitation (HC) and have opened up new ways of effectively producing oil-in-water emulsions via cavitation. In this work, the performance of machined and 3D-printed vortex-based HC devices for producing liquid-liquid emulsions was compared in terms of droplet breakage efficiency and energy consumption per kilogram of emulsion. The Euler numbers of 3D-printed and VMC-machined HC devices were 42 and 48, respectively. The differences in droplet size distribution and other characteristic diameters were insignificant after 50 passes. The present work confirms the potential of harnessing 3D printing technology for fabricating HC devices and can facilitate development of new device designs to improve overall emulsification performance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1970-1976
Number of pages	7
Journal	Chemical Engineering and Technology
Volume	46
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/ceat.202300061
Publication status	Published - Sep 2023

Keywords

3D printing
Droplet breakage
Emulsions
Hydrodynamic cavitation

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