Water drop impacts on a single-layer of mesh screen membrane Effect of water hammer pressure and advancing contact angles.pdfVIP

Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 82 (2017) 83–93 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science journal homepage: /locate/etfs Water drop impacts on a single-layer of mesh screen membrane: Effect of water hammer pressure and advancing contact angles Jinliang Xu ?, Jian Xie, Xiaotian He, Yu Cheng, Qi Liu The Beijing Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer for Low Grade Energy Utilization, North China Electric Power University, 102206 Beijing, China article info Article history: Received 21 February 2016 Received in revised form 9 October 2016 Accepted 6 November 2016 Available online 8 November 2016 Keywords: Drop impact Mesh screen membrane Water hammer pressure Advancing contact angle Capillary pressure abstract Mesh screen membrane is a functional material for gas-water or oil-water separation. If a water drop impacts on the membrane at a suf?ciently high velocity, a critical condition at which daughter droplets are generated and fall down below the membrane occurs, under which the separator is failure. The objective of this paper is to determine the critical condition. Six mesh screen membranes are used. The mesh wire diameter and mesh pore are on the same-scale (10–100 lm), involving apparent cross sectional area decrease of mesh pores in the membrane depth direction. Thus, drop impacting on the membrane yields signi?cant liquid compression in $ls timescale to cause additional water hammer pressure. The analysis shows that the liquid compression is related to the number of mesh pores within drop project area (N). The water hammer pressure relative to dynamic pressure is found to be raised with N. The drop impacting process is governed by the dynamic pressure together with the additional water hammer pressure competed with the maximum capillary pressure at the throat location of the mesh pore. The modi?ed Weber number àWew/cos(hA) was correlated with N in a single curve to predict the critical condition for drop