EP1064100A1 - Moyens de pulverisation electrohydrodynamique - Google Patents
Moyens de pulverisation electrohydrodynamiqueInfo
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- the present invention relates to electrohydrodynamic spraying means (hereinafter referred to as HDPE).
- HDPE is a means of producing nebulisates of liquid droplets of millimeter, micron or submicron sizes electrically charged.
- HDPE essentially consists in applying an electric field to a liquid so as to induce on the surface of this liquid electric charges of the same polarity as the voltage applied to it. These charges, accelerated by the electric field, generate a transformation of the drop of liquid into a cone. At the apex of this cone, a jet of liquid occurs which breaks up into droplets of millimeter, micron or submicron sizes (nebulisate or spray).
- HDPE in "cone-jet” mode poses however problem for liquids with high surface tension such as water or even liquids with reagents or active ingredients with surfactant effect.
- a first type of solution uses an increase in the dielectric strength of the gas surrounding the liquid by increasing the pressure of the gas and / or by using gases other than air such as CO2 or SF 6
- a second type of solution uses an additional electrode placed near the cone and the liquid jet so as to reduce the radial electric field in the gas in the vicinity of the fluid.
- the first type requires means of controlling the atmospheric environment
- the second type requires an additional high voltage source.
- the present application relates to new means making it possible to solve this problem, and aiming to overcome the drawbacks of the means of the prior art.
- the inventors have in fact established for the first time that a HDPE without impulse discharge regime could be established directly in air and at atmospheric pressure for liquids, the surface tension of which, as measured at ambient temperature, is higher at 0.055 N / m and, remarkably greater than 0.065 N / m. They have in particular established that such a HDPE can be obtained using a HDPE device meeting certain operating parameters, and quite essential, using a HDPE device comprising at least a liquid distribution duct whose dimensions of outside diameter and inside diameter, at the point of exit of the polarized liquid, correspond to an appropriate relationship in a range of outside diameters previously defined (cf. examples and chart in Figure 2 below) ). Such a relationship may in particular correspond to a ratio between (outside diameter dimension) and (inside diameter dimension) greater than or equal to a fixed limit value.
- the inventors have in fact observed that the regime of discharges in the gas (continuous regime of discharges -glow stabilizer- or impulse regime of discharges -dart destabilizers-) is directly linked to the diverging of the field in the gas. They thus established that, for liquids whose surface tension is greater than 0.055 N / m, and of remarkably greater than 0.065 N / m, it is essential, to achieve the desired HDPE in air at atmospheric pressure, to choose outside and inside diameters which allow to control:
- the present application thus has for first object an electrohydrodynamic spraying device, characterized in that it comprises at least one conduit at an outlet from which an polarized liquid can be sprayed, and in that said conduit has, at least at this outlet , outside and inside diameters such that said device is capable of spraying, into the air and at atmospheric pressure, a liquid whose surface tension, as measured at ambient temperature, is greater than 0.055 N / m, without generating a impulse discharge regime.
- the device according to the invention makes it possible to spray, into the air, at atmospheric pressure, a liquid whose surface tension, as measured at ambient temperature, is greater than 0.065 N / m, without generating a regime impulse of discharges.
- One means of demonstrating the absence of such a pulsed discharge regime comprises measuring the temporal variation of the current using a fast oscilloscope.
- electro-hydrodynamic spraying device we mean, in the present application, a device capable of generating a nebulized (or dispersion, or spray) of polarized liquid, that is to say a nebulized liquid fragmented, or sprayed, into electrically charged droplets.
- Such a device therefore comprises means for supplying and distributing liquid, and means for electrically polarizing the surface of this liquid.
- the liquid distribution means are provided by a conduit, or capillary, at an outlet from which the polarized liquid forms a conical meniscus, from the apex of which a jet leaves and then a dispersion of droplets of electrically charged liquid.
- surface tension we mean in the present application the surface tension as measured in air at ambient temperature and pressure.
- the device according to the invention designed so as to allow HDPE without impulse regime of discharges, in air and at atmospheric pressure, of liquids whose surface tension is greater than 0.055 N / m, and remarkably greater than 0.065 N / m has the advantage of allowing, without modification of said device, the HDPE of liquids whose surface tension is less than or equal to 0.055 N / m.
- said outside and inside diameters have dimensions which respond, when expressed in the same unit, to the following relationship: outside diameter dimension greater than or equal to about 1.445, inside diameter dimension
- outside diameter dimension preferably greater than or equal to approximately 1.5697, more preferably greater than or equal to approximately 1.6, and even more preferably greater than or equal to approximately 1.8.
- the upper limit of the appropriate values for this ratio (outside diameter dimension) / (inside diameter dimension) is determined by different technical limits. Mention may in particular be made of the technical limits linked to the machining of a very small internal diameter, or else those linked to the pressure drop which may result from a smaller internal diameter and which then requires hydraulic systems to be compensated for. higher pressure.
- the lower limit of the appropriate values for the ratio (outside diameter dimension) / (inside diameter dimension) is obtained from experimental measurements (observation of obtaining a stable HDPE as a function of a range of diameter values exterior and interior). Examples of such measures are given in the "examples” section below.
- the lower bound value naturally depends on the experimental conditions applied. Examples of suitable devices and their use are described in Figure 1 and in the “examples” section below.
- a person skilled in the art can, however, design and implement variants thereof.
- a person skilled in the art can naturally take account of the material and / or the arrangement of the support supporting said conduit, or capillary, insofar as this material and / or this arrangement are liable to affect the electric field produced.
- the measurements carried out, and thereby the lower bound value obtained also depend on the profile of the section at said outlet of the duct or capillary.
- the above-mentioned lower bound value 1.445 is thus obtained when said duct, or capillary, has at least at said outlet a straight straight section (right face): the straight section perpendicular to the axis of said duct or capillary, at said level outlet, has an annular profile.
- the outlet section is not perpendicular to the edge of the duct or capillary, the lower terminal value obtained can be significantly different.
- the lower bound value may appear lower (a value of 1.38 could be obtained under these conditions, by comparison with the value of 1.445 obtained using an outlet section perpendicular to the edge of the duct or capillary.
- the lower bound value may appear higher (a value of 1.8 could thus be obtained under these conditions, compared to 1.445 obtained using free sections with an annular profile. trade may therefore choose to machine a particular profile on the section at said conduit or capillary outlet.
- low viscosity means a viscosity of around 1 rnPa.s
- high viscosity means a viscosity around two orders of magnitude higher (ie around 100 rnPa.s) .
- the dimension of said outside diameter is less than half of this limit value D max .
- said outside and inside diameters have dimensions the ratio of which corresponds to a relationship specified above (greater than or equal to approximately 1.445, preferably greater than or equal to approximately 1.5697, more preferably greater than or equal to approximately 1.65, again more preferably greater than or equal to approximately 1.8), the dimension of said outside diameter is preferably less than one third of this limit value D max .
- said device comprises at least one conduit which, at least at said outlet, is essentially constituted by a capillary, such as a syringe needle.
- said device comprises a plurality of such conduits or capillaries.
- the device according to the invention is capable of atomizing, in air and at atmospheric pressure, a liquid whose surface tension is greater than 0.055 N / m, and remarkably greater than 0.065 N / m , by generating a continuous discharge regime, such as a crown type discharge regime (or glow regime, or d ⁇ ermstein regime).
- a continuous discharge regime such as a crown type discharge regime (or glow regime, or d ⁇ ermstein regime).
- Various means are known to those skilled in the art for controlling the continuous nature of a discharge regime. Mention may in particular be made of the measurement of the electric current using a rapid oscilloscope, the visual control of the stability of the cone of the liquid formed, and / or the particle size measurements making it possible to verify the bi-modal nature of the size distribution.
- droplets Such a bi-modal distribution can in particular correspond to a first population, the majority (for example 90% of the volume of liquid sprayed), of larger average droplets, and to a second population, mmoritary (for example 10% of the volume of liquid spray), finer medium-sized droplets.
- the device according to the invention is capable of spraying, into air and at atmospheric pressure, a liquid whose surface tension is greater than 0.055 N / m, and remarkably greater than 0.65 N / m, in a stable mode of WO 99/49981 -
- the device according to the invention further comprises means making it possible to electrically polarize said liquid upstream or during its passage through said conduit, in particular means making it possible to apply an electrical voltage to said liquid upstream or during its passage through the inside said conduit, so as to polarize it.
- any voltage to obtain a stable HDPE is appropriate. Its choice depends on the polarization sought. Advantageously, this tension is continuous.
- the device according to the invention then produces nebulisates whose charge always has the same sign (that of the applied DC voltage. This voltage can be positive as well as negative, depending on the intended applications.
- said voltage is a DC voltage, preferably a positive DC voltage, such as a DC voltage O 99/49981 -j -, PCT / FR99 / 00730
- said means making it possible to apply such an electrical voltage to said liquid essentially consist of at least one high-voltage generator which can be connected to the ground on the one hand, and which can on the other hand be connected to said liquid either directly upstream or during its passage inside said conduit, either indirectly via a conductive material in contact with said liquid upstream or during its passage inside said conduit.
- Said conduit may in fact comprise an electrically conductive material on its internal surface, or over an internal thickness, and / or is essentially made of such a material.
- the device according to the invention may further, for safety, include a protective resistance making it possible to limit the current in the sprayed polarized liquid, in particular a resistance of protection making it possible to limit the discharge current of said liquid in the case of the passage of a very strong current.
- a protective resistance making it possible to limit the current in the sprayed polarized liquid
- a resistance of protection making it possible to limit the discharge current of said liquid in the case of the passage of a very strong current.
- Such a resistance can advantageously be placed between said high voltage generator and its connection point to said fluid.
- said device also comprises means making it possible to depolarize said liquid after spraying, that is to say to discharge the droplets of liquid produced by contact on a grounded surface.
- said means making it possible to depolarize said liquid after spraying are placed at a distance D, hereinafter called inter-electrode distance, advantageously greater than the minimum distance which allows the passage to the arc before the establishment of HDPE.
- inter-electrode distance advantageously greater than the minimum distance which allows the passage to the arc before the establishment of HDPE.
- said device further comprises means making it possible, during the spraying of said liquid, to collect a discharge current in the gas surrounding said polarized liquid, such as in particular a conductive material having a opening of shape and dimensions allowing the passage of the sprayed liquid while collecting said stream of gaseous ions created by electrical discharges in the gas.
- a discharge current in the gas surrounding said polarized liquid such as in particular a conductive material having a opening of shape and dimensions allowing the passage of the sprayed liquid while collecting said stream of gaseous ions created by electrical discharges in the gas.
- Such means are particularly suitable when said device is used for the purpose of producing a nebuliser whose polarity must interact with components of reverse polarity. They are also suitable for ensuring that the field on the surface of the liquid in the production area remains independent of the charge densities + and - under the ring (coagulation phenomena, charge modulation, and neutralization).
- the device according to the invention is thus capable of controlling the discharge regime over a wide operating range, typically over voltage ranges of the order of several thousand volts.
- Such means for collecting a discharge current make it possible in particular to collect the gaseous ions created by such a discharge current, without however collecting the droplets of liquid produced.
- a particularly suitable means consists of a counter electrode, or conductive material connected to ground, placed at a distance d from said conduit outlet, and having an opening allowing the passage of the droplets of liquid produced while collecting the gaseous ions. created by a landfill. Said distance d can in particular be evaluated by trial and error, by moving said means by translation along the axis of the nebulus of liquid produced until non-collection of liquid droplets is obtained, and effective collection of said current. of discharge.
- Such a means may in particular have an annular shape.
- the device according to the invention further comprises means making it possible to supply said conduit with liquid.
- Said conduit can in particular be supplied with liquid using one or more pumps, or using a tank which has a height of liquid suitable for controlling the flow rate.
- said device further comprises means allowing an average flow of operating liquid at the inlet, or inside said conduit of a similar value, in m 3 .
- s "1 which is within a range of one factor of approximately 10 between its upper limit and its lower limit, said range comprising, preferably centrally, a value which can correspond to the following formula:
- A (4/3) ⁇ r 3 ] / ⁇ q , A being a constant different from 0 and 1, between approximately 0.1 and 10 and preferably equal to approximately 0.5, r the desired drop radius expressed in m, and ⁇ q the electrical relaxation constant of said liquid expressed in s.
- said device further comprises means allowing a measurement of the particle size of the dispersion produced by the spraying of said polarized liquid, and in particular an LDA (Laser Doppler Anemometry) type system, and / or means for measuring the electric current carried by the dispersion produced by the spraying of said polarized liquid, and in particular an oscilloscope.
- LDA Laser Doppler Anemometry
- Such means make it possible in particular to follow the evolution of the particle size of the droplets produced and / or the evolution of said current during the spraying of said liquid.
- said liquid is essentially a solution (solvent and solute (s) neutral (s) or ionic (s), organic (s) or mineral (s))), or a mixture of solutions chosen ( s) from the group consisting of water, ultrapure water, distilled water, water comprising conductive salts, an organic solvent supplemented with surfactant molecule (s), ethanol supplemented with surfactant molecule (s), acetone supplemented with surfactant molecule (s), ethylene glycol supplemented with surfactant molecule (s).
- the device according to the invention has many applications of interest.
- HDPE devices in general, such as coating or surface deposition, to which are added new applications now feasible using the device according to the invention due to its ability to spray, in air and at atmospheric pressure , a liquid whose surface tension is greater than 0.055 N / m, and remarkably greater than 0.065 N / m, without generating a pulse discharge regime. Mention may in particular be made of applications in the field of electric washing of particles, and in the biological field.
- said device is applied to the collection of particles, and in particular of polluting particles, present in an aerosol (dusting).
- aerosol dust
- Such collection is effected by electrical coagulation of said particles to be eliminated with said droplets of fluid produced by the device according to the invention; so that such coagulation is effective, said device is then applied to the production of liquid droplets of reverse polarity to the polarity (natural or induced) of said particles to be eliminated.
- the device according to the invention is therefore, in a preferred embodiment of the invention, placed on a vein of industrial effluent to be dusted, in which it can produce a nebulisate of polarization opposite to that of the particles of the aerosol effluent from liquid (s) with surface tension greater than 0.055 N / m, and remarkably greater than 0.065 N / m, such as water.
- a plurality of devices according to the invention on such a stream of effluents.
- the device according to the invention Compared with the devices of the prior art for the collection of aerosols such as in particular a fluidized bed and a wet washer, the device according to the invention has in particular the advantage of producing charged droplets of liquid of finer sizes and, in the case of an application to collect polluting particles in an aerosol, to limit the volume of resulting wastewater.
- the device according to the invention also has the advantages of increasing the collection surface per unit volume of collector fluid (increase in the inter-particle electrostatic forces, finer medium-sized collecting droplets), of avoiding the problem of reduction.
- the device according to the invention also has, in general, the advantages of reducing installation costs, energy costs, wastewater treatment costs (due to the low flow rates of wastewater produced by the device according to the invention, from beech to cubic meter per hour). It also has the advantage of reliability: the percolation of the collecting droplets on the walls used for inertial collection makes it possible to avoid accumulation of the products collected on the electrodes, as observed using said devices of the prior art.
- the device according to the invention makes it particularly advantageous to work continuously.
- said device is therefore applied to the collection by inertia, following electrical coagulation on larger droplets, of particles whose initial size is less than or equal to a micron, and in particular of polluting particles of such size, present in an aerosol, or in an effluent convertible into an aerosol.
- the device according to the invention by allowing the control of the size (s) of charged droplets produced, makes it possible to produce charged droplets whose size (s) is (are) optimal for cause, after coagulation to said particles to be eliminated, their fall by simple inertia in a controlled and efficient manner. With the device according to the invention, it is not necessary to use, for said collection, filtration systems. Pressure losses linked to the use of such filtration systems are thus avoided.
- the device according to the invention also makes it possible to control the volume of water necessary for this growth, and thus the volume of used water to be treated.
- One means for varying the size (s) of droplets produced by the device according to the invention consists in particular in varying the flow rate of water, that is to say in varying the mechanical flow rate of liquid by varying the speed of supply of liquid to the inlet, or inside, of said conduit, and / or to varying those of the properties specific to said liquid which influence its flow rate, in particular its conductivity properties ( either by modifying the properties of a single and same basic fluid, or using different liquids with specific properties).
- Said effluent or aerosol can in particular originate from an incineration plant, from a chemical, metallurgical industry, from a glass industry, from a boiler or from a tliermic central plant, from a road tunnel, from a vehicle, in particular a diesel vehicle.
- said device is applied to the electroporation of biological membranes (plant or animal) for the transfer of organic molecules, and in particular of nucleic acids.
- the present application also relates to a method of HDPE characterized in that it implements at least one device according to the invention. It also relates to a method for depolluting aerosol effluents, or transformable into aerosols, from which one seeks to eliminate polluting particles, characterized in that it comprises the steps of: - polarizing said polluting particles present in aerosol,
- FIGS. 1 to 6 The characteristics and advantages of the present invention are illustrated by the following examples given without limitation. In these examples, reference is made to FIGS. 1 to 6:
- FIG. 1 represents an embodiment of the HDPE device according to the invention
- - Figure 2 represents an abacus (capillary diameter in m as a function of the electrical relaxation time in s) on which can be read values of external diameters of conduit suitable for producing HDPE in air, at pressure atmospheric, and without impulse discharge regime, for liquids with surface tension greater than 0.055 N / m, and remarkably greater than 0.065 N / m (dotted line: limit values of external diameter of conduit for a liquid of high viscosity , continuous straight line: limit values for external diameters of conduit for a liquid of low viscosity), - Figures 3 and 4 show, depending on the internal diameter
- a straight line (vertical straight line D max ) marks the upper bound with appropriate outside diameters.
- - Figures 5 and 6 show, like Figures 3 and 4, obtaining a probability equal to 1 (sign +), or less than 1 (sign -), for HDPE, without pulse discharges regime (in "cone-jet-glow” mode), of a liquid with a conductivity of 100 ⁇ S / m (figure 5) or 1000 ⁇ S / m (figure 6) and with a surface tension greater than 0.055 N / m: and in particular 0.065 N / m: in these FIGS.
- the line D ext 1.445 D mt is plotted which traces an operating limit of the capillary 1 according to another arrangement of the invention (absence of metal support perpendicular to said conduit or capillary).
- a straight line (vertical straight line D max ) marks the upper bound with appropriate outside diameters.
- a HDPE device is mounted as shown in FIG. 1.
- This HDPE device comprises in particular:
- liquid distributor duct made of conductive or capillary material, 1,
- the ring 4 is placed at a distance d from the capillary 1 equal to 2 to 4 cm, so as to collect the gaseous ions created by the discharges in the gas surrounding the liquid, while allowing the nebulization of charged droplets to pass.
- a counter-electrode 5 (optional) is placed at a distance D from the capillary 1 so as to collect the charges of droplets of the nebulisate. If it is sought to produce an aerosol of droplets charged suspended in a gas, only the capillary 1 and the ring 4 are essential.
- the HDPE device also includes, as illustrated in FIG. 1, means of analysis and measurements, namely:
- LDA laser Doppler Anemometry
- an oscilloscope (Oscillo 200 Mhz) 8 for measuring the electric current carried by the nebulized product.
- the voltage applied to the liquid, via the conductive capillary 1, is for example between +1 kV and +30 kV approximately for interelectrode distances of the order of approximately 1 to 10 cm.
- a positive voltage is applied preferentially because the threshold field of a negative discharge is less than the threshold field of a positive discharge, which makes it possible to widen the range of voltages applicable to the liquid in the case of positive HDPEs.
- the capillary 1 is constituted by a syringe needle. Different outside (D ext ) and inside (D mt ) diameters of capillary 1 were tested.
- FIG. 2 represents an abacus making it possible to read the maximum value of appropriate external diameter: as a function of the time of electrical relaxation in s (abscissa axis) of the liquid considered, we read the maximum value of external diameter of capillary in m (ordinate axis) on the continuous line if it is a fluid with low viscosity, on the dotted right if it is a high viscosity liquid.
- the terms "low” and "high” viscosity are understood in accordance with the concepts commonly accepted by those skilled in the art.
- 0.055 N / m, and remarkably greater than 0.065 N / m) is chosen to be less than the limit value read in FIG. 2.
- the values of external diameters of the capillary 1 range from 0.324 to 1.8 mm.
- the results of the present example were obtained with capillaries placed on a conductive support arranged perpendicular to the axis of the capillary.
- each couple (outside diameter - inside diameter) is tested with different liquids with a surface tension greater than 0.055 N / m, and a remarkable mass greater than 0.065 N / m at room temperature (liquids ranging from ultrapure water (conductivity 10 ⁇ S / m ; ⁇ q 70 ⁇ s) with water doped with conductive salts (conductivity 1000 .S / m; ⁇ q 7.10 "7 s)).
- the entire device according to the invention is placed in air and at atmospheric pressure, a positive DC voltage between +1 and +30 kV is applied, and said device is supplied with liquid.
- the LDA 7 and oscilloscope 8 systems make it possible to observe the obtaining of a stable or unstable HDPE (absence or presence of a pulsed discharge regime). We then calculate the probability of obtaining, for all of the liquids tested, a stable HDPE for each Dext / Dint couple tested.
- Tables 1 and 2 above, as well as FIGS. 3 and 4 show that, if the values of D ex t and D mt correspond to an appropriate relation, a HDPE without a pulsed discharge regime can be obtained, in the air and at atmospheric pressure, for a liquid with surface tension greater than 0.055 N / m, and remarkably greater than 0.065 N / m, with a probability equal to 1.
- a probability equal to 1 For example, for D ext going up to a value equal to (D ext maximum) / 3 approximately, an appropriate relation can be calculated and read in figure 3 (liquid of conductivity of 100 u_S / m) and figure 4 (liquid of conductivity of 1000 // S / m ) as being: Dext ratio of capillary 1 greater than approximately 1.5697.
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| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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