A temporal stability analysis was carried out for a planar liquid sheet sandwiched between two gas streams moving with unequal velocities. Perturbation analysis was carried out up to second order using the initial amplitude of disturbance of the liquid sheet as the perturbation parameter. Both para-sinuous and para-varicose modes were investigated to determine the dominant break-up mechanism. T...

One of the important characteristics in predicting the flow of two phases (gas and liquid) in the industrial equipment is the gas percentage in the liquid, which is called voidage. This characteristic can be measured by different methods; the optical method is one of them. In the present work, a He-Ne laser light is employed to measure the voidage. The measurement depends on the principle of la...

We study experimentally the atomization of a liquid sheet by a parallel gas flow, in order to understand the conditions of destabilization of the liquid sheet and the conditions of drop creation. We study in particular the regimes at low M (ratio of gas/liquid dynamic pressures), to test the scaling law proposed and validated in previous studies at large M(M = 16). The inviscid stability analys...

In the most application of nozzle with gas-liquid two-phase flow, the quality of mixture in exhaust of nozzle is the most important parameter as well as the flow velocity. On the other hand, in some industrial application, such as water injection in forced induction (turbocharged or supercharged) internal combustion engine the spray quality is the main goal of designing. In this case and for im...

Gas exchange is improved during partial liquid ventilation with perfluorocarbon in animal models of acute lung injury. The specific mechanisms are unproved. We measured end-expiratory lung volume (EELV) by null-point body plethysmography in anesthetized sheep. Measurements of gas exchange and EELV were made before and after acute lung injury was induced with intravenous oleic acid to decrease E...

We describe the use of electron-capture gas chromatography or reversed-phase "high-performance" liquid chromatography for concurrent analysis for diazepam and nordiazepam in serum. In the gas-chromatographic analysis our use of a new chemically deactivated stationary liquid phase, SP 2250-DB (Supelco, Inc.), resulted in improved chromatographic sensitivity and peak symmetry for the two benzodia...

In diffusion, gases (or liquids) move from an area of high concentration (partial pressure) to areas of low concentration (partial pressure). If there is a mixture of gases in a container, the pressure of each gas (partial pressure or concentration) is equal to the pressure that each gas would produce if it occupied the container alone. This applies equally well to the concentration of a gas in...

We demonstrate nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging of the flow and diffusion of laser-polarized xenon (129Xe) gas undergoing convection above evaporating laser-polarized liquid xenon. The large xenon NMR signal provided by the laser-polarization technique allows more rapid imaging than one can achieve with thermally polarized gas-liquid systems, permitting shorter time-scale events such as...

In this study, hydrogen was recovered and purified by using a membrane contactor unit from CO2-rich gas without the use of any basic chemicals such as amines. The operational parameters were adjusted to achieve high CO2 removal H2 recovery. effects flow rate, pressure, composition (CO2/H2 ratio), pressure difference between liquid gas, gas/liquid ratio on recovery investigated. Depending contac...