The development of a novel lead-free microelectromechanical-system (MEMS)-based atomizer using the principle of thermal bubble actuation is presented. It is a low-cost, lead-free design that is environmentally friendly and harmless to humans. It has been tested to be applicable over a wide range of fluid viscosities, ranging from 1 cP (e.g., water) to 200 cP (e.g., oil-like fluid) at room tempe...

Spray drying is a process widely used to produce fruit juice powders. In powders, it results with the good quality, low water activity, easier transport and storage. The physicochemical properties of powders produced by spray drying depend on the variables of process and/or operating parameters. In the present review, the principle of spray drying was described. In addition, some factors such a...

Background: currently, functional foods are the type of foods of most interest to the modern consumer, due to the health benefits they provide. Objectives: Optimize the spray drying process to obtain cape gooseberry powder added with active compounds. Methods: A process of spray drying was carried out to obtain a powder from cape gooseberry suspensions added with vitamin C, iron, folic acid, is...

A computational analysis of flow in simplex fuel atomizers using the arbitrary-Lagrangian–Eulerian method is presented. It is well established that the geometry of an atomizer plays an important role in governing its performance. We have investigated the effect on atomizer performance of four geometric parameters, namely, inlet slot angle, spin chamber convergence angle, trumpet angle, and trum...

In recent years process heap-based attacks have increased significantly. These attacks exploit the system under attack via the heap, typically by using a heap spraying attack. A large number of malicious files and URLs offering dangerous contents are potentially encountered every day, both by client-side and server-side applications. Static and dynamic methods have been proposed to detect heap-...

Interferences of some metals in the determination of arsenic by hydride generation atomic absorption spectrometry utilizing a quartz tube atomizer were studied. The atomizers were coated under vacuum with Ni, Au, Pd and Cr. The arsenic signal was almost totally suppressed by all the metal coatings and thus the interferences from metal ions in the determination of arsenic were attributed both to...

Antimony is one of the constituents of pewter, an alloy composed of a minimum of 90% tin with the balance being made up with copper, antimony and perhaps some bismuth. A method has been developed to determine Sb in acetic acid leachates from pewter cups. The employed instrumentation, an atomic absorption spectrometer, equipped with a quartz trap-and-atomizer device, is simple and relatively ine...

This study of effervescent atomization, a two-phase gas-liquid spray generation technique that offers many advantages over conventional atomizers, shows the advantage streamlined aerator design flat-end type with respect to formation gas-void in wake interior an inside-out atomizer. The experiments use high-speed shadowgraphy visualizations. It is observed that, design, undesirable and leads ch...

Our work is being conducted with the aim to develop an effervescent atomizer for industrial burners that will generate a fine and stable spray in large turn-down ratio. The single-hole, plain orifice atomizer is powered with light heating oil and uses air as an atomizing medium in the “outside-in” gas injection configuration. Published design concepts of the effervescent atomizer are described....