Browsing by Author "Hdaib, Mohammad Yousef Amer"
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- ItemExperimental study of foaming agents in water and their application metal foaming.Hdaib, Mohammad Yousef Amer; Fraňa Karel, prof. Ing. Ph.D. : 55679In this study an experimental investigation was performed on foaming process of water-alcoholic mixtures. The aim of this study is to provide an illustration on foaming phenomena in water alcoholic-mixtures, and an investigation of its application in foaming process in molten metal. In the first and second sections of this study a comprehensive review was presented on physiochemical properties and theory of foaming process in both water-alcoholic mixtures and molten metal. In the third and fourth parts a description of the experimental setup and procedures were presented with results. In the last section a conclusion of results was presented. The used experiment has three main parts: in the first part best foaming conditions were specified by air injection in water-ethanol and water-isopropanol mixtures at different alcoholic volume fractions from 0 to 1 at 50 L/h flow rate and 20 seconds foaming time. While in the second part foaming behavior analyzed at different flow rate (15, 25, 50 and 75 L/h) and foaming time (20, 35, 55 seconds). In the third part, drainage velocity was calculated by using a proposed method based on literature data. Furthermore, an Image processing code was written to analyze experimental data. According to previous measured data, the dimensionless parameters: Reynolds, Marangoni, and Capillary numbers were calculated. The result of this study shows that, for water-isopropyl mixtures foam did not appear, while for water-ethanol mixtures a best foaming condition occurred at 0.15 ethanol volume fraction. Also, the drainage velocity was mainly a function of foam thickness.