Volume 42, Issue 7 pp. 1388-1394
Research Article

Visualization of Mass Transfer during Droplet Formation

Jens Stefan Heine

Jens Stefan Heine

TU Kaiserslautern, Chair of Separation and Technology, Gottlieb-Daimler-Strasse 44, PO Box 3049, 67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany

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Hans-Jörg Bart

Corresponding Author

Hans-Jörg Bart

TU Kaiserslautern, Chair of Separation and Technology, Gottlieb-Daimler-Strasse 44, PO Box 3049, 67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany

Correspondence: Hans-Jörg Bart ([email protected]), TU Kaiserslautern, Chair of Separation and Technology, Gottlieb-Daimler-Strasse 44, PO Box 3049, 67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany.Search for more papers by this author
First published: 17 May 2019
Citations: 11

Abstract

The impact of mass transfer in liquid-liquid extraction during droplet formation in a quiescent continuous phase was investigated. The impact of droplet size, concentration, and formation rate on a hanging droplet was analyzed via laser induced fluorescence (LIF) using rhodamine 6G as tracer in the system of toluene and acetone in water. The droplet formation rate has a major impact on mass transfer and the mixing pattern inside the droplet. Very fast mass transfer induced by Marangoni convection was visualized at a high local resolution independently of concentration and formation rate.

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