Abstract
ABSTRACTThe present study deals with the numerical analysis of the water droplet evaporation in the carrier gas inside an ultrasonic spray pyrolysis (USP) device. Droplet evaporation is studied through numerical computational fluid dynamics simulation using Ansys Fluent version 16.1 software. The governing equations for mass, momentum, and energy contain source terms for the effects of droplet evaporation. The results are provided as time dependent evaporation rate, temperature and diameter of droplet. Additional experimental evaporation of HAuCl4 solution droplets with temperatures of 80, 100 and 120°C was performed on a USP device. The obtained dried particles of gold chloride were characterized with TEM and analysed for their size and shapes to determine the effect of evaporation rate on the dried particle morphology. This provides insight into selecting optimal parameters for gold nanoparticle synthesis with HAuCl4 in USP, for targeted sizes and shapes of the nanoparticles.
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