Spray Behavior and Mean Droplet Diameter in Mutural Impingement Spray System.

Abstract

Behavior of spray-to spray impingement, where two spray jets were formed EFI (Electronic Fuel Injection) nozzles and impinged each other, was studied experimentally. This system was named MISS EFI. Spray penetration and the Sauter mean diameter of the spray were measured to investigate the effect of spray-to-spray impingement. When the impingement location was set at the vicinity of the nozzles, impingement phenomena became to be jet to jet impingement of the liquid column. In this condition, the penetration became shorter than that of the individual penetration. However, the penetration did not changed after spray-to-spray impingement. From the photographs of jet-to-jet impingement, it was confirmed that the liquid film was formed by the impingement, and then this liquid film disintegrated to small droplets. In the spray-to-spray impingement, on the other hand, the relatively large droplets still existed in the impinged spray, because the two sprays crossed each other without disintegration of the droplets. The photograph of the spray-to-spray impingement showed that the droplet-to-droplet impingement in the spray was rarely observed. Further, the chance of coagulation of the droplets was less observed than the disintegration of the dropled. These behavior of the spray-to-spray impingement agreed with the reduction of the Sauter mean diameter of the impinged spray.