What You Will Learn

Learn how to control liquid breakup and drop trajectories to:

• Reduce fuel consumption of your spray system
• Increase transfer efficiency for painting and coatings using electrostatics
• Improve targeting and reduce wind drift in aerial spraying of pesticides
• Provide uniform coating thickness for pharmaceutical tablets
• Improve powder characteristics for spray drying of chemicals and foods
• Deposit aerosol medications on lung surfaces for drug delivery through the respiratory tract.

Learn how improved atomization and control of your spray system can lead to increased fuel and energy efficiency, as well as reduced emission of pollutants.

Learn how to transfer technology from highly efficient gas turbine aircraft engines to direct injection gasoline and diesel engines.

Learn how to decrease the emission of pollutants that increase global warming.

Learn how to improve transfer efficiency for paint deposition on vehicles and coating of surfaces and thereby reduce generation and disposal of toxic pollutants.

Learn how to minimize wind drift and improve targeting when using pesticide sprays in order to avoid crop damage.

Learn how to use electrostatics to improve the transfer efficiency of pesticides and thereby increase the amount of chemical that reaches the target.

Learn how use of new developments in atomization and spray system technology leads to uniform coating thickness on pharmaceutical pills and tablets, resulting in controlled medication release.

Learn how application of the latest spray drying techniques in chemical and food processing creates controlled drop evaporation rates and thereby creates specific powder characteristics for the dried food or chemical.

Learn how careful control of particle size, density and velocity with aerosol medical sprays such as asthma inhalers can result in aerodynamic drag of liquid and solid particles for optimal deposition on the lung surface.

Some of the many specific techniques that will be covered in the course:

How droplet trajectories determine local temperatures in combustion engines and furnaces that lead to the formation of NOx and local reactions which result in the formation of pollutants.

How improvements in fuel and energy efficiency are dependent upon local air/fuel mixture ratios, which in turn depends on drop trajectories and evaporation rates.

How fine tuning spray control requires controlling the breakup mechanisms of liquid sheets and jets, measurement and control of drop size velocity and number density, evaporation rate and interaction with airflow fields and surfaces.

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