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Recent Advances in the Development and Application of Power Plate Transducers in Dense Gas Extraction and Aerosol Agglomeration Processes

ultrasonic processes
power ultrasound
mass transport
dense gas extraction
carbon dioxide
acoustic agglomeration
nuclear safety
severe accident
source term mitigation
E. Riera, A. Cardoni, J.A. Gallego-Juárez, V.M. Acosta, A. Blanco, G. Rodríguez, M. Blasco, L.E. Herranz
Physics Procedia. Volume 63, 2015, Pages 67–72. 43rd Annual UIA Symposium 23—25 April 2014 CSIC Madrid, Spain. Edited by Margaret Lucas and Enrique Riera.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phpro.2015.03.011

Power ultrasound (PU) is an emerging, innovative, energy saving and environmental friendly technology that is generating a great interest in sectors such as food and pharmaceutical industries, green chemistry, environmental pollution, and other processes, where sustainable and energy efficient methods are required to improve and/or produce specific effects. Two typical effects of PU are the enhancement of mass transfer in gases and liquids, and the induction of particle agglomeration in aerosols. These effects are activated by a variety of mechanisms associated to the nonlinear propagation of high amplitude ultrasonic waves such as diffusion, agitation, entrainment, turbulence, etc. During the last years a great effort has been jointly made by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the company Pusonics towards introducing novel processes into the market based on airborne ultrasonic plate transducers. This technology was specifically developed for the treatment of gas and multiphasic media characterized by low specific acoustic impedance and high acoustic absorption. Different strategies have been developed to mitigate the effects of the nonlinear dynamic behavior of such ultrasonic piezoelectric transducers in order to enhance and stabilize their response at operational power conditions. This work deals with the latter advances in the mitigation of nonlinear problems found in power transducers; besides it describes two applications assisted by ultrasound developed at semi-industrial and laboratory scales and consisting in extraction via dense gases and particle agglomeration. Dense Gas Extraction (DGE) assisted by PU is a new process with a potential to enhance the extraction kinetics with supercritical CO2. Acoustic agglomeration of fine aerosol particles has a great potential for the treatment of air pollution problems generated by particulate materials. Experimental and numerical results in both processes will be shown and discussed.

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the projects DPI2009-14549-C04-01 and DPI2012-37466-C03-01 funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and the EU-PASSAM project 323217 (FP7-FISSION-2012).

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