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oil droplet size

oil droplet size

oil droplet size

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Hi

i posted a message (shown below) in refrigeration and chemical engineering forums. However it has been suggested that this forum would perhaps be able to help me better in estimating droplet size.

I am trying to design a cyclone device to separate oil an refrigerant, ie a liquid and vapor mix.
I have plenty of equations for calulating cyclone size (although more are welcome) but all are a function of droplet size.
I am therefore require some way of estimating droplet size, possibly taking a likley max and min and working through both.
I know droplets are likely to join each time an impact occurs so a probability method to estimate the likely make up of droplet distrubtion would also be useful.
The oil is injected into the vapor stream through a nozzle of known size, however much oil is lost in leakage so a consistant massflow can not be used.
thank-you

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