Atomization is common practice to inject the fuel into the combustor (or premixer) through a nozzle, which atomizes the fuel. That is, the continuous stream of fuel is broken up into a mist of tiny droplets. There are many types of nozzles, some of which rely on very high feed pressures to atomize the fuel, and some of which rely on assistance from steam and air to effect good atomization. Generally, the finer the spray produced by the nozzle the better the combustion process.
An atomizer is a device for atomization. The common usage for "atomizer" is the spray nozzle of perfume[1] (http://www.bartleby.com/61/37/A0503700.html).
Atomization is also used in manufacturing to produce fine powders by spraying molten or dissolved material through an atomizer and solidifying the droplets.
Omega Atomizers is evaluating the merits of a straight bore F800 nozzle.
Spindles in atomizer drive systems can become unusable when bearing or coupling dimensions and surfaces are damaged or the spindle is bent.
Omega Atomizers delivered a large, double row, thirty-two nozzle atomizer wheel in titanium where the original stainless steel could not survive aggressive corrosion attack produced by high chloride content in the blended coal fuel.
A further problem inherent with the structures used to manufacture known atomizers, and the manufacturing processes, is the inability to control the dimensions of the component elements of the atomizer precisely enough to allow the development of design rules to control the trajectory and distribution of the spray output.
Another advantage of the present invention is to provide an atomizer array which because of its fabrication method permits easy modification of the functional constituents of the atomizers, by means of a set of design rules, to create the spray pattern characteristics in each atomizer that are best suited to a specific application.
In a first embodiment of the invention, the laminated array of pressure swirl atomizers produces atomized liquid droplets 55 of liquid coolant 56 which are sprayed upon the surface of the electronic components 54 to be cooled and are contained completely within the sealed, fluid-tight housing 50.
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