Wesley, D.J., Toolan, D.T.W., Brittle, S.A. et al. (2 more authors) (2016) Development of an optical microscopy system for automated bubble cloud analysis. Applied Optics, 55 (22). p. 6102. ISSN 0003-6935
Abstract
Recently, the number of uses of bubbles has begun to increase dramatically, with medicine, biofuel production, and wastewater treatment just some of the industries taking advantage of bubble properties, such as high mass transfer. As a result, more and more focus is being placed on the understanding and control of bubble formation processes and there are currently numerous techniques utilized to facilitate this understanding. Acoustic bubble sizing (ABS) and laser scattering techniques are able to provide information regarding bubble size and size distribution with minimal data processing, a major advantage over current optical-based direct imaging approaches. This paper demonstrates how direct bubble-imaging methods can be improved upon to yield high levels of automation and thus data comparable to ABS and laser scattering. We also discuss the added benefits of the direct imaging approaches and how it is possible to obtain considerable additional information above and beyond that which ABS and laser scattering can supply. This work could easily be exploited by both industrial-scale operations and small-scale laboratory studies, as this straightforward and cost-effective approach is highly transferrable and intuitive to use.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Published by The Optical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 28 Sep 2016 10:26 |
Last Modified: | 09 Oct 2019 14:28 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.55.006102 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Optical Society of America |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1364/AO.55.006102 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:105312 |