Abstract

An upgraded droplet-size measurement method, based on laser interference particle imaging (IPI) technology, is applied to accomplish high-precision measurement of particle size and spatial distribution of gas–liquid two-phase flow in the atomization field. In this study, an improved morphological-Hough transform interference fringe location algorithm is applied to IPI measurement. The particle size of the standard particle field with a diameter of 24 µm is measured by the upgraded IPI measurement experimentally, whose absolute error and relative error are 0.14 µm and 0.58%, respectively. The atomization field of the 400 µm centrifugal nozzle under different pressures is demonstrated by direct imaging and IPI technology, where the assessment results are evaluated by SMD value and particle size distribution, and the results exhibit good agreement.

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