Automatic surface tension measurement of turbid liquids using a bubble method (e.g., pendant/captive bubble) or interfacial tension measurement f some liquid–liquid systems necessitates an image analysis scheme robust against noise. Measuring the surface tension of lung surfactant–polymer ystems using the combination of axisymmetric drop shape analysis (ADSA) and a captive bubble is such an exa...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Injected air bubbles are a well-accepted cause of stroke during cerebral angiography. We used an in vitro model to determine the frequency of occurrence of air emboli during catheter flushing using conventional hardware and techniques. METHODS Two experimental models were used in this study. The first incorporated an in-line bubble trap. Ten members of our angiography s...

Time-synchronised flow velocity, temperature, and heat flux measurements were preformed to characterise the interaction of a single rising ellipsoidal bubble with the free convection flow from a heated vertical flat surface. The heat transfer measurements from the surface were provided by a hot film heat flux sensor calibrated using a pre-calibrated microfoil heat flux sensor. Two thermocouples...

Micropore filters are used during extracorporeal circulation to prevent gaseous and solid particles from entering the patient's systemic circulation. Although these devices improve patient safety, limitations in current designs have prompted the development of a new concept in micropore filtration. A prototype of the new design was made using 40-μm filter screens and compared against four comme...

In the chemical process industry bubble columns are widely used and there is a lot of interest in the modelling of the gas-liquid flow in such equipment with the aid of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). In order to validate CFD simulations of gas-liquid flows in bubble columns one needs detailed measurement data at moderate gas fractions (i.e. up to 5 vol.%). For the validation of CFD results...

A thermodynamic modeling for the vapor–liquid equilibrium of binary systems of supercritical fluids and ionic liquids is presented. The van der Waals mixing rules and a cubic equation of state are used to evaluate the fugacity coefficient on the systems. Then, a particle swarm algorithm was used to minimize the difference between calculated and experimental bubble pressure, and calculate the in...