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Jet Stream Atomization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

L. O. Roth
Affiliation:
Agricultural Engineering Department, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
J. G. Porterfield
Affiliation:
Agricultural Engineering Department, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
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Abstract

The atomization of jet streams from circular orifices, 279, 483, and 1016 microns in diameter, was measured under operating pressures less than 5 psi. The jet streams disintegrated into uniform large drops approximately twice the diameter of the jet orifice, and small drops making up less than 1% of the liquid volume from the small jet. About 80% of the spray from a jet discharging horizontally was deposited in a band 2 inches wide. The distribution pattern of horizontal jet streams positioned on a 2 inch spacing was improved by angling the jet streams 10–15° from the direction of travel.

Type
Research Article
Information
Weeds , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , October 1965 , pp. 326 - 328
Copyright
Copyright © 1965 Weed Science Society of America 

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