Macrosonic generator for the air-based industrial defoaming of liquids
AssigneesJuan Antonio Gallego Juarez, German Rodriguez Corral, Fausto Montoya Vitini, Victor Acosta Aparicio, Enrique Riera Franco De Sarabia, Alfonso Blanco Blanco
InventorsJuan Antonio Gallego Juárez, Germán Rodriguez Corral, Fausto Montoya Vitini, Victor Acosta Aparicio, Enrique Riera Franco De Sarabia, Alfonso Blanco Blanco
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Abstract
This invention refers to a sonic and/or ultrasonic generator for emission in air with a power capacity and certain radiation characteristics which permit the necessary acoustic levels (>170 dB ref. 2.10−4 μbar) to be obtained in a way that is safe and controlled for the mechanical breakage of high consistency bubbles constituting industrial foams.
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A macrosonic generator by air for mechanical breakage of high consistency bubbles constituting industrial foams, said macrosonic generator comprising:
- a power electroacoustic transducer comprising a transduction element, said transduction element being one of a magnetostrictive and a piezoelectric element, and extensionally vibrating so to act as an exciter of a radiator in the form of a plate;
- said radiator provided with an emitting face and a non-emitting face with each face having a discontinuous profile, where said discontinuous profile of the non-emitting face maximizes the macrosonic generator power capacity in the generation of focused acoustic fields, and minimizes radiator weight and volume;
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- an electronic generator device comprising a phase locked loop (PLL) including a voltage controlled oscillator, a four quadrant multiplier acting as a phase comparator and a low pass filter, a first control loop, a second control loop and a third control loop, said first, second and third loops being implemented by a processor, the first loop for controlling and monitoring the output power supplied to the power electroacoustic transducer for the constant maintenance of the power supplied to said power electroacoustic transducer, the second loop for controlling and monitoring the working frequency band of the power electroacoustic transducer and the third loop for monitoring and controlling the phase between the output current and voltage at the resonance frequency of the power electroacoustic transducer.
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