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Arkhipov V.A., Basalaev S.A., Kostyushin K.V., Usanina A.S. Experimental study of the surfactant effect on the dynamics of bidispersed bubble cluster. Multiphase Systems. 2025;20(3):135–144 (in Russian).
2025. Vol. 20. Issue 3, Pp. 135–144
URL: http://mfs.uimech.org/mfs2025.3.018
DOI: 10.21662/mfs2025.3.018
Experimental study of the surfactant effect on the dynamics of bidispersed bubble cluster
V.A. Arkhipov, S.A. Basalaev, K.V. Kostyushin, A.S. Usanina🖂
National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia

Abstract

The article presents the results of an experimental study of the process of ascent of a cluster consisting of bubbles of two different sizes in a volume of liquid unlimited by walls in the presence and absence of surfactant in a liquid medium in the ranges of Reynolds numbers Re = 200 ÷ 600 and Re = 0.1 ÷ 50. The effect of the concentration of the surfactant and the cluster parameters (initial concentration, ratio of the number and diameters of bubbles in the cluster) on the qualitative picture of ascent and the velocity of the bidispersed bubble cluster is analyzed. The condition for the existence of the cluster of bidispersed bubbles is experimentally established.

Keywords

bidispersed bubble cluster,
surfactant,
qualitative picture of ascent,
cluster velocity,
experimental study

Article outline

Problem: experimental identification of the patterns of the process of unconstrained ascent of cluster of bidispersed air bubbles in the presence and absence of surfactants in the range of Reynolds numbers Re = 0.1 ÷ 600.

Methods: method of experimental study based on the visualization of the process using modern high-speed video filming techniques.

In a study was determined:

1. In distilled water (Re > 200), a bidispersed spherical bubble cluster separates into two monodispersed clusters during the ascent process at a distance h* from the place of its formation, regardless of the presence of surfactants. The key difference is in the ascent velocity of the resulting clusters: in pure liquid, the condition u1 < u2 is met, while in a surfactant solution, u1 < u2. It has been experimentally confirmed that the separation distance h* monotonically decreases with an increase in both the surfactant concentration and the dimensionless parameter d2/d1.

The dependence of the rising velocity of the bidispersed cluster on the composition of the medium and the parameters of the cluster was revealed. In distilled water (in the absence of surfactants), the cluster velocity monotonically increases with an increase in both the ratio of the number of bubbles N1/N2 and the initial volume concentration of the gas. On the contrary, the introduction of surfactant into the system leads to decrease in the ascent velocity, and this decrease increases with an increase in the concentration of the surfactant.

2. An experimental study of contact rising in glycerol (Re < 50) showed that the stable existence of the bidispersed bubble cluster is possible in two ranges of parameters: with a diameter ratio of 1.56 < d2/d1 < 1.82 and a predominance of small bubbles (N1 ≫ N2, where the proportion of large bubbles does not exceed 6%); with d2/d1 > 1.56 and a predominance of large bubbles (N1 < N2, where the proportion of small bubbles is less than 30%).

The stability of the cluster under these conditions is due to the interaction of the hydrodynamic fields of the bubbles. In contrast, during contactless ascent as well as during contact ascent with a ratio of d2/d1 > 2.13 and a proportion of large bubbles of no more than 6% the bidispersed cluster is not formed; instead, independent ascent of two monodispersed formations is observed.

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