A study on Atomization Process of Water/Biofuel Emulsion in Electrostatic Energy

Abstract

This investigation reports that the atomization process of Water/Biofuel Emulsion under the electrostatic energy. Biofuel is expected as carbon neutral fuel and contained the water remained in the production phase. From this point of view, making the biodiesel as emulsion can contain the large electric conductivity and be used in the electric applications. In this paper, Biofuel/Water emulsion was tested with the electrostatic energy and discussing in several different electrode distances to figure out the electrospray characteristic. As the result, the field intensity affects the spray modes of Biofuel/Water emulsion and the atomized particles were observed and discussed from the images under microphotograph to understand the electrostatic atomization characteristics.