Growing bubbles in a slightly supersaturated liquid solution
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6/26/2013
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Review of Scientific Instruments
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We have designed and constructed an experimental system to study gas bubble growth in slightly supersaturated liquids. This is achieved by working with carbon dioxide dissolved in water, pressurized at a maximum of 1MPa and applying a small pressure drop from saturation conditions. Bubbles grow from hydrophobic cavities etched on silicon wafers, which allows us to control their number and position. Hence, the experiment can be used to investigate the interaction among bubbles growing in close proximity when the main mass transfer mechanism is diffusion and there is a limited availability of the dissolved species.
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Copyright 2013 Review of Scientific Instruments. Recommended citation: Enríquez, Oscar R., Christian Hummelink, Gert-Wim Bruggert, Detlef Lohse, Andrea Prosperetti, Devaraj van der Meer, and Chao Sun. "Growing bubbles in a slightly supersaturated liquid solution." Review of scientific instruments 84, no. 6 (2013): 065111. DOI: 10.1063/1.4810852 URL: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4810852 Reproduced in accordance with the original publisher’s licensing terms and with permission from the author(s).