Functional relationships for coalescence rate dependence on drop size and hold-up were derived via the collision rates and coalescence efficiency. Experiments in an agitated vessel indicated the coalescence rate to be controlled by the viscous flow regime and, per unit drop concentrations, to be proportional to the third power of the sum of the diameters of the two coalescing drops. By combining the experimentally known coalescence rate dependence on drop diameter with the independently determined dependence of the latter on the dispersed phase hold up, the breakup rate was found to depend on d2.0.
On a etabli des relations fonctionnelles dans le cas de la dependance qu'a la vitesse de coalescence des dimensions et de la retention des gouttes; on a utilise a cette fin les vitesses de collision et lefficacite de la coalescence. Les experiences faites dans un recipient soumis a lagitation ont indique que la vitesse de coalescence etait regie par le regime decoulement visqueux et qu'elle etait proportionnelle, par les concentrations unitaires des gouttes, a la troisieme puissance de la somme des diametres des deux gouttes coalescentes. En coinbinant la dependance du diametre des gouttes qu'a la vitesse de coalescence, laquelle est connue experimentalement, avec la dependance (determinee independamment) de celui-ci de la retention de la phase dispersee, on a trouve que la vitesse de rupture dependait de d2.0.
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