{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Interactive acoustic design of a sandwich type sono-microreactor \n", "\n", "This small demonstration shows the intuition behind a proper acoustic design of sono-microreactors.\n", "Efficient power ultrasound in microreactors has been addressed within MAPSYN European project.\n", "[](http://mapsyn.eu)\n", " \n", " Author: Francisco José Navarro-Brull\n", " Supplementary information: Guidelines for the design of efficient sono-microreactors" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# Langevin's transducer" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Prestressed sandwich transducers, or Langevin's transducers, are frequently applied in the high-power-ultrasound manufacturing industry as narrow-band piezoelectric transducers. Their basic structure consists of one or more pairs of piezoceramic rings, enclosed by metal endings and mechanically compressed by a central bolt. This half-wave resonant structure vibrates in its longitudinal or axial direction. A representation of the most common Langevin's kind of transducer ---often called symmetrical transducer--- is shown in here:" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "
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"Half-wave transducer with same material endings and cross-section areas showing its displacement amplitude ($u$) and mechanical stress ($T$) curves\n",
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"Representation of the assembly constituting the Teflon-stacked microreactor proposed in the literature (Kuhn et al., 2011)\n",
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