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High Throughput Analysis of Liquid Droplet Impacts
Published on: March 6, 2020
Numerical Analysis on Piezoelectrically Driven Jet Dispensing Mechanism for Nanoliter Droplet of High Viscosity
Young-Bog Ham1, Byeung-Cheol An1, Mojiz Abbas Trimzi1
1Plant System and Machinery, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, KS015, Korea.
Abstract:
Various research on a dispenser head applied with the technology of piezoelectric ceramics which has high response, force generation and resolution have been actively conducted. A piezoelectric dispenser head for functional high viscous liquid generates micro droplets utilizing a different mechanism with conventional valves. This mechanism makes it difficult to calculate the pressure build-up and flow quantity. Because of this difficulty, proper displacement of a tappet cannot be selected and the displacement of the piezoelectric ceramic is being used with excessive amplification. To address these issues, a piezo dispenser head has been modeled to numerically analyze this mechanism. The mechanism has been simulated to calculate the pressure build-up and flow quantity. In addition, the load on the tappet was calculated, and the appropriate displacement of the tappet was confirmed. In this study, we have succeeded in numerically analyzing the mechanism of the piezoelectric dispenser head and we confirmed that the displacement of the appropriate tappet is about 200 μm; at this time the load on the tappet is about 3.7 N and the droplet volume is about 19.89 nL.
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