Some applications of salt-water oscillator in chemical engineering teaching and process equipment design

Density Oscillators

“…Cluster states and more complex patterns are observed when more than three inner containers are held within one outer container (Miyakawa and Yamada, 2001). The oscillation of the electrical potential, which occurs when a pair of electrodes are placed in the light and heavy fluids, has also been extensively studied (Yoshikawa et al, 1989;Adamčiková, 1992;Upadhyay et al, 1992;Das and Srivastava, 1993;Srivastava, 1994;Srivastava et al, 1994;Villarreyes et al, 2000;Cervellati and Solda, 2001;Rastogi et al, 2005). The oscillation of the electrical potential, which occurs when a pair of electrodes are placed in the light and heavy fluids, has also been extensively studied (Yoshikawa et al, 1989;Adamčiková, 1992;Upadhyay et al, 1992;Das and Srivastava, 1993;Srivastava, 1994;Srivastava et al, 1994;Villarreyes et al, 2000;Cervellati and Solda, 2001;Rastogi et al, 2005).…”

Saline oscillator as a teaching experiment

“…From the fluid dynamics studies, oscillatory phenomena that are far from their respective stable equilibrium are of great interest, especially for membrane theories in biology, oceanography, meteorology and geophysics. In this context, the saline oscillator has provided innumerous elucidations related with non-linear behaviors [1][2][3], interface instability between two fluids [4], beyond transient states [5]. Practical examples of the oscillatory behaviors are linked with teaching, from chemical themes [5] and electronic topics [6], to mathematical simulations [7][8][9], which could be applied in numerical calculus.…”