Dear Sally,
I have a project where we are trying to clean steel cylinders passing
by on a conveyor. If the part is flooded with cleaning solution can
transducers be designed to dislodge very small particals from the ID
surface? These parts are coming from a grinding line that produces fine
steel chips and wheel material that gets into the ID of these parts.
Mike
Dear Mike,
What you are describing is not just possible, it is a product - but
not in the way you are thinking. The product is a cylindrical ultrasonic
wire and strip cleaner. It consists of a tube, with ultrasonic
transducer elements bonded to the outside. The inside is flooded, and
wire or strips of material are cleaned as they pass through the tube.
However, what you want to do will not work, because the transducers
need to be permanently bonded to the outside of the tube. Otherwise, you
cannot get good transmission, and nothing will happen inside the tube,
to say nothing of damaging the transducers. The best you can do in your
situation, if the parts must stay on the conveyor, is to have the
conveyor dip down into a tank to flood the parts and clean them.
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