Affiliation:
1. Department of Mechanical Science and Technology, Gunma University, 1-5-1 Tenjin-cho, Kiryu 376-8515, Gunma, Japan
Abstract
In this paper, we investigated the behaviors of bubbles entrained in a film coating during spray coating. Air bubbles that remain in a film coating after diluent evaporation cause coating defects called bubbling defects, including fish-eye and crater defects. In this study, the visualization of a film coating revealed that smaller bubbles in the film shrank slowly and disappeared, while larger bubbles remained. These remaining bubbles grew during the heating process for the drying of the film coating. The shrinking phenomenon was explained using bubble dynamics based on the Young–Laplace equation of a bubble’s inner pressure and Henry’s law for bubble gas dissolution into the film coating. This shrinking model is often used in studies on microbubble dynamics. The results suggested the importance of avoiding the entrainment of large bubbles during the spraying process and enhancing the release of air bubbles from the film coating’s surface through the appropriate usage of defoaming agents.
Subject
Materials Chemistry,Surfaces, Coatings and Films,Surfaces and Interfaces
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