Cavitation technologies for dispergation and homogenization

The results of tests carried out in industrial conditions are presented. They allow one to propose cavitation technologies of dispergation and homogenization for fabricating emulsions and suspensions under the action of ultrasonic, hydrodynamic, and hydroacoustic cavitation. The dispergation regimes were found for materials with various physicochemical properties, including viscous media (natural juices with pulp) and materials with a lamella structure (bentonite). Cavitation effects intensify dispergation processes and allow one to produce materials with submicronic dimension of the particles; this considerably increases the sedimentation period of the suspensions.