EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF THE ELECTRIZATION CURRENTS FOR DIELECTRIC LIQUIDS IN A CYLINDRICAL PIPE

Experiments were performed on electrization of dielectric liquids duri ng their laminar flow in cylindrical metal pipes. It was found that th e ratio of theoretically calculated and experimental electrization cur rents is close to unity. The experimental data were used to evaluate t he rate constant of electrochemical reaction of white spirit; this con stant proved to be rather large. Therefore, the relaxation length for the electrization current depends only on the Debye number and the Pec let number but does not depend on the rate of the electrochemical reac tion on the pipe wall.