Abstract:
There is provided an apparatus for atomizing a liquid by means of a gas comprising a nozzle at one end, a jacket pipe for gas contracting at said one end, a feed pipe for liquid arranged axially inside said jacket pipe and terminating therein as a constricted end, the length of both pipe ends in the axial direction being at most 10 times the inner diameter of the jacket tube. The apparatus is preferably used in the production of furnace blacks wherein the liquid hydrocarbon raw material is introduced into an atomizing stream of higher velocity and the dispersion is then separated into a reaction chamber.