Skip to main content

Table 1 Overview of experimentally determined bubble burst rates, minimum, mean and maximum bubble diameters, volume of bursting bubbles and droplet production rates, mean and maximum droplet diameters, average number of droplets per bursting bubble, and volume of droplets generated per second for low and high VFR

From: Water–air transfer rates of microplastic particles through bubble bursting as a function of particle size

 

Low

High

VFR [mm3 s−1]

182

353

Air flux [ml/m2/s−1]

36.4

70.6

Burst rate [s−1]

688

1176

Dbub, min [mm]

0.48

0.32

Dbub, mean [mm]

0.81

0.76

Dbub, max [mm]

2.40

2.56

Burst volume rate

[mm3 s−1]

265

362

Droplet rate [s−1]

2092

2391

Ddrop, mean [mm]

0.42

0.48

Ddrop, max [mm]

2.46

4.15

Droplet volume rate Qd [mm3 s−1]

159

340

Droplets per bubble [-]

3.0

2.0