The major nozzle manufacturers offer a staggering array of atomizer designs, ratings, materials and configurations [upwards of 20,000 individual listings per company].

Even if each nozzle were tested at only a few of the most common operating pressures, the amount of testing required for even a modest degree of documentation is overwhelming. It is little wonder then, that nozzle companies will often supply customers limited or estimated performance information for their nozzles. These estimates may be the result of calculations using generalized relationships or be extrapolated from some limited set of actual test data. It is not uncommon to discover that the reference data used in these extrapolations can be decades old and produced by instruments of relatively crude resolution and accuracy compared to those in use today. Most often, the tests are performed with the atomizers spraying water under standard environmental conditions at modest operating pressures.

For critical applications, this type of performance information is just not sufficient to reliably specify an atomizer or to ensure that the selected atomizer will actually perform as expected.

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