scholarly journals Powder flow down a vertical pipe: the effect of air flow

2002 ◽  
Vol 459 ◽  
pp. 317-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. BERTHO ◽  
F. GIORGIUTTI-DAUPHINÉ ◽  
T. RAAFAT ◽  
E. J. HINCH ◽  
H. J. HERRMANN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Small Diameter ◽  
Stationary Flow ◽  
Momentum Conservation ◽  
Wall Friction ◽  
Particle Fraction ◽  
Friction Forces ◽  
Flow Rates ◽  
Lower Flow ◽  
Grain Flow ◽  
Grain Distribution

The dynamics of dry granular flows down a vertical glass pipe of small diameter have been studied experimentally. Simultaneous measurements of pressure profiles, air and grain flow rates and volume fractions of particles have been realized together with spatio-temporal diagrams of the grain distribution down the tube. At large grain flow rates, one observes a stationary flow characterized by high particle velocities, low particle fractions and a downflow of air resulting in an underpressure in the upper part of the pipe. A simple model assuming a free fall of the particles slowed down by air friction and taking into account finite particle fraction effects through Richardson–Zaki's law has been developed: it reproduces pressure and particle fraction variations with distance and estimates friction forces with the wall. At lower flow rates, sequences of high-density plugs separated by low-density bubbles moving down at a constant velocity are observed. The pressure is larger than outside the tube and its gradient reflects closely the weight of the grains. Writing mass and momentum conservation equations for the air and for the grains allows one to estimate the wall friction, which is less than 10% of the weight for grains with a clean smooth surface but up to 30% for grains with a rougher surface. At lower flow rates, oscillating-wave regimes resulting in large pressure fluctuations are observed and their frequency is predicted.

scholarly journals Experimental Analysis of Small Diameter Brush Seals and Comparisons With Theoretical Predictions

2018 ◽  
Vol 141 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lilas Deville ◽  
Mihaï Arghir
Keyword(s):  
Mass Flow ◽  
Small Diameter ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Friction Forces ◽  
Flow Rates ◽  
Deformable Porous Medium ◽  
Theoretical Predictions ◽  
Porosity And Permeability ◽  
Mass Flow Rates ◽  
Brush Seals

The paper presents the experimental results obtained for brush seals of 38 mm diameter operating with air at pressure differences up to 7 bars and rotation frequencies up to 500 Hz. The seals had bristles of 70 μm diameter, made of Haynes 25. Seals with two radial interferences (0 and 100 μm) between the brush and the rotor were tested. The presented running in procedure underlines the influence of the initial wear on the brush temperatures. The test results consisted of leakage mass flow rates. The temperatures of a limited number of points on the brush and on the rotor were also recorded. The results confirmed the important impact of the radial interference on the leakage. The test data were further confronted with theoretical predictions obtained with an original model. The model considers the brush as a deformable porous medium. Its local porosity and permeability are obtained from a fluid–structure interaction between the bristle pack and the leakage flow. The comparisons showed nearly close values of the mass flow rates. The differences between experimental and theoretical predictions are considered to be due to an underestimation of the porosity because the model neglects the friction forces between bristles and between the bristles and the rotor.

The Control of Iron Bacterial Plugging of a Well by Tyndallization Using Hot Water Recycling

1986 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. Cullimore ◽  
N. Mansuy
Keyword(s):  
Direct Injection ◽  
Small Diameter ◽  
Hot Water ◽  
Water Recycling ◽  
Water Heater ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
Flow Rates ◽  
Water Well ◽  
Flow Loss ◽  
The Town

Abstract A small diameter water well drilled in 1977 in the Town of Bulyea, Saskatchewan generated such a rapid plugging (biofouling) that by 1979 the flow rate was reduced by 59%. Heavy growths of non-specific iron bacteria were found in the water and biofouling projected to be the principal cause of the flow loss. Tyndallization (repeated pasteurizations) treatment was applied using a hot water recycling system installed above the well head. Using a displacement passive gravity direct injection of hot water at 82°C from a water heater into the well, a sequential elevation of water column temperatures occurred until bio-film dispersion occurred (pasteurization) at 45°C+. A recovery to original flow specifications was repeatedly obtained at time intervals ranging from 6 to 403 days. Between treatments, a recurrence of biofouling was noted with flow reductions of 0.06 – 0.07 1/min/day frequently being noted. The rate of plugging appeared to be affected by the previous sequence of pasteurization treatments. Tyndallization was found to satisfactorily control iron bacterial biofouling and maintain flow rates.

Comparison of PIR to PIPESAFE-Based 1% Lethality Zones for Natural Gas Pipelines

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Tomic ◽  
Shahani Kariyawasam
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Small Diameter ◽  
Gas Pipeline ◽  
Accurate Estimation ◽  
Simple Relationship ◽  
Gas Pipelines ◽  
Friction Forces ◽  
Natural Gas Pipelines ◽  
Decay Factor ◽  
Outflow Rate

A lethality zone due to an ignited natural gas release is often used to characterize the consequences of a pipeline rupture. A 1% lethality zone defines a zone where the lethality to a human is greater than or equal to 1%. The boundary of the zone is defined by the distance (from the point of rupture) at which the probability of lethality is 1%. Currently in the gas pipeline industry, the most detailed and validated method for calculating this zone is embodied in the PIPESAFE software. PIPESAFE is a software tool developed by a joint industry group for undertaking quantitative risk assessments of natural gas pipelines. PIPESAFE consequence models have been verified in laboratory experiments, full scale tests, and actual failures, and have been extensively used over the past 10–15 years for quantitative risk calculations. The primary advantage of using PIPESAFE is it allows for accurate estimation of the likelihood of lethality inside the impacted zone (i.e. receptors such as structures closer to the failure are subject to appropriately higher lethality percentages). Potential Impact Radius (PIR) is defined as the zone in which the extent of property damage and serious or fatal injury would be expected to be significant. It corresponds to the 1% lethality zone for a natural gas pipeline of a certain diameter and pressure when thermal radiation and exposure are taken into account. PIR is one of the two methods used to identify HCAs in US (49 CFR 192.903). Since PIR is a widely used parameter and given that it can be interpreted to delineate a 1% lethality zone, it is important to understand how PIR compares to the more accurate estimation of the lethality zones for different diameters and operating pressures. In previous internal studies, it was found that PIR, when compared to the more detailed measures of the 1% lethality zone, could be highly conservative. This conservatism could be beneficial from a safety perspective, however it is adding additional costs and reducing the efficiency of the integrity management process. Therefore, the goal of this study is to determine when PIR is overly conservative and to determine a way to address this conservatism. In order to assess its accuracy, PIR was compared to a more accurate measure of the 1% lethality zone, calculated by PIPESAFE, for a range of different operating pressures and line diameters. Upon comparison of the distances calculated through the application of PIR and PIPESAFE, it was observed that for large diameters pipelines the distances calculated by PIR are slightly conservative, and that this conservativeness increases exponentially for smaller diameter lines. The explanation for the conservatism of the PIR for small diameter pipelines is the higher wall friction forces per volume transported in smaller diameter lines. When these higher friction forces are not accounted for it leads to overestimation of the effective outflow rate (a product of the initial flow rate and the decay factor) which subsequently leads to the overestimation of the impact radius. Since the effective outflow rate is a function of both line pressure and diameter, a simple relationship is proposed to make the decay factor a function of these two variables to correct the excess conservatism for small diameter pipelines.

Study on the effect of pore-scale heterogeneity and flow rate during repetitive two-phase fluid flow in microfluidic porous media

2021 ◽  
pp. petgeo2020-062
Author(s):  
Jingtao Zhang ◽  
Haipeng Zhang ◽  
Donghee Lee ◽  
Sangjin Ryu ◽  
Seunghee Kim
Keyword(s):  
Porous Media ◽  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Sweep Efficiency ◽  
Residual Saturation ◽  
Flow Rates ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Lower Flow ◽  
Supplementary Material ◽  
Lower Flow Rate

Various energy recovery, storage, conversion, and environmental operations may involve repetitive fluid injection and, thus, cyclic drainage-imbibition processes. We conducted an experimental study for which polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-based micromodels were fabricated with three different levels of pore-space heterogeneity (coefficient of variation, where COV = 0, 0.25, and 0.5) to represent consolidated and/or partially consolidated sandstones. A total of ten injection-withdrawal cycles were applied to each micromodel at two different flow rates (0.01 and 0.1 mL/min). The experimental results were analyzed in terms of flow morphology, sweep efficiency, residual saturation, the connection of fluids, and the pressure gradient. The pattern of the invasion and displacement of nonwetting fluid converged more readily in the homogeneous model (COV = 0) as the repetitive drainage-imbibition process continued. The overall sweep efficiency converged between 0.4 and 0.6 at all tested flow rates, regardless of different flow rates and COV in this study. In contrast, the effective sweep efficiency was observed to increase with higher COV at the lower flow rate, while that trend became the opposite at the higher flow rate. Similarly, the residual saturation of the nonwetting fluid was largest at COV = 0 for the lower flow rate, but it was the opposite for the higher flow rate case. However, the Minkowski functionals for the boundary length and connectedness of the nonwetting fluid remained quite constant during repetitive fluid flow. Implications of the study results for porous media-compressed air energy storage (PM-CAES) are discussed as a complementary analysis at the end of this manuscript.Supplementary material: Figures S1 and S2 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5276814.Thematic collection: This article is part of the Energy Geoscience Series collection available at: https://www.lyellcollection.org/cc/energy-geoscience-series

scholarly journals Post-Operative Flow-Volume Loops

1977 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Morton ◽  
P. Hansen ◽  
A. B. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Flow Volume ◽  
Lung Volumes ◽  
Flow Rates ◽  
Lower Flow

A study of flow-volume curves pre- and post-operatively demonstrated a marked difference between bronchitic and non-bronchitic patients. All bronchitic patients showed lower flow rates at low lung volumes post-operatively, when compared with their pre-operative values. Non-bronchitic patients all had higher flow rates for the same comparison.

scholarly journals Energy considerations in accelerating rapid shear granular flows

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. P. Pudasaini ◽  
B. Domnik
Keyword(s):  
Total Energy ◽  
Frictional Resistance ◽  
Stationary Flow ◽  
Momentum Conservation ◽  
Stationary Flows ◽  
Surface Gradient ◽  
Bulk Motion ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
Friction Energy ◽  
Gravity Acceleration

Abstract. We present a complete expression for the total energy associated with a rapid frictional granular shear flow down an inclined surface. This expression reduces to the often used energy for a non-accelerating flow of an isotropic, ideal fluid in a horizontal channel, or to the energy for a vertically falling mass. We utilize thickness-averaged mass and momentum conservation laws written in a slope-defined coordinate system. Both the enhanced gravity and friction are taken into account in addition to the bulk motion and deformation. The total energy of the flow at a given spatial position and time is defined as the sum of four energy components: the kinetic energy, gravity, pressure and the friction energy. Total energy is conserved for stationary flow, but for non-stationary flow the non-conservative force induced by the free-surface gradient means that energy is not conserved. Simulations and experimental results are used to sketch the total energy of non-stationary flows. Comparison between the total energy and the sum of the kinetic and pressure energy shows that the contribution due to gravity acceleration and frictional resistance can be of the same order of magnitude, and that the geometric deformation plays an important role in the total energy budget of the cascading mass. Relative importance of the different constituents in the total energy expression is explored. We also introduce an extended Froude number that takes into account the apparent potential energy induced by gravity and pressure.

scholarly journals The Effect of Variable Geometry on the Operating Range and Surge Margin of a Centrifugal Compressor

1976 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Whitfield ◽  
F. J. Wallace ◽  
R. C. Atkey
Keyword(s):  
Centrifugal Compressor ◽  
Peak Pressure ◽  
Pressure Ratio ◽  
Variable Geometry ◽  
Vaneless Diffuser ◽  
Flow Rates ◽  
Lower Flow ◽  
Operating Range ◽  
Surge Margin ◽  
Isentropic Efficiency

Two variable geometry techniques have been applied to a small turbocharger compressor, with the objective of trying to move the peak pressure ratio operating point to lower flow rates, thereby yielding a broad flow range map. Variable prewhirl guide vanes and variable vaneless diffuser passage height have been studied separately. The results obtained with both techniques are compared and the relative merits and demerits with respect to improved flow range and isentropic efficiency penalties are considered.

Unsteady Flows Inside the Piping Systems of Internal Combustion Engines: 1-D Simulation Modeling and Experimental Validation

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Chalet ◽  
Pascal Chesse ◽  
Michel Violleau
Keyword(s):  
Friction Factor ◽  
Internal Combustion Engines ◽  
Pipe Wall ◽  
Stationary Flow ◽  
Internal Combustion ◽  
Wall Friction ◽  
Pressure Waves ◽  
Combustion Engines ◽  
Simulation Code ◽  
Sudden Contraction

The main difficulty for the one-dimensional simulation of pressure waves in the inlet and exhaust systems of Internal Combustion Engines consists in the modeling of singularities (area changes, bends, junctions, etc.). The models presented in the literature are based on the behavior of the singularity in steady flow. However the pressure losses due to the wave propagation are different from those obtained in stationary flow. The authors’ objective is to propose models with a better precision based on the non steady study of the singularities which can be found in Internal Combustion Engines. Specifically, this paper presents the investigation of the pipe wall friction factor and the sudden contraction area. The first step consists in studying the behavior of pressure waves through pipes with the Fluent CFD code. Next, a model parameterized with the Reynolds number is proposed for the pipe wall friction factor while another one with the Mach number is proposed for the sudden contraction area. These models are included in a 1-D simulation code. Finally, in order to evaluate the accuracy of the simulation program, the models are compared with experimental data. The results show a satisfactory agreement between model predictions and experimental measurements.

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