310 Development of Pipe-Wall-Thinning Prediction by Liquid Droplet Impingement Erosion Considering Influence of Liquid Film

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014.51 (0) ◽  
pp. _310-1_-_310-2_
Author(s):  
Keitaro Wada ◽  
Kengo Saito ◽  
Takayuki Yamagata ◽  
Nobuyuki Fujisawa
Author(s):  
Toshihiko Shakouchi ◽  
Takayuki Suzuki ◽  
Hideki Yuya ◽  
Masaki Naruse ◽  
Koichi Tsujimoto ◽  
...  

In a piping system of power plant, pipe wall thinning by Flow Accelerated Corrosion, FAC, Liquid Droplet Impingement Erosion, LDI, and Cavitation Erosion, C/E, are very serious problems because they give a damage and lead to the destructtion of the piping system[1]–[6]. In this study, the pipe wall thinning by FAC in the downstream of orifice nozzle, flow meter, is examined. Namely, the characteristics of FAC, generation mechanism, and prediction of the thinning and the reduction are made clear by experimental analysis. As a results, it was made clear that (1) the thinning is occurred mainly according to the size of the pressure fluctuation p′ on the pipe wall and the thinning can be estimated by it, and (2) the suppression of p′ can be realized by replacing the orifice to a taper shaped one having an angle to the upstream.


2013 ◽  
Vol 265 ◽  
pp. 909-917 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nobuyuki Fujisawa ◽  
Takayuki Yamagata ◽  
Kengo Saito ◽  
Kanto Hayashi

Author(s):  
Ryo Morita ◽  
Yuta Uchiyama

Liquid droplet impingement erosion (LDI) is defined as an erosion phenomenon caused by high-speed droplet attack in a wet steam flow. Pipe wall thinning due to LDI is sometimes observed in a steam piping system of a power plant. In this study, for more realistic LDI evaluation in the power plant, we conducted LDI experiments in wet steam flow with steam apparatus, and tried to develop a new thinning rate prediction model (LDI model). High speed wet steam flow simulating the actual plant condition was employed in the experiments. As a result, the cushioning effect of liquid film on a material surface was observed and was incorporated into LDI model as a empirical equation with fluid parameter.


2013 ◽  
Vol 264 ◽  
pp. 195-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Naitoh ◽  
H. Okada ◽  
S. Uchida ◽  
H. Yugo ◽  
S. Koshizuka

2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hirotoshi Sasaki ◽  
Yuka Iga

This study explains why the deep erosion pits are formed in liquid droplet impingement erosion even though the droplets uniformly impinge on the entire material surface. Liquid droplet impingement erosion occurs in fluid machinery on which droplets impinge at high speed. In the process of erosion, the material surface becomes completely roughened by erosion pits. In addition, most material surface is not completely smooth and has some degree of initial roughness from manufacturing and processing and so on. In this study, to consider the influence of the roughness on the material surface under droplet impingement, a numerical analysis of droplets impinging on the material surface with a single wedge and a single bump was conducted with changing offsets between the droplet impingement centers and the roughness centers on each a wedge bottom and a bump top. As results, two mechanisms are predicted from the present numerical results: the erosion rate accelerates and transitions from the incubation stage to the acceleration stage once roughness occurs on the material surface; the other is that deep erosion pits are formed even in the case of liquid droplets impinging uniformly on the entire material surface.


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