Full Multi-Port Characterization of a Circular Orifice-Plate

Author(s):  
Stefan Sack ◽  
Mats Åbom
Author(s):  
Mari´a V. Parra ◽  
Luis Go´mez ◽  
Ram S. Mohan ◽  
Ovadia Shoham ◽  
Gene Kouba ◽  
...  

An experimental study of the characterization of oil-water dispersions/emulsions flowing through an orifice plate was carried out in the Dispersion Characterization Rig® (DCR), a state-of-the-art facility for studying the separation process of dispersions/emulsions. In this study, experiments with distilled water and mineral oil at different choke pressures, velocities, and different orifice sizes were conducted in order to find the phase-inversion zone and observe how the separation profile is affected by these variables. Bulk flow kinetic energy and water cut, are plotted against the pressure drop in the orifice plate to find the inversion point. Image processing technique is used to measure the coalescing and sedimenting profiles with respect to time. Results indicate a good agreement between the two methods used to find where phase inversion occurs and that this is affected by velocities, choke pressure and orifice plate size; also that emulsions become more stable when smaller size of orifice plates are used, as expected.


Author(s):  
S. M. Muztaba Salim ◽  
Franck C. G. A. Nicolleau ◽  
Stephen B. M. Beck ◽  
Andrzej F. Nowakowski

An experimental study of turbulence behind a fractal orifice plate, a variant of classical circular orifice plate, was conducted in a circular wind tunnel. Four fractal orifice plates with iteration levels from zero to three in combination with a classical circular orifice plate, each with equal flow area, were used in the study. Of the two main objectives, the first one was to test the superiority of the proposed fractal orifice plate against the classical one and the second one was to investigate the fractal orifice effect on the flow properties. Across the fractal orifice plate, a decrease in the pressure drop and an increase in the flow mixing is observed making it much more efficient than the classical orifice plate. It was suggested that at each fractal iteration, the added edge sharpness generated finer flow structures and these flow structures were eventually responsible for the improved efficiency.


2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deyang Hou ◽  
Yiqun Huang ◽  
Ming Huo ◽  
Way Lee Cheng ◽  
Xuan Feng ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 229-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Behrouz Ebrahimi ◽  
Guoliang He ◽  
Yingjie Tang ◽  
Matthew Franchek ◽  
Dong Liu ◽  
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Author(s):  
B. L. Soloff ◽  
T. A. Rado

Mycobacteriophage R1 was originally isolated from a lysogenic culture of M. butyricum. The virus was propagated on a leucine-requiring derivative of M. smegmatis, 607 leu−, isolated by nitrosoguanidine mutagenesis of typestrain ATCC 607. Growth was accomplished in a minimal medium containing glycerol and glucose as carbon source and enriched by the addition of 80 μg/ ml L-leucine. Bacteria in early logarithmic growth phase were infected with virus at a multiplicity of 5, and incubated with aeration for 8 hours. The partially lysed suspension was diluted 1:10 in growth medium and incubated for a further 8 hours. This permitted stationary phase cells to re-enter logarithmic growth and resulted in complete lysis of the culture.


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