Influence of elbow orientation on solid particle erosion for multiphase flow
Erosive wear of equipment in hydrocarbon and mineral processing pipelines can occur under multiphase flow. The 90° elbow configuration is a common flow changing device in the pipeline network used to redirect the flow direction. This paper highlights a CFD approach to study erosion-induced damage i...
| Main Authors: | Khan, R., Ya, H.H., Pao, W., Khan, A., Zahoor, R., Ahmed, T. |
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| Format: | Article |
| Institution: | Universiti Teknologi Petronas |
| Record Id / ISBN-0: | utp-eprints.24696 / |
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Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
2020
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Erosive wear of equipment in hydrocarbon and mineral processing pipelines can occur under multiphase flow. The 90° elbow configuration is a common flow changing device in the pipeline network used to redirect the flow direction. This paper highlights a CFD approach to study erosion-induced damage in 90° elbows due to the transportation of sand particles in the carrier phase. A discrete phase modeling (DPM) technique is employed to decouple the relationship of elbow orientation and erosion-induced damage in 90° elbows. The computational geometry and simulation parameters consist of horizontal to horizontal (H�H), horizontal to vertical (H�V), and vertical to horizontal (V�H) orientated 90° elbows with 50.8 mm inner diameter and fine sand of 50 μm size entertains in a liquid phase at 5 m/s flow velocity. The high erosion zones have been located near the outlet of the 90° elbow under fine particle impact with a maximum erosion rate of 5.5 mm/year in horizontal�vertical (H�V) oriented elbow. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd 2020. |
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