Distribution of the velocity profiles of the liquid phase in a gas-liquid flow with small gas contents

1976 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 862-864 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. P. Burdukov ◽  
B. K. Koz'menko ◽  
V. E. Nakoryakov
2008 ◽  
Vol 47 (12) ◽  
pp. 2275-2280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tirupati Reddy Keshav ◽  
P. Somaraju ◽  
K. Kalyan ◽  
A.K. Saroha ◽  
K.D.P. Nigam

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-131
Author(s):  
O. P. Klenov ◽  
A. S. Noskov

The work was aimed at studying the behavior of the two-phase gas-liquid flow at the inlet pipe of a catalytic reactor. Apart from the classical approach using literature flow diagrams, methods of computational hydrodynamics were used for 3D simulation of the space propagation of phases in the pipeline. The results obtained demonstrated non-uniform distribution of the liquid phase through the outlet section of the pipeline and the time-unsteady mass consumption of the liquid phase. The maximal peak consumptions were ca. 3 times as high as the average values. With the data on the flow diagrams, the CFD simulation demonstrated that variations in the gas consumption within the range under study do not cause changes in the behavior of the two-phase flow but an increase in the gas consumption results in smoothening of the non-uniform distribution of the liquid phase at the outlet pipe. The data on the flow behavior are necessary for designing catalytic reactors to provide uniform propagation of the two-phase flow over the catalyst bed, for example, hydrotreatment reactors used in refineries.


Author(s):  
Liping Pang ◽  
Shangmin Li ◽  
Hu Yuan ◽  
Liqiang Duan

Abstract When the supercritical boiler is working at low load during flexible operation, the uneven distribution of the gas-liquid flow at the intermediate header may affect the safety of the water-cooled wall at the vertical parallel panels. In order to improve the uniformity of gas-liquid flow distribution in the water-cooled wall of intermediate header and study the internal flow mechanism, a flute inside the header is applied with parallel vertical parallel channels and experiments under different operating conditions are conducted to verify the effectiveness of this geometrical structure. The flow pattern in the experiment belongs to stratified and wavy flow. Computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulation is conducted in order to investigate two-phase flow distribution behavior inside a flute header. It was found that the radial gas phase distribution in the flute tube shows a symmetrical relationship, and there are two vortexes in opposite directions. With the increasing distance from the inlet, the uniformity of the gas phase distribution becomes even. The gravity is greater than the drag force, which has effect on the two-phase flow distribution. The gas phase velocity has been improved inside flute section and liquid phase flow has more even flow distribution along annular section. It makes liquid phase sent to far end of flute header. That benefits two-phase flow distribution along 10 parallel channels equally.


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