Estimation of Two-Phase Flow Heat Transfer in Pipes

1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Kaminsky
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Two Phase Flow ◽  
Small Diameter ◽  
Estimation Methods ◽  
Prediction Methods ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Liquid Holdup ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Flow Models ◽  
Liquid Flows

Heat transfer can be of importance in the design of multiphase petroleum flowlines. However, heat transfer data for gas-liquid flows are available only for small-diameter pipes at low pressures. Moreover, existing prediction methods are largely not suited to petroleum pipeline conditions due to implicit use of simplistic two-phase flow models. In this work heat transfer estimation methods are derived for nonboiling gas-liquid flow in pipes of high Prandtl number liquids, such as crude oil. The methods are readily evaluated for engineering applications and are applicable to all flow regimes, except those with low liquid holdup. Comparison is made with literature data. Accuracies of ±33 percent are obtained in general. The methods explicitly couple with arbitrary prediction methods for two-phase flow pressure drop and liquid holdup. This explicit coupling makes plausible the hypothesis that predictions will be robust at conditions well beyond the range of the existing experimental data.

1802 Relation between Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics of Two-Phase Flow in Small Diameter tubes

2007 ◽  
Vol 2007.3 (0) ◽  
pp. 261-262
Author(s):  
Yosuke KAGI ◽  
Masuo KAJI ◽  
Toru SAWAI ◽  
Tadanobu UEDA
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Fluid Dynamics ◽  
Two Phase Flow ◽  
Small Diameter ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Two Phase

Performance of Two-Phase Flow Models on the Prediction of Oscillatory Flow Conditions

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catalina Posada ◽  
Paulo Waltrich
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Pressure Gradient ◽  
Two Phase Flow ◽  
Percentage Error ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Liquid Holdup ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Flow Models ◽  
Absolute Percentage Error

The present investigation presents a comparative study between two-phase flow models and experimental data. Experimental data was obtained using a 42 m long, 0.05 m ID tube system. The experimental data include conditions for pressures ranging from 1.2 to 2.8 bara, superficial liquid velocities 0.02–0.3 m/s, and superficial gas velocity ranges 0.17–26 m/s. The experimental data was used to evaluate the performance of steady-state empirical and mechanistic models while estimating liquid holdup and pressure gradient under steady-state and oscillatory conditions. The purpose of this analysis is first to evaluate the accuracy of the models predicting the liquid holdup and pressure gradient under steady-state conditions. Then, after evaluating the models under state-steady conditions, the same models are used to predict the same parameters for oscillatory and periodic conditions for similar gas and liquid velocities. The transient multiphase flow simulator OLGA, which has been widely used in the oil and gas industry, was implemented to model one oscillatory case to evaluate the prediction improvement while using a transient instead of a steady-state model to predict oscillatory flows. For the model with best performance for steady-state pressure gradient prediction, the absolute percentage error is 12% for Uls = 0.02 m/s and 5% for Uls = 0.3. For oscillatory conditions, the absolute percentage error is 30% for Uls = 0.02 m/s and 4% for Uls = 0.3. OLGA results underpredict the experimental pressure gradient under oscillatory conditions with errors up to 30%. Therefore, it was possible to conclude that the models can predict the average of the oscillatory data almost as well as for steady-state conditions.

Experimental Study of Heat Transfer, Pressure Drop, and Dryout for Flow Boiling of Water in an Oil Heated Minichannel

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Levi A. Campbell ◽  
Satish Kandlikar
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Pressure Drop ◽  
Test Section ◽  
Two Phase Flow ◽  
Flow Boiling ◽  
Small Diameter ◽  
Constant Heat Flux ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Mass Fluxes

Heat transfer and pressure drop, are experimentally recorded for flow boiling water in a single 706 μm circular copper channel 158.75 mm long. Heat is supplied by heat transfer oil at specified temperatures to a helical channel in the test section. In contrast to other current experimental techniques for flow boiling in small diameter tubes, a uniform temperature boundary condition is employed rather than a constant heat flux condition. The principal results of these experiments are two-phase flow boiling heat transfer rates and an analysis of the time-dependent pressure drop signature during two-phase flow in a minichannel. The range of experiments includes mass fluxes of 43.8–3070 kg/m2s and wall temperatures of 100°C–171.2°C. In all cases the test section water inlet is subcooled to between 72.9°C and 99.6°C. The inlet pressures used are 1.1–230.5 kPa (gage).

scholarly journals Investigation of the critical heat flux in small-diameter channels

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-78
Author(s):  
Vladimir I. Belozerov ◽  
Aleksandr S. Gorbach
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Heat Exchange ◽  
Critical Heat Flux ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Two Phase Flow ◽  
Small Diameter ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Channel Size

The paper describes experimental studies into the hydrodynamics and heat exchange in a forced water flow in small-diameter channels at low pressures. The timeliness of the studies has been defined by the growing interest in small-size heat exchangers. Small-diameter channels are actively used in components of compact heat exchangers for present-day engineering development applications. The major difficulty involved in investigation of heat-transfer processes in small-diameter channels consists in the absence of common methodologies to calculate coefficients of hydraulic resistance and heat transfer in a two-phase flow. The channel size influences the heat exchange and hydrodynamics of a two-phase flow as one of the determining parameters since the existing internal scales (vapor bubble size, liquid droplet diameter, film thickness) may become commensurable with the channel diameter, this leading potentially to different flow conditions. It is evident that one cannot justifiably expect a change in the momentum and energy transfer regularities in single-phase flows as the channel size is reduced for as long as the continuum approximation remains valid. The authors have analyzed the experiments undertaken by Russian scientists to investigate the distribution of thermal-hydraulic parameters in channels with a small cross-section in the entire variation range of the flow parameters in the channel up to the critical heat flux conditions when the wall temperature increases sharply as the thermal load grows slowly. The experimental critical heat flux data obtained by Russian and foreign authors has been compared.

Dynamic Modeling of Two-Phase Gas/Liquid Flow in Pipelines

SPE Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (05) ◽  
pp. 2239-2263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amine Meziou ◽  
Zurwa Khan ◽  
Taoufik Wassar ◽  
Matthew A. Franchek ◽  
Reza Tafreshi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Thermal Model ◽  
Two Phase Flow ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Liquid Holdup ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Two Phases

Summary Presented is a reduced–order thermal fluid dynamic model for gas/liquid two–phase flow in pipelines. Specifically, a two–phase–flow thermal model is coupled with a two–phase–flow hydraulics model to estimate the gas and liquid properties at each pressure and temperature condition. The proposed thermal model estimates the heat–transfer coefficient for different flow patterns observed in two–phase flow. For distributed flows, where the two phases are well–mixed, a weight–based averaging is used to estimate the equivalent fluid thermal properties and the overall heat–transfer coefficient. Conversely, for segregated flows, where the two phases are separated by a distinct interface, the overall heat–transfer coefficient is dependent on the liquid holdup and pressure drop estimated by the fluid model. Intermittent flows are considered as a combination of distributed and segregated flow. The integrated model is developed by dividing the pipeline into segments. Equivalent fluid properties are identified for each segment to schedule the coefficients of a modal approximation of the transient single–phase–flow pipeline–distributed–parameter model to obtain dynamic pressure and flow rate, which are used to estimate the transient temperature response. The resulting model enables a computationally efficient estimation of the pipeline–mixture pressure, temperature, two–phase–flow pattern, and liquid holdup. Such a model has utility for flow–assurance studies and real–time flow–condition monitoring. A sensitivity analysis is presented to estimate the effect of model parameters on the pipeline–mixture dynamic response. The model predictions of mixture pressure and temperature are compared with an experimental data set and OLGA (2014) simulations to assess model accuracy.

Frictional Pressure Drop during Two-Phase Flow of Pure Fluids and Mixtures in Small Diameter Channels

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Del Col ◽  
Marco Azzolin ◽  
Alberto Bisetto ◽  
Stefano Bortolin
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Pressure Drop ◽  
Two Phase Flow ◽  
Small Diameter ◽  
Mass Composition ◽  
Vapor Flow ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Frictional Pressure Drop ◽  
Two Phase Heat Transfer

Abstract Two-phase flow is widely encountered in minichannels heat exchangers such as air-cooled condensers and evaporators for automotive, compact devices for electronic cooling and aluminum condenser for air-conditioning applications. In the present work, frictional pressure drop during adiabatic liquid-vapor flow is experimentally investigated inside a single 0.96 mm diameter minichannel. Tests have been run with three mixtures of R32/R1234ze(E) (23/77%, 50/50% and 75/25% by mass composition) at mass flux ranging between 200 and 600 kg m−2 s−1. Since pressure drop has a strong influence on the two-phase heat transfer, it is crucial to have reliable pressure drop prediction methods for two-phase heat transfer modeling and optimization. Therefore, with the aim of extending its validity range, a model to calculate the frictional pressure gradient during two-phase flow in small diameter channels is tested against the present two-phase pressure drop database. An assessment is also done with two low-GWP refrigerants: the halogenated olefin R1234ze(E) and the hydrocarbon R290. The present model accounts for the effect of internal surface roughness as a function of the liquid-only Reynolds number.

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