Availability Ratio for Performance of Pipeline Components in Two-Phase Flow

1978 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 350-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. F. Harrison ◽  
R. B. Dean

A new method is presented which uses the steady flow availability function to analyze the efficiency with which energy can be transmitted in a pipeline. It is suggested that the availability approach can be used to compare the performance of all types of pipeline component such as bends, diffusers, etc., and their effect on the power available at the power turbine.

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (19) ◽  
pp. 5697
Author(s):  
Chang Sun ◽  
Shihong Yue ◽  
Qi Li ◽  
Huaxiang Wang

Component fraction (CF) is one of the most important parameters in multiple-phase flow. Due to the complexity of the solid–liquid two-phase flow, the CF estimation remains unsolved both in scientific research and industrial application for a long time. Electrical resistance tomography (ERT) is an advanced type of conductivity detection technique due to its low-cost, fast-response, non-invasive, and non-radiation characteristics. However, when the existing ERT method is used to measure the CF value in solid–liquid two-phase flow in dredging engineering, there are at least three problems: (1) the dependence of reference distribution whose CF value is zero; (2) the size of the detected objects may be too small to be found by ERT; and (3) there is no efficient way to estimate the effect of artifacts in ERT. In this paper, we proposed a method based on the clustering technique, where a fast-fuzzy clustering algorithm is used to partition the ERT image to three clusters that respond to liquid, solid phases, and their mixtures and artifacts, respectively. The clustering algorithm does not need any reference distribution in the CF estimation. In the case of small solid objects or artifacts, the CF value remains effectively computed by prior information. To validate the new method, a group of typical CF estimations in dredging engineering were implemented. Results show that the new method can effectively overcome the limitations of the existing method, and can provide a practical and more accurate way for CF estimation.


2013 ◽  
Vol 816-817 ◽  
pp. 502-505
Author(s):  
Li De Fang ◽  
Yao Zhang ◽  
Wan Ling Zhang ◽  
Qing He ◽  
Yu Jiao Liang

This paper has propose a new method (acoustic emission) to distinguish the pattern of gas-liquid two-phase flow in the horizontal pipe. The signals which got from the probe when multiphase flow pattern changes in the pipe and the four probe installed on the different position. Through the analysis of time domination, energy of wavelet, collected the signal features and shows there has a significant differences among the three typical flow patterns (bubbly flow, stratified flow, annular flow). Energy of wavelet can clearly represents the signal strength. This paper found that the acoustic emission as a new method to distinguish flow patterns have good effect can as a new technology for the study of gas-liquid two-phase.


2009 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 1571-1577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xia Li ◽  
Zhiyao Huang ◽  
Baoliang Wang ◽  
Haiqing Li

Author(s):  
H. Zimmermann ◽  
K. H. Wolff

Three important subjects of the physics of air systems have been chosen, Part 1: Labyrinth Seals Part 2: Rotating Holes and Two Phase Flow as in these fields many new papers, partly controversial, are available. A new method of correlating the throughflow for labyrinth seals is generated, it covers the most important parameters and is based on several sources out of the literature. Recommendations for the necessary further research are added. It is concluded that much more effort is required in order to achieve progress against the literature partly consisting of more than 40-year-old books and not comprehensive enough for computerized engineering.


2005 ◽  
Vol 127 (9) ◽  
pp. 1057-1061 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yumin Xiao ◽  
R. S. Amano ◽  
Timin Cai ◽  
Jiang Li

Use of aluminized composite solid propellants and submerged nozzles are common in solid rocket motors (SRM). Due to the generation of slag, which injects into a combusted gas flow, a two-phase flow pattern is one of the main flow characteristics that need to be investigated in SRM. Validation of two-phase flow modeling in a solid rocket motor combustion chamber is the focus of this research. The particles’ boundary conditions constrain their trajectories, which affect both the two-phase flow calculations, and the evaluation of the slag accumulation. A harsh operation environment in the SRM with high temperatures and high pressure makes the measurement of the internal flow field quite difficult. The open literature includes only a few sets of experimental data that can be used to validate theoretical analyses and numerical calculations for the two-phase flow in a SRM. Therefore, mathematical models that calculate the trajectories of particles may reach different conclusions mainly because of the boundary conditions. A new method to determine the particle velocities on the solid propellant surface is developed in this study, which is based on the x-ray real-time radiography (RTR) technique, and is coupled with the two-phase flow numerical simulation. Other methods imitate the particle ejection from the propellant surface. The RTR high-speed motion analyzer measures the trajectory of the metal particles in a combustion chamber. An image processing software was developed for tracing a slug particle path with the RTR images in the combustion chamber, by which the trajectories of particles were successfully obtained.


2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Hidenori Yasuda

AbstractA modified Verlet method which involves a kind of mid-point rule is constructed and applied to the one-dimensional motion of elastic balls of finite size, falling under constant gravity in space and then under the chemical potential in the interface region of phase separation within a two-liquid film. When applied to the simulation of two balls falling under constant gravity in space, the new method is found to be computationally superior to the usual Verlet method and to Runge–Kutta methods, as it allows a larger time step for comparable accuracy. The main purpose of this paper is to develop an efficient numerical method to simulate balls in the interface region of phase separation within the two-liquid film, where the ball motion is coupled with two-phase flow. The two-phase flow in the film is described via shallow water equations, using an invariant finite difference scheme that accurately resolves the interface region. A larger time step in computing the ball motion, more comparable with the time step in computing the two-phase flow, is a significant advantage. The computational efficiency of the new method in the coupled problem is demonstrated for the case of four elastic balls in the two-liquid film.


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