A Coupled Heat and Water Flow Apparatus

1993 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 85 ◽  
Author(s):  
HJ Pincus ◽  
A-MO Mohamed ◽  
RN Yong ◽  
F Caporouscio ◽  
SCH Cheung ◽  
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Author(s):  
Kevin K. Bultongez ◽  
Melanie M. Derby

This study investigates adiabatic oil and water flow patterns in a 3.7-mm-inner-diameter borosilicate glass tube. A closed-loop flow apparatus was constructed and pressure drop was verified using single-phase liquid water. Minor losses were shown to be negligible, and 98% of the pressure drop occurred in the glass tube. Oil-water tests were conducted over a range of oil superficial velocities (0.27 < jo < 3.3 m/s) and water superficial velocities (0.07 < jw < 4.96 m/s). Annular, intermittent, and dispersed flow regimes were observed and shown. For nearly all cases, an annular water ring formed along the perimeter of the glass tube. Two-phase pressure drops are reported.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi-Le Ding ◽  
Shuai-Bing Song

To study the effects of compression rate and weight ratio of sandstone to mudstone on permeability, water flow tests were performed on crushed rocks using an in-house designed and built water flow apparatus. Seepage properties of sandstone and mudstone were tested on specimens under six axial displacement levels. The weight ratios of the six specimens of sandstone to mudstone were set to 1 : 0, 4 : 1, 3 : 2, 2 : 3, 1 : 4, and 0 : 1. A non-Darcy law was adopted to calculate the permeability in the experiments based on verification of the Reynolds number. Non-Darcy flow is found to be most significant when the axial displacement or mudstone content increases. The permeability in the experiments is found to be in the range of 9.1 × 10−15–9.492 × 10−13 m2, which is calculated from a quadratic polynomial fit between the flow velocity and pressure gradient. A compression rate of 28.6% and weight ratio of sandstone to mudstone of 60% are found to be key values affecting permeability. When the axial displacement of specimen A (1 : 0) increases from 10 mm to 30 mm, the compression rate (ratio of axial displacement to original specimen height) increases from 9.5% to 28.6%, and the permeability decreases by 83.8% to 1.534 × 10−13 m2. When the axial displacement is 10 mm and the content of mudstone is increased from 0% to 60%, the permeability decreases by 77.1% to 2.172 × 10−13 m2.


Author(s):  
A.J. Mia ◽  
L.X. Oakford ◽  
T. Yorio

The amphibian urinary bladder has been used as a ‘model’ system for studies of the mechanism of action of antidiuretic hormone (ADH) in stimulating transepithelial water flow. The increase in water permeability is accompanied by morphological changes that include the stimulation of apical microvilli, mobilization of microtubules and microfilaments and vesicular membrane fusion events . It has been shown that alterations in the cytosolic calcium concentrations can inhibit ADH transmembrane water flow and induce alterations in the epithelial cell cytomorphology, including the cytoskeletal system . Recently, the subapical granules of the granular cell in the amphibian urinary bladder have been shown to contain high concentrations of calcium, and it was suggested that these cytoplasmic constituents may act as calcium storage sites for intracellular calcium homeostasis. The present study utilizes the calcium antagonist, verapamil, to examine the effect of calcium deprivation on the cytomorphological features of epithelial cells from amphibian urinary bladder, with particular emphasis on subapical granule and microfilament distribution.


Author(s):  
Enrico Marchi ◽  
Attilio Adami ◽  
Alfredo Caielli ◽  
Giovanni Cecconi

Author(s):  
Anatoly Kusher

The reliability of water flow measurement in irrigational canals depends on the measurement method and design features of the flow-measuring structure and the upstream flow velocity profile. The flow velocity profile is a function of the channel geometry and wall roughness. The article presents the study results of the influence of the upstream flow velocity profile on the discharge measurement accuracy. For this, the physical and numerical modeling of two structures was carried out: a critical depth flume and a hydrometric overfall in a rectangular channel. According to the data of numerical simulation of the critical depth flume with a uniform and parabolic (1/7) velocity profile in the upstream channel, the values of water discharge differ very little from the experimental values in the laboratory model with a similar geometry (δ < 2 %). In contrast to the critical depth flume, a change in the velocity profile only due to an increase in the height of the bottom roughness by 3 mm causes a decrease of the overfall discharge coefficient by 4…5 %. According to the results of the numerical and physical modeling, it was found that an increase of backwater by hydrometric structure reduces the influence of the upstream flow velocity profile and increases the reliability of water flow measurements.


The intensification of the work of open gutter by applying textured shells to their bottom surface, forming an artificial roughness, is considered. It is shown that the presence of corrugated surfaces contributes to vortex formation during water flow and improves the separation and transportation of mineral impurities previously dropped into the bottom of the gutters. The implementation of operations to improve the structure of the gutters is possible during the repair and restoration works with the use of modern polymer materials. The design of a small-sized hydraulic stand, which makes it possible to study the transport capacity of flows containing solid inclusions, is presented. The method of research is hydraulic testing, accompanied by the use of chiaroscuro effect, as well as photo and film equipment. The optimal structure of the inner surface of the gutters and pipes providing vortex formation, which will improve the ability of the flow to carry out and transport foreign dispersed inclusions (sand) of different granulometric compositions, is determined.


2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-17
Author(s):  
I. David ◽  
M. Visescu

Abstract Geothermal energy source is the heat from the Earth, which ranges from the shallow ground (the upper 100 m of the Earth) to the hot water and hot rock which is a few thousand meters beneath the Earth's surface. In both cases the so-called open systems for geothermal energy resource exploitation consist of a groundwater production well to supply heat energy and an injection well to return the cooled water, from the heat pump after the thermal energy transfer, in the underground. In the paper an analytical method for a rapid estimation of the ground water flow direction effect on the coupled production well and injection well system will be proposed. The method will be illustrated with solutions and images for representative flow directions respect to the axis of the production/injection well system.


2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 1149
Author(s):  
Dimitra A. Zoga ◽  
Dimitrios S. Georgakis-Gavrilis ◽  
Dionissios P. Margaris

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