scholarly journals Mathematical modelling of thermal stresses within the borehole walls in terms of plasma action

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-69
Author(s):  
Anatolii Bulat ◽  
Valentyn Osіnnii ◽  
Andrii Dreus ◽  
Nataliia Osіnnia

Purpose is the development of a mathematical model to study and describe thermal processes within the borehole wall in terms of plasma-based rock breaking. Methods. The following has been applied: theoretical analysis in the framework of a theory of brittle thermoelasticity breaking, methods of mathematical modeling, and computational experiment. Findings. Brief information on the results of the development of advanced plasma-based technology for borehole reaming for hard mineral mining has been represented. The results of industrial tests of plasma plant of 150-200 kW·s power with plasma-generating gas in the air for hard rock breaking have been represented. The plant and plasma-based technology of borehole reaming were tested in underground conditions of Kryvbas mines while reaming a perimeter hole to drive a ventilation rise in silicate-magnetite quartzites. A mathematical model has been proposed to analyze heat and mechanical fields in the rock during the plasma-based action on the borehole walls. Numerical studies of the temperature dynamics and thermal stresses within the borehole-surrounding rock layer have been carried out. It has been demonstrated that if low-temperature plasma is used (Т = 3500-4000°С), thermal compressing stresses are induced within the thin rock layer; the stresses may exceed the boundary admissible ones. It has been identified that plasma-based effect on the borehole wall makes it possible to create the conditions for intense rock fracturing and breaking. Originality. Solution of a new problem of thermoelastic state of a borehole wall in terms of plasma action has been obtained. The proposed mathematical model has been formulated in a cylindrical coordinate system and considers convective and radiation heat exchange between a plasma jet and a borehole wall. Practical implications. The obtained results make it possible to assess the rock state depending on the plasma jet parameters. The proposed methods of calculations will help carry out research to evaluate breaking parameters (the required heating time, thickness of the heated layer, and approximate spall dimensions) and develop different methods for the breaking process control.

Author(s):  
K. H. Levchyk ◽  
M. V. Shcherbyna

A technical solution is proposed for the elimination the grabbing of drilling tool, based on the use of energy due to the circulation of the drilling fluid. The expediency eliminating the grabbing drilling tool using the hydro-impulse method is substantiated. A method of drawing up a mathematical model for the dynamic process of a grabbing string of drill pipes in the case of perturbation of hydro-impulse oscillations in the area of the productive rock layer is developed. The law of longitudinal displacements arising in the trapped string is obtained, which allows choosing the optimal geometrical parameters of the passage channels and the frequency rotational of shutter for these channels. Recommendations for using this method for practical use have been systematized.


Author(s):  
M. Kh. Gadzhiev ◽  
A. S. Tyuftyaev ◽  
Yu. M. Kulikov ◽  
M. A. Sargsyan ◽  
D. I. Yusupov ◽  
...  

Low-temperature plasma is used in metallurgy for steel alloying by nitrogen, deoxidization of magnetic alloys, obtaining of steels with particularly low carbon content, metal cleaning of nonmetallic inclusions, desulfurization and other refining processes. The wide application of those technologies is restrained by absence of reliable generators of low-temperature plasma (GLP) with sufficient resource of continuous operation. As a result of studies, a universal generator of high-enthalpy plasma jet of various working gases was created. The generator has expanding channel of the output electrode with an efficiency of ~60 % for argon working gas and ~80% for nitrogen and air. It was shown that the developed generator of low-temperature plasma ensures formation of a weakly diverging (2α = 12°) plasma jet with a diameter D = 5–12 mm, an enthalpy of 5–50 kJ/g and a mass average temperature of 5–10 kK, at a full electric power of the arc discharge of 5–50 kW and a plasma-forming gas flow rate of 1–3 g/s. Results of the study of propane additions to the plasma-forming gas effect on the state of cathodes with inserts made of pure tungsten, lanthanum tungsten, and hafnium presented. It was shown that a small propane addition (1%) to the plasma-forming gas, results in reducing effect of the insert material. Study of the GLP operation at arc current 100A with addition to the working gas nitrogen maximum possible volume of propane, which don’t disturb stability of arc showed that for the developed plasma generator at the nitrogen flow rate ~0,45 g/s, the propane flow rate was ~0,33 g/s (not more than ~73 % of the plasma-forming gas). The created high-resource GLP with changeable electrodes enables to obtain at the exit a high-enthalpy plasma flow of various gases (argon, nitrogen, air) and can be a prototype of more powerful plasmotrons of various technological application, in particular for plasma metallurgy.


2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (7) ◽  
pp. 075203 ◽  
Author(s):  
T R Brubaker ◽  
K Ishikawa ◽  
H Kondo ◽  
T Tsutsumi ◽  
H Hashizume ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 97 (10) ◽  
pp. 985-989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Аnton N. Alekseenko ◽  
O. M. Zhurba

Introduction. There was substantiated a method for the determination of formaldehyde by vapor-phase gas chromatography by the use of derivatizing reagent o-(2,3,4,5,6-pentafluorbenzyl)hydroxylamine. Material and methods. Formaldehyde in urine was derivatized to o-pentafluorobenzyloxime and recovered to the vapor phase by heating the urine sample with o-(2,3,4,5,6-pentafluorbenzyl)hydroxylamine in a sealed vial. Gas-chromatographic analysis of the vapor-air phase was performed in a mode of the temperature gradient on a capillary column HP-5 with a flame ionization detector. Identification of the analyte in the form of the derivative-o- pentafluorobenzyloxime of formaldehyde was carried out according to the absolute retention time, which was established by comparing the chromatograms of model formaldehyde mixtures in the urine of different concentrations. Results. The optimal conditions for gas extraction are selected using mathematical experimental planning. The most important factors of gas extraction in the vapor-phase analysis are the temperature and time of the establishment of the interphase equilibrium with heating. From the experimentally obtained curves of the analytical signal on the temperature and the heating time, the zero level and the interval of variation of these factors are chosen. A matrix for planning a 2-factor experiment was constructed. The coefficients of the mathematical model are determined. There was carried out statistical processing of the experimental data, which was reduced to the estimation of the reproducibility of the optimization parameter and to the evaluation of the significance of the coefficient of the mathematical model. The adequacy of the mathematical model was evaluated, its interpretation was carried out. Discussion. The peak area of the analyte increases with the elevating the temperature and heating time, due to an increase in the analyte concentration in the vapor phase. Moreover, the heating time makes a greater contribution to the formation of the analytical signal than the temperature. The step of motion along the gradient was calculated and the experiments of steep ascent were carried out. Conclusion. According to the results of the steep ascent experiments, the optimal conditions for the gas extraction of formaldehyde in the form of a derivative were chosen.


Geofluids ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Gongda Wang ◽  
Yuanyuan Wang ◽  
Xin Yang ◽  
Xin Song

Coalbed methane (CBM) is a source of clean energy and has been recovered in past decades all over the world. Gas dynamic disaster is the primary disaster in outburst coal, and methane drainage plays a key role in eliminating this danger. As an efficient technology, a gas jet is widely used in CBM development and methane drainage. In this work, the full impinging process of coal and rock fracturing by a supersonic gas jet was studied. To understand how jet parameters affect coal and rock fracturing results, an elliptical crushing theoretical model was proposed. In addition, a laboratory experiment was designed to examine the proposed model, and four key parameters affecting the fracturing results were studied. The results show that different from the monotonic variation of theoretical values, there is a turning point in the variation of experimental values under some parameters. Considering the influence of the depth and radius of the erosion pit, the rock-breaking effect is better when the nozzle size is 2.75 Ma. The optimal target distance is 30 mm, and the impact pressure of a gas jet should be continuously increased in order to achieve certain rock-breaking effects under the impact of the jet.


2014 ◽  
Vol 105 (10) ◽  
pp. 104103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Zhang ◽  
Jie Zhuang ◽  
Thomas von Woedtke ◽  
Juergen F. Kolb ◽  
Jue Zhang ◽  
...  

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 5283
Author(s):  
Slawomir Blasiak

The purpose of this study was to develop a mathematical model for non-contacting face seals to analyze how their performance is affected by thermoelastic phenomena. The model was used to solve thermal conductivity and thermoelasticity problems. The primary goal was to calculate the values of thermal deformations of the sealing rings in a non-contacting face seal with a flexibly mounted rotor (FMR) for a turbomachine. The model assumes the conversion of mechanical energy into heat in the fluid film. The heat flux generated in the fluid film is transferred first to the sealing rings and then to the fluid surrounding them. Asymmetric distribution of temperature within the sealing rings leads to the occurrence of thermal stresses and, consequently, a change in the geometry of the rings. The model is solved analytically. The distributions of temperature fields for the sealing rings in the cross-sections are calculated using the Fourier-Bessel series as a superficial function of two variables (r,z). The thermoelasticity problems described by the Navier equations are solved by applying the Boussinesq harmonic functions and Goodier’s thermoelastic displacement potential function. The proposed method involves solving various theoretical and practical problems of thermoelasticity in FMR-type non-contacting face seals. The solution of the mathematical model was made use of analytical methods, and the most important obtained results are presented in graphical form, such as the temperature distributions and axial thermal distortions in cross-sections of the rings. The calculated thermal deformations of the sealing rings are used to determine the most important seal performance parameters such as the leakage rate and power loss. The article also presents a multi-criteria analysis of seal rings materials and geometry, which makes it easier to choose the type of materials used for the sliding rings.


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