Experimental and CFD Modelling: Impact of the Inlet Slug Flow on the Horizontal Gas–Liquid Separator
| Autor: | Zhen Hong Ban, Luqman Chuah Abdullah, Siong Hoong Lee, Thomas Shean Yaw Choong, Musab Abdul Razak |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Control and Optimization
Materials science inlet slug flow Slosh dynamics Energy Engineering and Power Technology Liquid phase Separator (oil production) 02 engineering and technology Computational fluid dynamics 01 natural sciences lcsh:Technology 010305 fluids & plasmas 020401 chemical engineering 0103 physical sciences gas-liquid separator 0204 chemical engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Engineering (miscellaneous) geography Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) geography.geographical_feature_category Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry lcsh:T sloshing Mechanics cavity formation Flow pattern Slug flow Inlet Sizing business Energy (miscellaneous) |
| Zdroj: | Energies, Vol 12, Iss 1, p 41 (2018) Energies Volume 12 Issue 1 |
| ISSN: | 1996-1073 |
| Popis: | For a gas-liquid separator sizing, many engineers have neglected the flow pattern of incoming fluids. The impact of inlet slug flow which impeded onto the separator&rsquo s liquid phase will cause a separator fails to perform when sloshing happened in the separator. To date, the study on verifying the impact of inlet slug flow in a separator remains limited. In this paper, the impact of inlet momentum and inlet slug flow on the hydrodynamics in a separator for cases without an inlet device were investigated. The experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) results of cavity formation and sloshing occurrence in the separator in this study were compared. A User Defined Function (UDF) was used to describe the inlet slug flow at the separator inlet. Inlet slug flow occurred at inlet momentum from 200 to 1000 Pa, and sloshing occurred in the separator at 1000 Pa. Both experimental and simulated results showed similar phenomena. |
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