A Comprehensive Procedure to Estimate Erosion in Elbows for Gas/Liquid/Sand Multiphase Flow

Author:

Chen Xianghui1,McLaury Brenton S.2,Shirazi Siamack A.2

Affiliation:

1. Department of Petroleum Engineering

2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tulsa, 600 South College Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74104

Abstract

A comprehensive procedure that combines mechanistic analysis and numerical simulation approaches is proposed to estimate the erosion in elbows for gas/liquid/sand particle multiphase flow systems. The erosion problem in multiphase flow is approximately transferred to one in single-phase flow by introducing the effective sand mass ratio and a representative single-phase flow to which a single-phase computational-fluid-dynamics-based erosion-prediction model can be applied. Erosion in elbows is calculated for various multiphase flow patterns and compared to experimental data in the literature. Reasonable agreement between the simulations and the literature data is observed. The proposed approach is an effective tool to estimate the erosion in multiphase flow.

Publisher

ASME International

Subject

Geochemistry and Petrology,Mechanical Engineering,Energy Engineering and Power Technology,Fuel Technology,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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