Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6590028 | Chemical Engineering Science | 2015 | 18 Pages |
Abstract
A Wire Mesh Sensor (WMS) with a 16Ã16 spatial resolution was employed to discover the effects of liquid viscosity on the behavior of churn flow in a vertical 76.2Â mm pipe. Three liquid viscosities of 1, 10, and 40Â cP, and superficial liquid velocities of 0.46, 0.61, and 0.76Â m/s were employed; whereas, superficial gas velocity ranged from 10 to 27Â m/s. Different techniques such as Probability Density Function (PDF), and 2-D and 3-D image reconstruction methods were applied to study the flow. It was noticed that increasing liquid viscosity not only affected the flow pattern but also the appearance frequencies of interfacial structures.
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Authors
Mazdak Parsi, Ronald E. Vieira, Carlos F. Torres, Netaji R. Kesana, Brenton S. McLaury, Siamack A. Shirazi, Eckhard Schleicher, Uwe Hampel,