Title
Air entrainment due to a plunging free-surface flow
Date Issued
01 January 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference proceedings
Author(s)
Rodriguez O.M.H.
University of São Paulo
Publisher(s)
Begell House Inc.
Abstract
The air entrainment due to a plunging free-surface flow in the Inverted-Shroud gravitational gas-liquid separator (IS-separator) is studied in order to determine bubble size. This kind of flow system is an unconventional one. After air entrainment happens, the continuous liquid phase tries to carry the generated bubbles downstream into the IS-separator. We describe the equipment features and outline that its performance depends on the size of the generated bubbles formed during the air entrainment process. It is also shown that bubble diameter can be expressed as a function of the free-surface velocity and a characteristic length Ldis, where the kinetic energy of plunging free-surface flow is dissipated. Some Ldis correlations from literature are used to determinate bubble diameter as a function of flow conditions, fluid properties and geometry of the IS-separator. The predictions are compared with reported experimental results showing good agreement. On the other hand, it is shown that bubble diameter predictions using classical models are not suitable. The results suggest that the models based on Ldis are appropriate, however more comparison are needed in order to get conclusive results.
Start page
625
End page
629
Volume
2018-March
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Meteorología y ciencias atmosféricas
Geoquímica, Geofísica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85090771323
Source
Proceedings of the Thermal and Fluids Engineering Summer Conference
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings of the Thermal and Fluids Engineering Summer Conference
ISSN of the container
23791748
ISBN of the container
978-156700472-4
Conference
3rd Thermal and Fluid Engineering Summer Conference, TFESC 2018
Sponsor(s)
The authors acknowledge ANP (The Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels) and PETROBRAS for the financial support. L. Enrique Ortiz Vidal is also grateful to FIPAI (Fundação para o Incremento da Pesquisa e do Aperfeiçoamento Industrial). Oscar Rodriguez thanks CNPq for the research grant.
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