TY - JOUR
T1 - Bubble size in coalescence dominant regime of turbulent air-water flow through horizontal pipes
AU - Razzaque, M. Mahbubur
AU - Afacan, Artin
AU - Liu, Shijie
AU - Nandakumar, K.
AU - Masliyah, Jacob H.
AU - Sanders, R. Sean
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Syncrude Canada Ltd. for this project.
PY - 2003/9
Y1 - 2003/9
N2 - An experimental study was performed in a 25.4 mm ID pipeline to evaluate the development of the bubble size distribution in the horizontal flow of an air-water system. As the air stream enters into the flowing water stream through a T-injector, it breaks into bubbles with a log-normal size distribution. Because of the small water velocity (1-3 m/s) and small initial bubble size, coalescence, not breakage, plays the dominant role in the present study. The effects of average water velocity, air volume fraction and air injector diameter on the initial bubble size distribution and its evolution along the length of the pipe in the coalescence dominant regime are investigated.At larger water velocities, the log-normal bubble size distributions are also maintained downstream of the injector. At smaller velocities, the distributions deviate slightly from the log-normal pattern. For all distributions, the value of the ratio d99.8/d32 is about 2.2 and is fairly independent of average water velocity, pipe length, air volume fraction and air injector diameter. It is found that at large velocities of water, the prediction of dmax through Levich's breakup theory agrees well with the experimental d99.8 values for air volume fraction up to 0.003.
AB - An experimental study was performed in a 25.4 mm ID pipeline to evaluate the development of the bubble size distribution in the horizontal flow of an air-water system. As the air stream enters into the flowing water stream through a T-injector, it breaks into bubbles with a log-normal size distribution. Because of the small water velocity (1-3 m/s) and small initial bubble size, coalescence, not breakage, plays the dominant role in the present study. The effects of average water velocity, air volume fraction and air injector diameter on the initial bubble size distribution and its evolution along the length of the pipe in the coalescence dominant regime are investigated.At larger water velocities, the log-normal bubble size distributions are also maintained downstream of the injector. At smaller velocities, the distributions deviate slightly from the log-normal pattern. For all distributions, the value of the ratio d99.8/d32 is about 2.2 and is fairly independent of average water velocity, pipe length, air volume fraction and air injector diameter. It is found that at large velocities of water, the prediction of dmax through Levich's breakup theory agrees well with the experimental d99.8 values for air volume fraction up to 0.003.
KW - Air-water pipe flow
KW - Bubble breakup
KW - Bubble coalescence
KW - Bubble size distribution
KW - Coalescence dominant regime
KW - Dispersed bubbly flow
KW - Two-phase horizontal flow
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U2 - 10.1016/S0301-9322(03)00123-X
DO - 10.1016/S0301-9322(03)00123-X
M3 - 文章
AN - SCOPUS:0141708067
SN - 0301-9322
VL - 29
SP - 1451
EP - 1471
JO - International Journal of Multiphase Flow
JF - International Journal of Multiphase Flow
IS - 9
ER -