Abstract
Sand transportation within flow devices causes major problems for the hydrocarbon production industry and entails crucial material removal from pipelines and leads to failure and malfunction of the piping system. The 90° elbow configuration is an indispensable flow changing device used to redirect the flow direction in hydrocarbon and mineral processing industries. This paper highlights a comprehensive approach to quantify erosion in 90° elbow configuration ensues from fine particle transportation with the carrier fluid. A multilayer paint modeling (MPM) technique and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) are adopted to map the erosion distribution inside the elbow under liquid–solid flow in a flow loop setup. The experiments for horizontal-to-horizontal (H–H) orientation elbow with 50.8 mm inner diameter are performed with fine sand of 50 μm size entertains in a carrier fluid at 3 m/s. The high erosion zones have been located near the outlet of the 90° elbow under fine particle impact with a maximum erosion rate of 1.82 mm/year in horizontal–horizontal (H–H) oriented elbow.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Advances in Manufacturing Engineering - Selected Articles from ICMMPE 2019 |
| Editors | Seyed Sattar Emamian, Farazila Yusof, Mokhtar Awang |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH |
| Pages | 223-230 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9789811557521 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2020 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 5th International Conference on Mechanical, Manufacturing and Plant Engineering, ICMMPE 2019 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Duration: 19 Nov 2019 → 21 Nov 2019 |
Publication series
| Name | Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering |
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| ISSN (Print) | 2195-4356 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 2195-4364 |
Conference
| Conference | 5th International Conference on Mechanical, Manufacturing and Plant Engineering, ICMMPE 2019 |
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| Country/Territory | Malaysia |
| City | Kuala Lumpur |
| Period | 19/11/19 → 21/11/19 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd 2020.
Keywords
- CFD
- Elbow
- Erosion
- Multilayer paint modeling
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Automotive Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes