Experimental and CFD modelling: impact of the inlet slug flow on the horizontal gas–liquid separator
For a gas-liquid separator sizing, many engineers have neglected the flow pattern of incoming fluids. The impact of inlet slug flow which impeded onto the separator’s liquid phase will cause a separator fails to perform when sloshing happened in the separator. To date, the study on verifying the imp...
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| author | Lee, Siong Hoong Choong, Thomas S. Y. Abdullah, Luqman Chuah Abdul Razak, Mus’ab Ban, Zhen Hong |
| author_facet | Lee, Siong Hoong Choong, Thomas S. Y. Abdullah, Luqman Chuah Abdul Razak, Mus’ab Ban, Zhen Hong |
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| description | For a gas-liquid separator sizing, many engineers have neglected the flow pattern of incoming fluids. The impact of inlet slug flow which impeded onto the separator’s liquid phase will cause a separator fails to perform when sloshing happened in the separator. To date, the study on verifying the impact of inlet slug flow in a separator remains limited. In this paper, the impact of inlet momentum and inlet slug flow on the hydrodynamics in a separator for cases without an inlet device were investigated. The experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) results of cavity formation and sloshing occurrence in the separator in this study were compared. A User Defined Function (UDF) was used to describe the inlet slug flow at the separator inlet. Inlet slug flow occurred at inlet momentum from 200 to 1000 Pa, and sloshing occurred in the separator at 1000 Pa. Both experimental and simulated results showed similar phenomena. |
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| spelling | upm.eprints-797942022-11-05T18:19:14Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/79794/ Experimental and CFD modelling: impact of the inlet slug flow on the horizontal gas–liquid separator Lee, Siong Hoong Choong, Thomas S. Y. Abdullah, Luqman Chuah Abdul Razak, Mus’ab Ban, Zhen Hong For a gas-liquid separator sizing, many engineers have neglected the flow pattern of incoming fluids. The impact of inlet slug flow which impeded onto the separator’s liquid phase will cause a separator fails to perform when sloshing happened in the separator. To date, the study on verifying the impact of inlet slug flow in a separator remains limited. In this paper, the impact of inlet momentum and inlet slug flow on the hydrodynamics in a separator for cases without an inlet device were investigated. The experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) results of cavity formation and sloshing occurrence in the separator in this study were compared. A User Defined Function (UDF) was used to describe the inlet slug flow at the separator inlet. Inlet slug flow occurred at inlet momentum from 200 to 1000 Pa, and sloshing occurred in the separator at 1000 Pa. Both experimental and simulated results showed similar phenomena. Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019 Article PeerReviewed Lee, Siong Hoong and Choong, Thomas S. Y. and Abdullah, Luqman Chuah and Abdul Razak, Mus’ab and Ban, Zhen Hong (2019) Experimental and CFD modelling: impact of the inlet slug flow on the horizontal gas–liquid separator. Energies, 12 (1). art. no. 41. pp. 1-32. ISSN 1996-1073 https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/1/41 10.3390/en12010041 |
| spellingShingle | Lee, Siong Hoong Choong, Thomas S. Y. Abdullah, Luqman Chuah Abdul Razak, Mus’ab Ban, Zhen Hong Experimental and CFD modelling: impact of the inlet slug flow on the horizontal gas–liquid separator |
| title | Experimental and CFD modelling: impact of the inlet slug flow on the horizontal gas–liquid separator |
| title_full | Experimental and CFD modelling: impact of the inlet slug flow on the horizontal gas–liquid separator |
| title_fullStr | Experimental and CFD modelling: impact of the inlet slug flow on the horizontal gas–liquid separator |
| title_full_unstemmed | Experimental and CFD modelling: impact of the inlet slug flow on the horizontal gas–liquid separator |
| title_short | Experimental and CFD modelling: impact of the inlet slug flow on the horizontal gas–liquid separator |
| title_sort | experimental and cfd modelling impact of the inlet slug flow on the horizontal gas liquid separator |
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