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http://dx.doi.org/10.14346/JKOSOS.2017.32.1.75

An Experimental Investigation on the Behavior of Water-Air Two-phase Flows in a Horizontal Pipe  

Cho, Hanil (Department of Eco-friendly Offshore FEED Engineering, Changwon National University)
Lee, Kyungsu (Department of Eco-friendly Offshore FEED Engineering, Changwon National University)
Lyu, Siwan (School of Civil, Environmental, & Chemical Engineering, Changwon National University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.32, no.1, 2017 , pp. 75-81 More about this Journal
Abstract
A series of laboratory experiments has been performed in order to investigate the behavior of water-air two-phase flow in a horizontal pipe. A conductivity meter has been applied to detect the irregular alternation of air at the specific points in flows. The experimental condition has been established according to the water and air flowrates. Passing time, which is the time length for a measuring probe to pass through the entire length of a specific bubble, has been defined to evaluate the size of bubbles in the flow. Passing length, which can be considered as the equivalent value to bubble size and determined from the product of passing time and cross-sectional averaged velocity, and its corresponding occurrence frequency have been analyzed to classify the air flow patterns according to the condition of air and water fluxes. From the result, the dependancy of flow patterns on the variation of air-water flux ratio has been investigated and the existence of thresholds also checked for classifying the behavior of air in the flow.
Keywords
two-phase flow; conductivity meter; passing length; occurrence frequency; air-water ratio;
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