4.5 Article

Experimental study of droplet behavior in a swirl flow field induced by two kinds of guiding vanes and inlet structure optimization

期刊

JOURNAL OF HYDRODYNAMICS
卷 33, 期 1, 页码 104-110

出版社

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s42241-021-0001-4

关键词

Swirl flow field; droplet breakage mechanism; maximum droplet size; experiment

向作者/读者索取更多资源

The study investigates the droplet behavior in a swirl flow created by two different types of guiding vanes in a VTPS. The results show that the streamlined deflector outperforms the semi-elliptical plate, which can be explained by a modified T-model. The use of the modified T-model is recommended for optimizing the design of guiding vanes in the swirling generating stage.
Droplet breakage is a common phenomenon in converting a pipe flow to a swirl flow in a vane-type pipe separator (VTPS)' inlet. The evaluation of the dispersed droplet sizes after breakage is crucial to the optimum design of the inlet structure and the estimation of the oil-water separation performance. This paper studies the droplet behavior in a swirl flow produced by guiding vanes. Experiments are performed with two different guiding vanes at the inlet of the VTPS. The sizes of the produced oil droplets at the downstream of the guiding vanes are measured in situ using a Malvern Insitec SX. The results indicate that the streamlined deflector is superior to the semi-elliptical plate for the VTPS' optimization based on the comparison of the droplet sizes in their respective induced swirl flow fields, which can be explained by a modified T-model. Our study suggests that the use of the modified T-model is a reliable method to optimize the design of the guiding vane in the swirling generating stage.

作者

我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。

评论

主要评分

4.5
评分不足

次要评分

新颖性
-
重要性
-
科学严谨性
-
评价这篇论文

推荐

暂无数据
暂无数据