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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIPHYSICS
卷 5, 期 3, 页码 187-202出版社
MULTI-SCIENCE PUBL CO LTD
DOI: 10.1260/1750-9548.5.3.187
关键词
Hydrocyclone; Droplet size; Heavy-oil; Computational Fluid Dynamics
资金
- CNPq
- FINEP
- CT-PETRO
- ANP
- CAPES
- UFCG
- JBR Engenharia Ltda (Brazil)
In the oil exploitation, produced fluids are composed of oil, gas, water and sand (depending on the reservoir location). The presence of sand in flow oil leads to several industrial problems for example: erosion and accumulation in valves and pipeline. Thus, it is necessary to stop production for manual cleaning of equipments and pipes. These facts have attracted attention of academic and industrial areas, enabling the appearing of new technologies or improvement of the water/oil/sand separation process. One equipment that has been used to promote phase separation is the hydrocyclone due to high performance of separation and required low cost to installation and maintenance. In this sense, the purpose of this work is to study numerically the effect of geometric parameters (vortex finder diameter) of the hydrocyclone and sand concentration on the inlet fluid separation process. A numerical solution of the governing equations was obtained by the ANSYS CFX-11 commercial code. Results of the streamlines, pressure drop and separation efficiency on the hydrocyclone are presented and analyzed. It was observed that the particles concentration and geometry affect the separation efficiency of the hydrocyclone.
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