Air-water countercurrent annular flow
01 Sep 1979-Vol. 81, pp 15325
About: The article was published on 1979-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 101 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Open-channel flow & Countercurrent exchange.
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TL;DR: In this article, the properties of clusters of particles travelling near the riser wall are predicted from experimental data published in the literature on vertical risers ranging from laboratory to industrial scale, and expressions for predicting the size, shape, density, wall film coverage and velocity of particle clusters are presented.
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TL;DR: In this article, a new flooding correlation is presented which solves the obvious contradiction between the Wallis correlation and the study by Pushkina and Sorokin concerning the scaling question at zero penetration of liquid.
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TL;DR: In this article, a predictive mathematical model is proposed to characterize and quantify all facets of the time-averaged gas and solids flow structure and properties within circulating fluidized bed (CFB) risers.
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TL;DR: In the absence of electromagnetic force fields, thermocapillary effects or concentration-capillary effects, countercurrent flow can be sustained only as a result of the difference in the gravitational force per unit volume on the gas and on the liquid as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Countercurrent flow of a gas and a liquid in direct contact with each other is, of necessity, gravity dominated. That is, in the absence of electromagnetic force fields, thermocapillary effects, or concentration-capillary effects, countercurrent flow can be sustained only as a result of the difference in the gravitational force per unit volume on the gas and on the liquid. If the gas and liquid are simultaneously introduced into a porous medium or into a vertical or inclined pipe, the gas tends to rise relative to the liquid. If conditions allow complete separation, it is possible to maintain steady countercurrent flow in which the liquid discharges at the bottom while the gas flows out from the top. The countercurrent flow is opposed by interfacial friction between the phases, which always seems to increase monotonically as the relative countercurrent mean velocity of the phases increases. Hence, for a given geometry and liquid-gas pair, there is a maximum relative velocity that can be sustained in countercurrent flow. This point is known as the onset of flooding. Further increases in gas or liquid input ratas result in only partial delivery of the liquid out of the bottom. Eventually, if the gas velocity becomes sufficiently high, none of the liquid is delivered at the bottom, and fully cocurrent upward flow is established. If the liquid is being introduced from an upper plenum, none will penetrate into the pipe or porous medium when this second critical gas velocity is reached.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effect of tube end geometries on measured countercurrent fluxes, liquid fraction, and pressure gradients, and analogies between countercurrent gas-liquid flow and other more familiar flows in internal geometry are indicated.
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