TY - GEN
T1 - An experimental study on air-water two-phase flow in pebble beds
AU - Bai, Bofeng
AU - Liu, Maolong
AU - Zhang, Xiaojie
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - An experimental study was conducted on the air-water two-phase flow patterns and pressure drop in the bed of rectangular cross section containing spheres of regular distribution. Three kinds of glass spheres with different diameters (3mm, 6mm and 8mm) were used for the establishment of the test section. By means of visual observations of the two-phase flow through the test section, it was discovered that five different flow patterns occur in the experimental parameter ranges, namely bubbly flow, bubbly-slug flow, slug flow, slug-annular flow and annular flow. A correlation for bubble and slug diameter in packed beds was proposed, which is an extension of the Tung/Dhir model, Jamialahmadi's model and Schmidt's model. Three correlations were proposed to calculate the void friction of flow regime transition in bubble flow, slug flow and annular flow based on the bubble model in the pore region. The experimental result shows that the modified Tung and Dhir's model of flow pattern transition is a better agreement with the experimental data compared with Tung and Dhir's model.
AB - An experimental study was conducted on the air-water two-phase flow patterns and pressure drop in the bed of rectangular cross section containing spheres of regular distribution. Three kinds of glass spheres with different diameters (3mm, 6mm and 8mm) were used for the establishment of the test section. By means of visual observations of the two-phase flow through the test section, it was discovered that five different flow patterns occur in the experimental parameter ranges, namely bubbly flow, bubbly-slug flow, slug flow, slug-annular flow and annular flow. A correlation for bubble and slug diameter in packed beds was proposed, which is an extension of the Tung/Dhir model, Jamialahmadi's model and Schmidt's model. Three correlations were proposed to calculate the void friction of flow regime transition in bubble flow, slug flow and annular flow based on the bubble model in the pore region. The experimental result shows that the modified Tung and Dhir's model of flow pattern transition is a better agreement with the experimental data compared with Tung and Dhir's model.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/77952810304
U2 - 10.1115/ICONE17-75590
DO - 10.1115/ICONE17-75590
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:77952810304
SN - 9780791843536
T3 - International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, Proceedings, ICONE
SP - 495
EP - 501
BT - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering 2009, ICONE17
T2 - 17th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, ICONE17
Y2 - 12 July 2009 through 16 July 2009
ER -