The limit of the film extraction technique for annular two-phase flow in a small tube
The limit of the liquid film extraction technique was identified in air-water and Freon-113 annular two-phase flow loops. The purpose of this research is to find the limit of the entrainment rate correlation obtained by Lopez de Bertodano et. al. (1998). The film extraction technique involves the suction of the liquid film through a porous tube and has been widely used to obtain annular flow entrainment and entrainment rate data. In these experiments there are two extraction probes. After the first extraction the entrained droplets in the gas core deposit on the tube wall. A new liquid film develops entirely from liquid deposition and a second liquid film extraction is performed. While it is assumed that the entire liquid film is removed after the first extraction unit, this is not true for high liquid flow. At high liquid film flows the interfacial structure of the film becomes frothy. Then the entire liquid film cannot be removed at the first extraction unit, but continues on and is extracted at the second extraction unit. A simple model to characterize the limit of the extraction technique was obtained based on the hypothesis that the transition occurs due to a change in the wave structure. The resulting dimensionless correlation agrees with the data.
- Research Organization:
- Bettis Atomic Power Lab., West Mifflin, PA (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of Energy (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC11-98PN38206
- OSTI ID:
- 754910
- Report Number(s):
- B-T-3257; TRN: AH200020%%5
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 1999 National Heat Transfer Conference, Albuquerque, NM (US), 08/15/1999--08/17/2000; Other Information: PBD: 1 Jul 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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