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Title: Advanced tomographic flow diagnostics for opaque multiphase fluids

Abstract

This report documents the work performed for the ``Advanced Tomographic Flow Diagnostics for Opaque Multiphase Fluids`` LDRD (Laboratory-Directed Research and Development) project and is presented as the fulfillment of the LDRD reporting requirement. Dispersed multiphase flows, particularly gas-liquid flows, are industrially important to the chemical and applied-energy industries, where bubble-column reactors are employed for chemical synthesis and waste treatment. Due to the large range of length scales (10{sup {minus}6}-10{sup 1}m) inherent in real systems, direct numerical simulation is not possible at present, so computational simulations are forced to use models of subgrid-scale processes, the accuracy of which strongly impacts simulation fidelity. The development and validation of such subgrid-scale models requires data sets at representative conditions. The ideal measurement techniques would provide spatially and temporally resolved full-field measurements of the distributions of all phases, their velocity fields, and additional associated quantities such as pressure and temperature. No technique or set of techniques is known that satisfies this requirement. In this study, efforts are focused on characterizing the spatial distribution of the phases in two-phase gas-liquid flow and in three-phase gas-liquid-solid flow. Due to its industrial importance, the bubble-column geometry is selected for diagnostics development and assessment. Two bubble-column testbeds are utilized:more » one at laboratory scale and one close to industrial scale. Several techniques for measuring the phase distributions at conditions of industrial interest are examined: level-rise measurements, differential-pressure measurements, bulk electrical impedance measurements, electrical bubble probes, x-ray tomography, gamma-densitometry tomography, and electrical impedance tomography.« less

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
481578
Report Number(s):
SAND-97-1176
ON: DE97007441; TRN: AHC29712%%121
DOE Contract Number:  
AC04-94AL85000
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: May 1997
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING NOT INCLUDED IN OTHER CATEGORIES; MULTIPHASE FLOW; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; FLOW VISUALIZATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; ALGORITHMS; TOMOGRAPHY; INDUSTRIAL RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE

Citation Formats

Torczynski, J R, O`Hern, T J, Adkins, D R, Jackson, N B, and Shollenberger, K A. Advanced tomographic flow diagnostics for opaque multiphase fluids. United States: N. p., 1997. Web. doi:10.2172/481578.
Torczynski, J R, O`Hern, T J, Adkins, D R, Jackson, N B, & Shollenberger, K A. Advanced tomographic flow diagnostics for opaque multiphase fluids. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/481578
Torczynski, J R, O`Hern, T J, Adkins, D R, Jackson, N B, and Shollenberger, K A. 1997. "Advanced tomographic flow diagnostics for opaque multiphase fluids". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/481578. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/481578.
@article{osti_481578,
title = {Advanced tomographic flow diagnostics for opaque multiphase fluids},
author = {Torczynski, J R and O`Hern, T J and Adkins, D R and Jackson, N B and Shollenberger, K A},
abstractNote = {This report documents the work performed for the ``Advanced Tomographic Flow Diagnostics for Opaque Multiphase Fluids`` LDRD (Laboratory-Directed Research and Development) project and is presented as the fulfillment of the LDRD reporting requirement. Dispersed multiphase flows, particularly gas-liquid flows, are industrially important to the chemical and applied-energy industries, where bubble-column reactors are employed for chemical synthesis and waste treatment. Due to the large range of length scales (10{sup {minus}6}-10{sup 1}m) inherent in real systems, direct numerical simulation is not possible at present, so computational simulations are forced to use models of subgrid-scale processes, the accuracy of which strongly impacts simulation fidelity. The development and validation of such subgrid-scale models requires data sets at representative conditions. The ideal measurement techniques would provide spatially and temporally resolved full-field measurements of the distributions of all phases, their velocity fields, and additional associated quantities such as pressure and temperature. No technique or set of techniques is known that satisfies this requirement. In this study, efforts are focused on characterizing the spatial distribution of the phases in two-phase gas-liquid flow and in three-phase gas-liquid-solid flow. Due to its industrial importance, the bubble-column geometry is selected for diagnostics development and assessment. Two bubble-column testbeds are utilized: one at laboratory scale and one close to industrial scale. Several techniques for measuring the phase distributions at conditions of industrial interest are examined: level-rise measurements, differential-pressure measurements, bulk electrical impedance measurements, electrical bubble probes, x-ray tomography, gamma-densitometry tomography, and electrical impedance tomography.},
doi = {10.2172/481578},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/481578}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1997},
month = {Thu May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1997}
}