Motion of Air Bubbles in a Cement Slurry

Konan, N’dri Arthur; Rosenbaum, Eilis; Massoudi, Mehrdad

doi:10.3390/ma16196433

Motion of Air Bubbles in a Cement Slurry

Journal Article · Wed Sep 27 00:00:00 EDT 2023 · Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16196433· OSTI ID:2471192

Konan, N’dri Arthur ^[1]; Rosenbaum, Eilis ^[2]; ^[2]

National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Morgantown, WV (United States)
National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA (United States)

The dynamics of air (gas) bubbles in a column of cement slurry is examined numerically. The air injected at the bottom of a laboratory-scale column through a porous distributor plate spatially distributes and migrates as a swarm of bubbles throughout the slurry toward the freeboard. The two-phase system of the cement slurry and the air bubbles is modeled using the conservation equations of mass and linear momentum in the framework of the volume-of-fluid (VOF) approach. The cement slurry is modeled using the Herschel–Bulkley and Bingham fluid models. Results show that the mean Sauter diameter and the mean rise velocity of the bubbles decrease with the gas flow rate. Meanwhile, it is found that the rising of the bubbles is controlled by breakup events, along with relatively weak path instabilities of the bubbles resulting in relatively straight trajectories, independent of the gas flow rate. The extent of the yielded region appears larger for the Herschel–Bulkley model compared to the Bingham fluid model (by approximately 10%).

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Research Organization:: National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

OSTI ID:: 2471192

Journal Information:: Materials, Journal Name: Materials Journal Issue: 19 Vol. 16; ISSN 1996-1944

Publisher:: MDPICopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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