On Upward Swirling Liquid Film in Gas-liquid Pipe Compact Separator

Sunday Kanshio

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On Upward Swirling Liquid Film in Gas-liquid Pipe Compact Separator

Sunday Kanshio

Published in Petroleum Science and Engineering (Volume 3, Issue 2)

Received: 24 July 2019 Accepted: 13 August 2019 Published: 29 August 2019

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This paper presents experimental findings on upward swirling liquid film for both single-phase and two-phase gas-liquid flow in a vertical gas-liquid cyclonic separator. The upward swirling liquid film is one dynamic phenomenon that occurs in pipe cyclonic separator. The upward swirling of the liquid film in the upper part of the cyclonic separator is the primary source of liquid entrainment into the gas core. Liquid entrainment from the separator wall into the gas core is the main cause of liquid carryover. Liquid carryover is the major disadvantage of the gas-liquid pipe cyclonic separator. Various researchers in the past have identified the effect of this phenomenon on the performance of gas-liquid pipe cyclonic separator, but not many efforts have been made to study the phenomenon in detail. In this work, the upward swirling liquid film height was measured using a meter rule, while the thickness of the swirling liquid film was estimated using the void fraction that was measured with electrical resistance tomography (ERT). The experimental results show that the height attained by the upward swirling liquid film is a function of the film thickness and inlet gas velocity. The results also showed that the horizontal inlet pipe produces the highest liquid film height when compared with the inclined inlet pipe. By keeping the liquid flow rate constant and increasing gas flow rate, a maximum liquid film height was observed, afterwards, the liquid film height decreases within increasing gas flow rate.

Published in	Petroleum Science and Engineering (Volume 3, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.pse.20190302.12
Page(s)	39-45
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Keywords

Compact Separator, Swirling Liquid Film, Liquid Carryover, Separator Performance, Film Thickness, Gas Superficial Velocity

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Sunday Kanshio. (2019). On Upward Swirling Liquid Film in Gas-liquid Pipe Compact Separator. Petroleum Science and Engineering, 3(2), 39-45. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.pse.20190302.12

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Sunday Kanshio

Department of Petroleum and Gas Engineering, Baze University, Abuja, Nigeria

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