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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 92, 2015
EFM14 – Experimental Fluid Mechanics 2014
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Article Number | 02111 | |
Number of page(s) | 8 | |
Section | Contributions | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159202111 | |
Published online | 06 May 2015 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159202111
Experimental investigation of coarse particle conveying in pipes
Institute of Hydrodynamics AS CR, v. v. i., Pod Patankou 30/5, Prague 6, Czech Republic
a Corresponding author: vlasak@ih.cas.cz
Published online: 6 May 2015
The advanced knowledge of particle-water mixture flow behaviour is important for safe, reliable, and economical design and operation of the freight pipelines. The effect of the mixture velocity and concentration on the coarse particle – water mixtures flow behaviour was experimentally investigated on an experimental pipe loop of inner diameter D = 100 mm with horizontal, vertical, and inclined pipe sections. Narrow particle size distribution basalt pebbles were used as model of coarse-grained solid particles. The radiometric method was used to measure particle concentration distribution in pipe cross-section. Mixture flow behaviour and particles motion along the pipe invert were studied in a pipe viewing section. The study revealed that the coarse particlewater mixtures in the horizontal and inclined pipe sections were significantly stratified. The particles moved principally in a layer close to the pipe invert. However, for higher and moderate flow velocities the particles moved also in the central part of the pipe cross-section, and particle saltation was found to be dominant mode of particle conveying.
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