화학공학소재연구정보센터
Chemical Engineering Communications, Vol.196, No.6, 746-753, 2009
A SIMPLE MODEL FOR PREDICTING THE VOID FRACTION OF GAS/NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID INTERMITTENT FLOWS IN UPWARD INCLINED PIPES
In this work, a simple correlation, which incorporates the mixture velocity, drift velocity, and the correction factor of Farooqi and Richardson, was proposed to predict the void fraction of gas/non-Newtonian intermittent flow in upward inclined pipes. The correlation was based on 352 data points covering a wide range of flow rates for different CMC solutions at diverse angles. A good agreement was obtained between the predicted and experimental results. These results substantiated the general validity of the model presented for gas/non-Newtonian two-phase intermittent flows.