Scaling laws for gas-liquid flow in swirl vane separators
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- 发布时间：
- 2025-04-30
- 论文名称：
- Scaling laws for gas-liquid flow in swirl vane separators
- 发表刊物：
- Nuclear Engineering and Design
- 摘要：
- Laboratory tests on gas-–liquid flow in swirl vane separators are usually carried out to help establish an experimental database for separator design and performance improvement. Such model tests are generally performed in the reduced scale and not on the actual working conditions. Though great efficiency is often obtainable in the reduced model, the performance of the full-sized prototype usually cannot be well predicted. To design downscale modeltests and apply the experimental results to predict the prototype, a general relationship to correlate them is required. In this paper, the relation of the similitude-criterion concerning the pressure loss is presented by using the dimensionless analysis, and mathematical models for critical droplet diameter, grade efficiency and overall separation efficiency are established by analyzing the features of the droplet trajectory in gas swirling flow field. The essential similarity criteria accounting for pressure loss and separation efficiency are obtained, respectively. On this basis, the scaling laws which enable a comparison between the reduced model and the full-sized prototype under similar conditions are also developed. It is found that the overall separation efficiency is significantly affected by the size distribution of the small droplets, especially when the mean diameter is smaller than the critical droplet diameter.
- 合写作者：
- Li Liu, Bofeng Bai*
- 卷号：
- 298 (2016)
- 页面范围：
- 229-239
- 是否译文：
- 否
- 发表时间：
- 2016-03-01