%0 Journal Article %@ 21954356 %A Khan, R. %A Ya, H.H. %A Pao, W. %A Khan, A. %A Zahoor, R. %A Ahmed, T. %D 2020 %F scholars:13754 %I Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH %J Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering %P 695-701 %R 10.1007/978-981-15-5753-8₆₄ %T Influence of elbow orientation on solid particle erosion for multiphase flow %U https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/13754/ %X Erosive wear of equipment in hydrocarbon and mineral processing pipelines can occur under multiphase flow. The 90° elbow configuration is a common flow changing device in the pipeline network used to redirect the flow direction. This paper highlights a CFD approach to study erosion-induced damage in 90° elbows due to the transportation of sand particles in the carrier phase. A discrete phase modeling (DPM) technique is employed to decouple the relationship of elbow orientation and erosion-induced damage in 90° elbows. The computational geometry and simulation parameters consist of horizontal to horizontal (Hâ��H), horizontal to vertical (Hâ��V), and vertical to horizontal (Vâ��H) orientated 90° elbows with 50.8 mm inner diameter and fine sand of 50 μm size entertains in a liquid phase at 5 m/s flow velocity. The high erosion zones have been located near the outlet of the 90° elbow under fine particle impact with a maximum erosion rate of 5.5 mm/year in horizontalâ��vertical (Hâ��V) oriented elbow. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd 2020. %Z cited By 0; Conference of 5th International Conference on Mechanical, Manufacturing and Plant Engineering, ICMMPE 2019 ; Conference Date: 19 November 2019 Through 21 November 2019; Conference Code:244879