%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 (H�H), horizontal to vertical (H�V), and vertical to horizontal (V�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 horizontal�vertical (H�V) oriented elbow. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd 2020.
%L scholars13754
%A R. Khan
%A H.H. Ya
%A W. Pao
%A A. Khan
%A R. Zahoor
%A T. Ahmed
%P 695-701
%D 2020
%I Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
%T Influence of elbow orientation on solid particle erosion for multiphase flow
%O 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
%J Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering
%R 10.1007/978-981-15-5753-8₆₄