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CFD Consulting Projects
Spray Quench Tower
Calculated the cooling, corrosion, and erosion effects of water spray using particle tracking and phase change models to capture the complex multiphase interactions on the internal surfaces of the quench tower.
Oil and Gas Pipeline (Flow Assurance)
Calculated the resulting turbulent fluid motion resulting from the mixing of black oil/natural gas and water in unusual operating conditions for undersea pipelines.
Flow Control Devices (FCD) and SAGD Liners
Predicted pressure drops and erosion in “Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage” bitumen recovery systems and production. This required modeling the multiphase bitumen-water emulsion flow through various flow control devices at downhole conditions, including the flashing effect for the SAGD extraction process.
Diesel Spray Injector
Modeled the spray injector to predict the cavitation location and rate. This was used to look at the implications on the resulting spray during the cyclic transient injection of a diesel injector.
Choke Valve
Calculates the multiphase flow rate across a choke valve at various pressures, corresponding gas oil ratios (GOR), and valve positions.
Related Ansys CFD Software Capabilities
- Particle tracking with numerous advanced physics, including breakup, collision, contact, coalescence, phase change, and combustion
- Dense multiphase liquid-liquid, liquid-gas, and granular flow
- Porous media flow for both single and multiphase flow conditions
- Multiphase phase change models, including cavitation, boiling, wall boiling, condensation, species transfer, and flashing
