A study on un-fully developed slug flow in a vertical tube

✍ Scribed by Zhijia Yu; Shiming Liu; Xiying Li

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 230 KB
• Volume: 34
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1099-2871
• DOI: 10.1002/htj.20063

✦ Synopsis

Gas-liquid co-current vertical slug flow was studied in a vertical Plexiglas tube. Taylor bubbles and liquid slug lengths and their rising velocities were measured by means of a pair of conductivity probes under un-fully developed flow conditions. The influences of the superficial velocity of gas and liquid on slug flow parameters were examined. Using statistical analysis on the length of Taylor bubbles, the probability distribution of the length of the Taylor bubbles was obtained, which obeyed a normal distribution under a significance level of α = 0.05.