Characteristics of interfacial profiles in upward and downward gas-liquid two-phase plug flow

✍ Scribed by Sekoguchi, Kotohiko ;Mori, Koji ;Kaji, Masuo ;Miwa, Megumi ;Nakazatomi, Masao ;Shimizu, Hideo

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 403 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0096-0802
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6556(1996)25:8<568::aid-htj6>3.0.co;2-v

✦ Synopsis

Gas-liquid interfacial profiles in plug flow for both upward and downward flows were obtained using semi-supermultiple point-electrode probes, comprising 67 sensing tips arranged on a tube diameter. Typical interfacial profiles are demonstrated for both flows. Close inspection of the profiles reveals that four zones exist in a pair of gas and liquid slugs for upward plug flow and a high slip velocity region in downward plug flow. The lengths of the swelling liquid front zone and the wake zone were determined. The length of the wake zone strongly depends on the relative velocity between the liquid film around the gas slug and the liquid phase in the liquid slug. Characteristic distributions of bubbles within liquid slugs were found, i.e., three types of radial distributions of void fraction, namely saddle-shaped, trapezoidal and bulletshaped distributions, exist for upward flow. The two types for downward flow exclude the saddle-shaped distribution.