A comprehensive review of solid particle erosion modeling for oil and gas wells and pipelines applications

Parsi, Mazdak; Najmi, Kamyar; Najafifard, Fardis; Hassani, Shokrollah; McLaury, Brenton S.; Shirazi, Siamack A.

doi:10.1016/j.jngse.2014.10.001

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“…Approaches that involve mapping of the inter-relationship between erosion corrosion damage and environmental parameters, have also been utilised [7,8]. Another desirable approach involves mathematical modelling of corrosive wear which often makes use of CFD packages to predict flow regimes [9] [10]. Although there have been some interesting studies, for instance focusing on modelling damage immediately under a perpendicularly-impinging slurry [11], there are formidable obstacles to this type of approach when dealing with such a complex phenomenon.…”

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Enhanced approach of assessing the corrosive wear of engineering materials under impingement

Giourntas

Hodgkiess²,

Galloway

2015

Wear

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Corrosive wear phenomena are apparent in hydraulic machinery that handle slurries. This study focuses on the development of an integrated methodology of material assessment that is employed to underst under impinging slurry. The technique involves mass loss measurements and post-test analysis of the surface, which comprises measurement of wear scar depths and volumes, that yield the quantification of the various material degradation processes that occur directly under, and adjacent to, the impinging jet. A medium carbon steel and a stainless steel have been investigated, since they exhibit different corrosive wear behaviour.

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Enhanced approach of assessing the corrosive wear of engineering materials under impingement

Giourntas

Hodgkiess²,

Galloway

2015

Wear

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“…Many studies on the recognition of flow patterns and their transition boundaries are available in literature [52][53][54]. Flow pattern is important to accurately predict the liquid holdup and pressure gradient in pipe flow.…”

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“…However, for a practical application, the maximum gas void fraction below 0.25 is commonly used for vertical co-current pipe flow. Slug flow regime corresponds to the steady alternating flow of gas pockets (Taylor bubble) and liquid slugs [53] at even higher gas flow rates (see Figure 7b), where Taylor bubbles occupy the entire cross section of the pipe except for a thin liquid film on the wall. Slug flow can be considered as steady-state flow pattern since its slug length, frequency, translational velocity etc.…”

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A Review of Experiments and Modeling of Gas-Liquid Flow in Electrical Submersible Pumps

Zhu

Zhang

2018

Energies

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As the second most widely used artificial lift method in petroleum production (and first in produced amount), electrical submersible pump (ESP) maintains or increases flow rate by converting kinetic energy to hydraulic pressure of hydrocarbon fluids. To facilitate its optimal working conditions, an ESP has to be operated within a narrow application window. Issues like gas involvement, changing production rate and high oil viscosity, greatly impede ESP boosting pressure. Previous experimental studies showed that the presence of gas would cause ESP hydraulic head degradation. The flow behaviors inside ESPs under gassy conditions, such as pressure surging and gas pockets, further deteriorate ESP pressure boosting ability. Therefore, it is important to know what parameters govern the gas-liquid flow structure inside a rotating ESP and how it can be modeled. This paper presents a comprehensive review on the key factors that affect ESP performance under gassy flow conditions. Furthermore, the empirical and mechanistic models for predicting ESP pressure increment are discussed. The computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-based modeling approach for studying the multiphase flow in a rotating ESP is explained as well. The closure relationships that are critical to both mechanistic and numerical models are reviewed, which are helpful for further development of more accurate models for predicting ESP gas-liquid flow behaviors.

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“…Usually, numerical investigations concerning solid particle erosion involve dilute flows, and they predict the loss of material by simulating the fluid-particle flow using an EulerianLagrangian two-phase model, in which a Lagrangian equation of motion is solved for a number of computational particles, followed by the application of a single-particle erosion model to each particle-wall impingement (Parsi et al, 2014).…”

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“…the velocity at which mass loss occurs. The monotonically increasing trend of erosion versus the inclination angle is typical of brittle materials (Parsi et al, 2014) and, in the absence of specific data for concrete other than the experiments of Liu et al (2012), as a first step a linear approximation was assumed.…”

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A combined CFD-experimental method for abrasive erosion testing of concrete

Messa

Branco

Filho

et al. 2017

Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics

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Serious damage may occur to concrete hydraulic structures, such as water galleries, spillways, and stilling basins, due to the abrasive erosion caused by the presence of solid particles in the flow. This underlines the importance of being capable in providing characterization of the concrete from the point of view of its vulnerability to abrasive erosion, in order to improve the design of the structure and the material selection. Nevertheless, the existing apparatus for concrete abrasive erosion testing are either far from allowing realistic simulation of the actual environment in which this phenomenon occurs, or show a large degree of complexity and cost. An alternative method has been developed with the aid of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). CFD was first employed to verify the effectiveness of a new laboratory equipment. Afterwards, a parameter has been introduced which, by successful comparison against preliminary experiments, proved suitable to quantify the effect of the fluid dynamic conditions on the concrete abrasive erosion, thereby opening the way to CFD-based customization of the apparatus. In the future, the synergy of numerical and physical modelling will allow developing predictive models for concrete erosion, making it possible to reliably simulate real structures.

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A comprehensive review of solid particle erosion modeling for oil and gas wells and pipelines applications

Cited by 412 publications

References 101 publications

Enhanced approach of assessing the corrosive wear of engineering materials under impingement

Enhanced approach of assessing the corrosive wear of engineering materials under impingement

A Review of Experiments and Modeling of Gas-Liquid Flow in Electrical Submersible Pumps

A combined CFD-experimental method for abrasive erosion testing of concrete

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