1999
DOI: 10.1016/s0142-727x(99)00051-x
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Effect of air injection method on the performance of an air lift pump

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
2
1
1

Citation Types

2
47
0
1

Year Published

2007
2007
2022
2022

Publication Types

Select...
8

Relationship

0
8

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 61 publications
(50 citation statements)
references
References 16 publications
2
47
0
1
Order By: Relevance
“…As air injected at the bottom of the riser pipe, the hydrostatic weight of the gas-liquid mixture inside the riser pipe becomes less than the surrounding liquid leading the total mixture to rise upwards through the discharge pipe. The pump has been also used for seawater samples collection (Tokar et al (1981)), underwater mining (Yoshinaga, and Sato (1996)), and in many applications including nuclear, oil production, and petrochemical processes for pumping corrosive, toxic or explosive materials (Khalil et al, (1999)). In addition, it has various implementations in aerating aquafarming pools (Parker and Suttle (1987) and Wurts et al (1994)).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As air injected at the bottom of the riser pipe, the hydrostatic weight of the gas-liquid mixture inside the riser pipe becomes less than the surrounding liquid leading the total mixture to rise upwards through the discharge pipe. The pump has been also used for seawater samples collection (Tokar et al (1981)), underwater mining (Yoshinaga, and Sato (1996)), and in many applications including nuclear, oil production, and petrochemical processes for pumping corrosive, toxic or explosive materials (Khalil et al, (1999)). In addition, it has various implementations in aerating aquafarming pools (Parker and Suttle (1987) and Wurts et al (1994)).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It has an edge over submerged mechanical pumps as it has no moving parts in contact with the fluid, hence it is simple in design and construction and requires minimal maintenance. Besides finding wide application in underground petroleum and water recovery, the air lift pump has also been used to handle hazardous or radioactive process fluids such as in nuclear fuel reprocessing plants, archeological artifact recovery, coal recovery in mine shafts, deep sea mining as well as incorporated into the design of bioreactors (Clark and Dabolt, 1986~ Zenz, 1993~ Tramba et al, 1995Lawniczak et al, 1999;Khalil et al, 1999). Two simple configurations of the air lift pump are depicted as follows: The submergence S is measured from the air or gas injector exit level to the free surface level of the pumping fluid.…”
Section: General Descriptionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This means that the total cross-sectional area for air flow on the 12-port injector (60.80 mm 2 ) is three times that of the 4-port injector (20.27 mm 2 ). On the other hand, other investigators (Morrison et ai., 1987;Khalil et al, 1999) who studied the effect of differing number of air ports on air lift pumping performance maintained the same total crosssectional area of the air ports i.e. the size of the air ports were reduced the larger the number of holes used.…”
Section: Effect Of Different Injectorsmentioning
confidence: 99%
See 1 more Smart Citation
“…However, decreasing the total orifice area caused an increase in the pressure loss and accordingly reduced the pump efficiency. The effects of air-injection method on the airlift pump performance were experimentally investigated by Mansour and Khalil [2] and by Khalil et al [3]. In their experimental study, they tested different injection designs under similar operating conditions.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%