Simulation of single phase non-Newtonian flow characteristics of heavy crude oil through horizontal pipelines. (19th March 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kumar, Ravindra; Banerjee, Shirsendu; Banik, Anirban; Bandyopadhyay, Tarun Kanti; Naiya, Tarun Kumar
• Is Part Of: Petroleum science and technology. Volume 35:Number 6(2017)
• Page Start: 615
• Page End: 624
• Publication Date: 2017-03-19
• Subjects: ANSYS Fluent 6.2 -- flow phenomena -- heavy crude oil -- horizontal pipeline -- laminar flow model -- pressure drop -- pseudo plastic; Liquid fuels -- Periodicals; Petroleum -- Periodicals; 665.505
• DOI: 10.1080/10916466.2016.1266365
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1091-6466

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The effect of diameter, velocity, and temperature on flow properties of heavy crude oil in three horizontal pipelines using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was studied. The flow characteristics were simulated by using CFD software, ANSYS Fluent 6.2. The mesh geometry of the pipelines having inner diameter of 1, 1.5, and 2 inch were created by using Gambit 2.4.6. From grid independent study, 221, 365 mesh sizes were selected for simulation. The CFD ANSYS Fluent 6.2 Solver predicted the flow phenomena, pressure, pressure drop, wall shear stress, shear strain rate, and friction factor. A good agreement between experimental and CFD simulated values was obtained.