Experimental study of grease flow in pipelines: Wall slip and air entrainment effects

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 805-817

  Delgado, M A ^a   Franco, J M ^a   Partal, P ^a   Gallegos, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Laminar flow; Lubricating greases; Multiphase flow; Non Newtonian fluids; Rheology; Wall slip

Indexed keywords

AIR ENTRAINMENT; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); DRAG; FRICTION; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; PIPE FLOW; PRESSURE DROP; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS; VISCOUS FLOW; WALL FLOW;

AIR INTERMITTENT FLOWS; GREASE FLOW; PRESSURE DROP GRADIENT; WALL SLIP;

LUBRICATING GREASES;

ENTRAINMENT; GREASE; LAMINAR FLOW; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PIPELINE; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 14844355597     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2004.09.003     Document Type: Article

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