Experimental investigation of the location of maximum erosive wear damage in elbows

Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 0113031-0113037

  Mazumder, Quamrul H ^a   Shirazi, Siamack A ^b   McLaury, Brenton ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FLINT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

Annular flow; Elbow; Erosion; Multiphase flow; Penetration rate; Slug flow; Solid particle erosion; Wear

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EROSION BEHAVIOR; EROSION DAMAGE; EROSION PATTERNS; EROSIVE WEAR; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLUID HANDLING; FLUID PROPERTIES; FLUID VELOCITIES; HORIZONTAL FLOW (HF); IMPACT ANGLES; MASS LOSSES; MATE RIAL PROPERTIES; MATERIAL REMOVALS; METAL SURFACES; PARTICLE DENSITIES; PARTICLE IMPACTS; SOLID PARTICLE EROSION; SOLID PARTICLES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF; SPECIFIC LOCATION; THICKNESS LOSS; VERTICAL FLOW (VF);

ASTROPHYSICS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; FLUIDS; LOCATION; METAL RECOVERY; METALS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL MECHANICS; SURFACES;

EROSION;

EID: 47049090840     PISSN: 00949930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2826426     Document Type: Article

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