Supersonic swirling characteristics of natural gas in convergent-divergent nozzles

Petroleum Science

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 114-119

  Wen, Chuang ^a   Cao, Xuewen ^a   Yang, Yan ^a   Zhang, Jing ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

convergent divergent nozzle; natural gas separation; numerical calculation; supersonic; Swirling flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951709564     PISSN: 16725107     EISSN: 19958226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12182-011-0123-3     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Alferov V I, Baguirov L A, Feygin V I, et al. Method and apparatus for liquefying a gas. European Patent: EP1131588. February 25, 2004.
2. Alfyorov V, Bagirov L, Dmitriev L, et al. Supersonic nozzle efficiently separates natural gas components. Oil & Gas Journal. 2005. 5(103): 53-58.
3. Betting M, van Holten T and van Veen J M. Nozzle for supersonic gas flow and an inertia separator. US Patent: 6524368. February 25, 2003.
4. Betting M and Epsom H D. Supersonic separator gains market acceptance. World Oil. 2007. 228(4): 197-200.
5. Boerner C J, Sparrow E M and Scott C J. Compressible swirling flow through convergent-divergent nozzles. Heat and Mass Transfer. 1972. 5(2): 101-115.
6. Brouwer J M and Epsom H D. Twister supersonic gas conditioning for unmanned platforms and subsea gas processing. Paper SPE 83977 presented at the Proceedings of the Offshore Europe Conference, 2-5 September 2003, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
7. Cao X W, Chen L, Lin Z H, et al. The nozzle used in supersonic swirling separators. Natural Gas Industry. 2007. 27(7): 112-114 (in Chinese).
8. Jassim E, Abdi M A and Muzychka Y. Computational fluid dynamics study for flow of natural gas through high-pressure supersonic nozzles: Part 1. Real gas effects and shockwave. Petroleum Science and Technology. 2008a. 26(15): 1757-1772.
9. Jassim E, Abdi M A and Muzychka Y. Computational fluid dynamics study for flow of natural gas through high-pressure supersonic nozzles: Part 2. Nozzle geometry and vorticity. Petroleum Science and Technology. 2008b. 26(15): 1773-1785.
10. Jiang W M, Liu Z L, Liu H W, et al. Numerical simulation of a two-component mixture in one-dimension supersonic separator. Acta Petrolei Sinica (Petroleum Processing Section). 2008a. 24(6): 697-701 (in Chinese).
11. Jiang W M, Liu Z L, Liu H W, et al. Two dimensional simulation and analysis of the fiow in a supersonic separator. Journal of Engineering Thermophysics. 2008b. 29(12): 2119-2121 (in Chinese).
12. Karimi A and Abdi M A. Selective dehydration of high-pressure natural gas using supersonic nozzles. Chemical Engineering and Processing. 2009. 48(1): 560-568.
13. Liu H W, Liu Z L, Feng Y X, et al. Characteristic of a supersonic swirling dehydration system of natural gas. Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering. 2005. 13(1): 9-12.
14. Man H C, Duan J and Yue T M. Design and characteristic analysis of supersonic nozzle for high pressure laser cutting. Journal of Materials Processing Technology. 1997. 63: 217-222.
15. Okimoto F and Brouwer J M. Supersonic gas conditioning. World Oil. 2002. 223(8): 89-91.
16. Patankar S V. Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1980. 131-134.
17. Patankar S V and Spalding D B. A calculation procedure for heat, mass and momentum transfer in three-dimensional parabolic flows. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 1972. 15(10): 1787-1806.
18. Pope S B. Turbulent Flows. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. 382-383.
19. Wen C, Cao X W and Wu L H. Structure design and numerical simulation of a novel supersonic swirling separator. Journal of China University of Petroleum (Edition of Natural Science). 2010. 34(4): 119-122.