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Improvement of airlift pump performance based on the exergy analysis

Ghanbarzadeh, S ; Sharif University of Technology | 2010

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. Publisher: Aabo Akademi University , 2010
  3. Abstract:
  4. Airlift systems (ALS) are widely used in various fields such as petroleum and oil extracting industries. As gas-liquid two phase flow is the main part of the flow through these systems, the analysis of such systems accompanies with problems of two phase flow modeling. However, exergy analysis could be a simple method for modeling of airlift systems. In the present study, an analytical model based on thermodynamic principles has been implemented on each phase to analyze the performance of airlift systems. The experimental data were collected at a large scale multiphase flow test rig for the airlift pump with 6m height and diameter of 50 mm. Finally, irreversibility terms, energy destruction, flow availability and entropy generation were estimated by this method
  5. Keywords:
  6. Airlift system ; Multiphase flow ; Availability ; Entropy ; Environmental impact ; Optimization ; Thermodynamics ; Air-lift pumps ; Air-lift systems ; Energy destruction ; Entropy generation ; Exergy Analysis ; Gas-liquid two-phase flow ; Oil extracting ; Two phase flow model ; Exergy
  7. Source: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation, and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems, ECOS 2010, 14 June 2010 through 17 June 2010, Lausanne ; Volume 1 , 2010 , Pages 489-497 ; 9781456303006 (ISBN)