TY - JOUR
T1 - Development of a design methodology for hydraulic pipelines carrying rectangular capsules
AU - Asim, Taimoor
AU - Mishra, Rakesh
AU - Abushaala, Sufyan
AU - Jain, Anuj
PY - 2016/10
Y1 - 2016/10
N2 - The scarcity of fossil fuels is affecting the efficiency of established modes of cargo transport within the transportation industry. Efforts have been made to develop innovative modes of transport that can be adopted for economic and environmental friendly operating systems. Solid material, for instance, can be packed in rectangular containers (commonly known as capsules), which can then be transported in different concentrations very effectively using the fluid energy in pipelines. For economical and efficient design of such systems, both the local flow characteristics and the global performance parameters need to be carefully investigated. Published literature is severely limited in establishing the effects of local flow features on system characteristics of Hydraulic Capsule Pipelines (HCPs). The present study focuses on using a well validated Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tool to numerically simulate the solid-liquid mixture flow in both on-shore and off-shore HCPs applications including bends. Discrete Phase Modelling (DPM) has been employed to calculate the velocity of the rectangular capsules. Numerical predictions have been used to develop novel semi-empirical prediction models for pressure drop in HCPs, which have then been embedded into a robust and user-friendly pipeline optimisation methodology based on Least-Cost Principle.
AB - The scarcity of fossil fuels is affecting the efficiency of established modes of cargo transport within the transportation industry. Efforts have been made to develop innovative modes of transport that can be adopted for economic and environmental friendly operating systems. Solid material, for instance, can be packed in rectangular containers (commonly known as capsules), which can then be transported in different concentrations very effectively using the fluid energy in pipelines. For economical and efficient design of such systems, both the local flow characteristics and the global performance parameters need to be carefully investigated. Published literature is severely limited in establishing the effects of local flow features on system characteristics of Hydraulic Capsule Pipelines (HCPs). The present study focuses on using a well validated Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tool to numerically simulate the solid-liquid mixture flow in both on-shore and off-shore HCPs applications including bends. Discrete Phase Modelling (DPM) has been employed to calculate the velocity of the rectangular capsules. Numerical predictions have been used to develop novel semi-empirical prediction models for pressure drop in HCPs, which have then been embedded into a robust and user-friendly pipeline optimisation methodology based on Least-Cost Principle.
KW - Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
KW - Discrete Phase Modelling (DPM)
KW - Hydraulic Capsule Pipeline (HCP)
KW - Least-cost principle
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84982295644&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijpvp.2016.07.007
DO - 10.1016/j.ijpvp.2016.07.007
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84982295644
VL - 146
SP - 111
EP - 128
JO - Res mechanica
JF - Res mechanica
SN - 0308-0161
ER -