Les travaux présentés dans cette thèse concernent l'étude de l'évolution des régimes d'écoulements diphasiques lors de l'évaporation progressive dans un canal horizontal. Le but est de mieux comprendre l'écoulement à l'intérieur d'un tube récepteur d'une centrale solaire à concentration à génération directe de vapeur. Cette technologie, présentée comme une amélioration des systèmes actuels pouvant permettre une réduction des coûts, consiste en la production de vapeur directement sous l'effet du rayonnement solaire concentré. La prévision de l'écoulement liquide-vapeur alors généré dans le tube est encore de nos jours difficile, c'est pourquoi le recours à la simulation numérique est intéressant. Pour cela un modèle a été développé permettant la simulation de ces écoulements, depuis le début de la création de la vapeur jusqu'à l'existence de larges poches. Basé sur le modèle diphasique VOF du code Fluent, par l'ajout de fonctions personnalisées et d'une phase dispersée supplémentaire, il permet de modéliser différents phénomènes liés au processus d'évaporation : création en paroi, transport, recondensation et création de larges structures. Ce développement a été mis en oeuvre pour simuler des écoulements en évaporation, permettant de reproduire l'évolution des régimes d'écoulement. La validation est faite grâce à une étude expérimentale de la littérature, en comparant les régimes d'écoulements obtenus pour différents débits de liquide et sous l'effet de différents flux de chaleur. Enfin, le modèle a été appliqué à la simulation de la génération de vapeur dans le tube récepteur d'une centrale solaire, mettant en évidence l'apparition et l'évolution des différents régimes d'écoulement. Au vu du peu d'installations expérimentales trouvées dans la littérature sur le sujet, et afin de valider au mieux les fonctions développées, une installation expérimentale a été conçue et dimensionnée. / This PhD thesis is about the study of two-phase flow patterns evolution during progressive evaporation in horizontal tubes. The goal is to better understand the flow regimes inside a receiver tube of a concentrated solar power plant with direct steam generation. This technological evolution allows vapor production directly inside the solar field, which can lead to coast reductions. A two-phase liquid-vapor flow occurs inside the tube, which is currently still difficult to predict. Numerical simulation is an interesting way to investigate these complex phenomena. A model has been developed in order to simulate the flow patterns, from first vapor generation to large vapor slugs. It is based on Fluent software's two-phase VOF model, to which are added user-defined functions and a new dispersed phase. Different phenomena linked to the evaporating process are taken into account: vapor creation at the wall, its transport, recondensation and large structures creation. The model is used to simulate evaporating flows, and retrieves well two-phase flow patterns evolution. Validation is made using experimental data from the literature, by comparing flow regimes obtained for different flow rates and heat fluxes. Finally numerical simulation of direct steam generation inside a concentrated solar plant receiver is conducted, clearly showing apparition and evolution of two-phase flow patterns. Because few experimental data where found in the literature concerning evaporating two-phase flows visualization, a new experimental apparatus has been conceived and sized in order to better validate our numerical results.

Pour des raisons de coûts, les tests de catalyseur mis en forme (billes, extrudés, …) en réacteur est lit fixe sont mis en œuvre dans des réacteurs de plus en plus petits alors que la taille des objets catalytiques ne change pas. L'objet de cette thèse est d'explorer les domaines où la réduction d'échelle conduit à des questionnements nouveaux en termes de physique, répétabilité, représentativité et modélisation. Le document s'articule autour de 5 chapitres : 1) une introduction détaillée du contexte avec un état de l'art sur les réacteurs à lit fixe de petite taille et l'identification des questions en suspens, 2) une réflexion autour de la nature des écoulements gaz-liquide descendant dans des lits fixes quand les forces capillaires ne sont plus négligeables, 3) la présentation d'une méthodologie et d'un critère sur un nombre minimal de grain nécessaire pour limiter les conséquences d'une distribution granulométrique en présence de limitations au transfert interne, 4) l'étude des effets d'empilements aléatoires sur la performance apparente du réacteur, d'abord par un modèle réseau de pores qui décrit assez bien les tendances observées expérimentalement mais manque de capacité de prédiction, puis par simulation numérique directe d'écoulement réactif dans des empilements de 8 cylindres qui montre que les effets d'empilements apparaissent, avec les limitations au transfert externe, quand la diffusion moléculaire transverse n'est pas assez rapide pour compenser les gradients dus à la réaction et à la convection, 5) une conclusion qui résume les critères de conception de réacteurs de tests à petite échelle, et propose des pistes de continuation du travail / In order to lower costs, testing of catalytic pellets (spheres or extrudates) is performed in ever smaller fixed bed reactors whereas catalytic pellet size is unchanged. The object of this thesis is to explore domains where downsizing leads to new questions in terms of physics, repeatability and modeling. The thesis is built in 5 chapters, 1) a detailed introduction of the context and a review of the literature on small fixed bed reactors, 2) a discussion about flow patterns in fixed beds filled with fine powder where capilary effects are not negligible, 3) a presentation of a methodology to assess the impact of sampling small number of pellets out of a non uniform set and results for internally mass transfer limited reactions, 4) a study of the effect of randomness in fixed beds first through a pore network model with a good ability to predict trends but lacking accuracy, then using direct numerical simulation of a reactive flow in fixed beds made of 8 cylinders arranged in several configuration showing that packing effects occur, concurrently with external mass transfer limitations, when cross flow diffusion is not fast enough to level out convection and reaction induced gradients, 5) a conclusion that summarizes design criteria and offers a few perspectives for R&D in downsizing

Orientador: Sergio Nascimento Bordalo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecanica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T17:08:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_ElinaldoSantos_M.pdf: 5134236 bytes, checksum: 2676ce4cb7784fed1bc7b1d622f6cc62 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: O escoamento vertical bifásico é de suma importância na produção de petróleo, uma vez que os reservatórios petrolíferos produzem óleo e gás simultaneamente, e estes devem fluir até a superfície submarina através de poços, e destes até a plataforma de produção através de dutos verticais (risers) no mar. Ao longo de seu escoamento, a mistura pode desenvolver vários padrões de fluxo. Os padrões identificados no escoamento vertical são bolhas, golfadas, transição e anular, e essas configurações físicas apresentam características próprias que exigem modelagens distintas, apresentando relações particulares de perda de carga em função da vazão. A caracterização correta do padrão, sob dadas condições operacionais, é fundamental para modelar a dinâmica do escoamento e determinar a relação entre perda de carga e vazão. Na literatura, estudos sobre o estabelecimento dos padrões de fluxo foram realizados com água e ar, e estão restritos ao caso de dutos estáticos, enquanto que os risers de produção estão em constante movimento devido à ação das ondas, das correntezas e da plataforma de produção. Sendo assim, a aplicação destes mapas nas condições de produção em águas profundas são questionáveis. O presente trabalho é importante para a produção de óleo e gás em águas profundas, porque aborda as condições de movimento de dutos verticais longos e esbeltos sob oscilações. Nestes dutos, as forças decorrentes do movimento do mar e da plataforma de produção geram sobre o duto um movimento transversal alternado. Para se estudar esse efeito, um aparato experimental foi construído em escala de laboratório, com um duto flexível de 8,0 m de comprimento e 25,4 mm de diâmetro, provido de um sistema de oscilação e de injeção de água e ar para se estudar os padrões de fluxo vertical ascendente bifásico em dutos em movimento. / Abstract: The two-phase vertical flow is of utmost importance for petroleum production, since petroleum reservoirs produce oil and gas simultaneously, which must flow up to the undersea surface through wells, and from these to the production platform through vertical pipes (risers) in the sea. Throughout the flow, the mixture of oil and gas may develop several flow patterns. The flow patterns identified in the vertical flow are bubbles, slugs, churn and annular, and these physical configurations present specific characteristics that demand distinct modeling and, presenting particular relations of head loss as function of the flow rate. The correct characterization of the flow patterns, under given operational conditions, is fundamental to the modeling of the dynamics of the flow and to determine the relation between head loss and flow rate. In the literature, studies on the establishment of the flow patterns had been carried with water and air, and were restricted to the case of static pipes, while production risers are in constant movement due to the action of waves, sea currents and the displacement of the production platform. Therefore, the application of these static maps for the conditions of production in deep waters is questionable. The present work is important for the production of oil and gas in deep waters, because it takes into account the oscillatory movement of long and slender vertical pipelines. In these pipes, the forces resulting from of the movements of the sea and the production platform generate an alternated transversal movement on the pipeline. An experimental apparatus built in the laboratory scale to study this effect, with a flexible duct of 8,0 m of length and 25,4 mm of diameter, attached to a system of oscillation and connected to an injection nozzle of water and air to study the patterns of two-phase vertical upward flow in moving pipes. / Mestrado / Explotação / Mestre em Ciências e Engenharia de Petróleo

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Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2017-12-13T12:59:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Priscila Forgiarini da Silva_.pdf: 2273220 bytes, checksum: 4943272627a06de991d941e1c6bfd457 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-12-13T12:59:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Priscila Forgiarini da Silva_.pdf: 2273220 bytes, checksum: 4943272627a06de991d941e1c6bfd457 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-11-06 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / PROSUP - Programa de Suporte à Pós-Gradução de Instituições de Ensino Particulares / Este trabalho apresenta um estudo experimental da transferência de calor e queda de pressão na ebulição do isobutano, R600a, e do propano, R290, em um tubo composto por sete mini canais paralelos, cujo diâmetro hidráulico é de 1,47 mm. Os testes em ebulição foram realizados com uma temperatura de saturação de 20 ºC, para ambos os fluidos refrigerantes e pressão de saturação de 300 kPa, para o R600a e de 840 kPa para o R290, com velocidades mássicas entre 35 e 170 kg/(m²s) e fluxos de calor na seção de testes entre 5,3 e 21 kW/m². De acordo com os testes realizados verificou-se que o coeficiente de transferência de calor, para ambos os fluidos refrigerantes, aumenta conforme o incremento do fluxo de calor e velocidade mássica. O coeficiente de transferência de calor atingiu valores entre 1 a 18 kW/(m²K) para o R290 e de 1 a 9 kW/(m²K) para o R600a. A queda de pressão aumentou com o incremento da velocidade mássica e título de vapor em todos os testes, enquanto que o fluxo de calor apresentou influência na queda de pressão apenas nas maiores velocidades mássicas. Observou-se que a queda de pressão por aceleração apresenta a menor parcela, enquanto que, a queda de pressão por atrito apresenta a maior parcela. Na comparação entre o R290 e o R600a, verificou-se que o isobutano apresenta maior queda de pressão. Também foram analisados os padrões de escoamento, sendo observados os padrões de bolhas isoladas, pistonado, agitado, anular ondulado e anular, sendo que o padrão de bolhas isoladas foi observado somente para o R290, e o padrão anular mostrou-se presente para títulos superiores a 0,4. / This work presents an experimental study of heat transfer and pressure drop in boiling of isobutane, R600a, and propane, R290, in a tube composed of seven parallel mini channels, whose hydraulic diameter is 1.47 mm. Boiling tests were performed with a saturation temperature of 20 ºC for both refrigerants and saturation pressure of 300 kPa for R600a and 840 kPa for R290, with mass velocities between 35 and 170 kg/(m²s) and heat flux in the test section between 5.3 and 21 kW/m². According to the tests performed it was verified that the heat transfer coefficient for both refrigerant fluids increases as the heat flux and mass velocity increase. The heat transfer coefficient reached values between 1-18 kW/(m²K) for the R290 and 1-9 kW/(m²K) for the R600a. The pressure drop increased with increasing mass velocity and vapor quality in all tests, while the heat flux showed influence on the pressure drop only at higher mass velocities. It was observed that the pressure drop by acceleration presents the smallest portion, while the friction presents the largest portion. In the comparison between R290 and R600a, it was found that isobutane showed a higher pressure drop. Flow patterns were also analyzed, with isolated bubble, piston, agitated, annular and annular bubble patterns being observed, and the isolated bubble pattern was observed only for R290, and the annular pattern was present for quality higher than 0.4.

A vibração induzida por escoamento é parte intrínseca do transporte de fluidos. Por exemplo, na indústria de petróleo e gás esse fenômeno pode ser encontrado em tubulações, tanto no setor upstream, quando downstream. Essas vibrações são produto das forças geradas pelo escoamento e, portanto, carregam informações sobre sua fenomenologia. No caso de escoamento bifásico em tubo, resultados experimentais indicam forte influência da velocidade da mistura, fração de vazio e padrão de escoamento no comportamento dinâmico da estrutura. Contudo, pouco foi feito na tentativa de obter informações do escoamento a partir da reposta estrutural. Assim, o objetivo do presente estudo é desenvolver métodos para a previsão dos parâmetros do escoamento baseados na resposta de um tubo submetido a escoamento bifásico. Foi conduzido um trabalho experimental da vibração induzida por diversos padrões gás-líquido numa tubulação horizontal (PVC Ø3/4\'\') duplamente engastada, com água e ar como fluidos de trabalho. A partir de uma abordagem analítica, corroborada com resultados experimentais para escoamento monofásico e bifásico, estabelece-se a existência de uma relação, de natureza quadrática, entre a velocidade de atrito e o desvio padrão da aceleração. Dado que a velocidade de atrito é função do fator de atrito bifásico, um método para a sua previsão é desenvolvido. Ele prevê de maneira precisa os dados coletados; todos eles com erro percentual menor do que 30%. O método foi comparado também com dados experimentais e modelos da literatura, mostrando boa concordância. Além disso, apresenta-se uma relação entre a frequência pico da resposta e a fração de vazio homogênea. No fim, são apresentados: (i) um método de identificação de escoamento pistonado, baseado na superposição dos mecanismos de vibração por turbulência e intermitente, com desempenho mínimo de 81.8%; (ii) um método experimental para determinação da velocidade da mistura (J) e fração de vazio homogênea (β). Os melhores resultados são obtidos para os padrões disperso e pistonado, prevendo adequadamente os parâmetros J e β com erro percentual absoluto médio de 24.1% e 20.65%, respectivamente. / Flow-induced vibration is intrinsic to piping problems. For example, in the oil and gas industry the FIV phenomenon can be found in pipe flow both in upstream and downstream applications. The structural vibration response contains information about the flow phenomenology. In the case of two-phase pipe flow, experimental results show a strong influence of mixture velocity, void fraction and flow pattern on pipe structural dynamics. However, efforts to obtain information of the flow from pipe response have been scanty. The goal of this study is to develop two-phase flow parameters predictive methods based on the structural pipe response. An experimental study of flow-induced vibration was carried out for several flow patterns in a clamp-clamp straight pipe (PVC Ø3/4\'\'), with air and water as working fluids. From an analytical approach, a quadratic relationship between shear velocity and standard deviation of acceleration is proposed and validated against the experimental data of single and two-phase flow. Since the shear velocity depends on the friction factor, a method to predict two-phase friction factor is presented. The method predicts accurately our experimental data with a mean absolute error up to 30%. Good agreement was also found when it was compared with some models and experimental data from the literature. Furthermore, an expression to correlate peak frequency and homogeneous void fraction as a function of added mass is offered. Finally, we present: (i) a slug flow identification technique based on the superposition of the turbulence and intermittent flow-induced vibration mechanisms, with performance of 81.8% and (ii) an experimental methodology to estimate mixture velocity (J) and homogeneous void fraction (β). The latter method shows better agreement for dispersed and slug flow-patterns, predicting J and β with a mean absolute error of 24.1% e 20.65%, respectively.

<p>The coupled transport of water and heat, involving freezing and thawing, in the road structure and its immediate environment is important to consider for optimal design and maintenance of roads and when assessing solute transport, of e.g. de-icing salt, from roads. The objective of this study was to develop mechanistic models, and measurement techniques, suitable to describe and understand water flow and heat flux in road structures exposed to a cold climate. </p><p>Freezing and thawing was accounted for by implementing new routines in two numerical models (HYDRUS1D/2D). The sensitivity of the model output to changes in parameter values and operational hydrological data was investigated by uncertainty and sensitivity analyses. The effect of rainfall event characteristics and asphalt fractures on the subsurface flow pattern was investigated by scenario modelling. The performance of water content reflectometers (WCR), measuring water content, was evaluated using measurements in two road structure materials. A numerical model was used to simulate WCR sensor response. The freezing/thawing routines were stable and provided results in agreement with laboratory measurements. Frost depth, thawing period, and freezing-induced water redistribution in a model road was greatly affected by groundwater level and type of subgrade. The simulated subsurface flow patterns corresponded well with published field observations. A new method was successful in enabling the application of time domain reflectometer (TDR) calibration equations to WCR output. The observed distortion in sampling volume for one of the road materials could be explained by the WCR sensor numerical model. Soil physical, hydrological, and hydraulic modules proved successful in simulating the coupled transport of water and heat in and on the road structure. It was demonstrated in this thesis that numerical models can improve the interpretation and explanation of measurements. The HYDRUS model was an accurate and pedagogical tool, clearly useful in road design and management.</p>

The coupled transport of water and heat, involving freezing and thawing, in the road structure and its immediate environment is important to consider for optimal design and maintenance of roads and when assessing solute transport, of e.g. de-icing salt, from roads. The objective of this study was to develop mechanistic models, and measurement techniques, suitable to describe and understand water flow and heat flux in road structures exposed to a cold climate. Freezing and thawing was accounted for by implementing new routines in two numerical models (HYDRUS1D/2D). The sensitivity of the model output to changes in parameter values and operational hydrological data was investigated by uncertainty and sensitivity analyses. The effect of rainfall event characteristics and asphalt fractures on the subsurface flow pattern was investigated by scenario modelling. The performance of water content reflectometers (WCR), measuring water content, was evaluated using measurements in two road structure materials. A numerical model was used to simulate WCR sensor response. The freezing/thawing routines were stable and provided results in agreement with laboratory measurements. Frost depth, thawing period, and freezing-induced water redistribution in a model road was greatly affected by groundwater level and type of subgrade. The simulated subsurface flow patterns corresponded well with published field observations. A new method was successful in enabling the application of time domain reflectometer (TDR) calibration equations to WCR output. The observed distortion in sampling volume for one of the road materials could be explained by the WCR sensor numerical model. Soil physical, hydrological, and hydraulic modules proved successful in simulating the coupled transport of water and heat in and on the road structure. It was demonstrated in this thesis that numerical models can improve the interpretation and explanation of measurements. The HYDRUS model was an accurate and pedagogical tool, clearly useful in road design and management.

In the first part of this dissertation, the phenomenon of self-sustained pressure os-cillations due to the flow past a circular, axisymmetric cavity, associated with inline gate valves, was investigated. In many engineering applications, such as flows through open gate valves, there exists potential for coupling between the vortex shedding from the up-stream edge of the cavity and a diametral mode of the acoustic pressure fluctuations. The effects of the internal pipe geometry immediately upstream and downstream of the shal-low cavity on the characteristics of partially trapped diametral acoustic modes were in-vestigated numerically and experimentally on a scaled model of a gate valve mounted in a pipeline that contained convergence-divergence sections in the vicinity of the valve. The resonant response of the system corresponded to the second acoustic diametral mode of the cavity. Excitation of the dominant acoustic mode was accompanied by pressure oscillations, and, in addition to that, as the angle of the converging-diverging section of the main pipeline in the vicinity of the cavity increased, the trapped behavior of the acoustic diametral modes diminished, and additional antinodes of the acoustic pressure wave were observed in the main pipeline. In addition to that, the effect of shallow chamfers, introduced at the upstream and/or downstream cavity edges, was investigated in the experimental system that con-tained a deep, circular, axisymmetric cavity. Through the measurements of unsteady pressure and associated acoustic mode shapes, which were calculated numerically for several representative cases of the internal cavity geometry, it was possible to identify the configuration that corresponded to the most efficient noise suppression. This arrangement also allowed calculation of the azimuthal orientation of the acoustic modes, which were classified as stationary, partially spinning or spinning. Introduction of shallow chamfers at the upstream and the downstream edges of the cavity resulted in changes of azimuthal orientation and spinning behaviour of the acoustic modes. In addition, introduction of splitter plates in the cavity led to pronounced change in the spatial orientation and the spinning behaviour of the acoustic modes. The short splitter plates changed the behaviour of the dominant acoustic modes from partially spinning to stationary, while the long split-ter plates enforced the stationary behaviour across all resonant acoustic modes. Finally, the evolution of fully turbulent, acoustically coupled shear layers that form across deep, axisymmetric cavities and the effects of geometric modifications of the cavity edges on the separated flow structure were investigated using digital particle image velocimetry (PIV). Instantaneous, time- and phase-averaged patterns of vorticity pro-vided insight into the flow physics during flow tone generation and noise suppression by the geometric modifications. In particular, the first mode of the shear layer oscillations was significantly affected by shallow chamfers located at the upstream and, to a lesser degree, the downstream edges of the cavity. In the second part of the dissertation, the performance of aortic heart valve pros-thesis was assessed in geometries of the aortic root associated with certain types of valve diseases, such as aortic valve stenosis and aortic valve insufficiency. The control case that corresponds to the aortic root of a patient without valve disease was used as a reference. By varying the aortic root geometry, it was possible to investigate corresponding changes in the levels of Reynolds shear stress and establish the possibility of platelet activation and, as a result of that, the formation of blood clots. / Graduate / 0541 / 0546 / 0548 / 0986 / alexbn024@gmail.com

In the first part of this dissertation, the phenomenon of self-sustained pressure os-cillations due to the flow past a circular, axisymmetric cavity, associated with inline gate valves, was investigated. In many engineering applications, such as flows through open gate valves, there exists potential for coupling between the vortex shedding from the up-stream edge of the cavity and a diametral mode of the acoustic pressure fluctuations. The effects of the internal pipe geometry immediately upstream and downstream of the shal-low cavity on the characteristics of partially trapped diametral acoustic modes were in-vestigated numerically and experimentally on a scaled model of a gate valve mounted in a pipeline that contained convergence-divergence sections in the vicinity of the valve. The resonant response of the system corresponded to the second acoustic diametral mode of the cavity. Excitation of the dominant acoustic mode was accompanied by pressure oscillations, and, in addition to that, as the angle of the converging-diverging section of the main pipeline in the vicinity of the cavity increased, the trapped behavior of the acoustic diametral modes diminished, and additional antinodes of the acoustic pressure wave were observed in the main pipeline. In addition to that, the effect of shallow chamfers, introduced at the upstream and/or downstream cavity edges, was investigated in the experimental system that con-tained a deep, circular, axisymmetric cavity. Through the measurements of unsteady pressure and associated acoustic mode shapes, which were calculated numerically for several representative cases of the internal cavity geometry, it was possible to identify the configuration that corresponded to the most efficient noise suppression. This arrangement also allowed calculation of the azimuthal orientation of the acoustic modes, which were classified as stationary, partially spinning or spinning. Introduction of shallow chamfers at the upstream and the downstream edges of the cavity resulted in changes of azimuthal orientation and spinning behaviour of the acoustic modes. In addition, introduction of splitter plates in the cavity led to pronounced change in the spatial orientation and the spinning behaviour of the acoustic modes. The short splitter plates changed the behaviour of the dominant acoustic modes from partially spinning to stationary, while the long split-ter plates enforced the stationary behaviour across all resonant acoustic modes. Finally, the evolution of fully turbulent, acoustically coupled shear layers that form across deep, axisymmetric cavities and the effects of geometric modifications of the cavity edges on the separated flow structure were investigated using digital particle image velocimetry (PIV). Instantaneous, time- and phase-averaged patterns of vorticity pro-vided insight into the flow physics during flow tone generation and noise suppression by the geometric modifications. In particular, the first mode of the shear layer oscillations was significantly affected by shallow chamfers located at the upstream and, to a lesser degree, the downstream edges of the cavity. In the second part of the dissertation, the performance of aortic heart valve pros-thesis was assessed in geometries of the aortic root associated with certain types of valve diseases, such as aortic valve stenosis and aortic valve insufficiency. The control case that corresponds to the aortic root of a patient without valve disease was used as a reference. By varying the aortic root geometry, it was possible to investigate corresponding changes in the levels of Reynolds shear stress and establish the possibility of platelet activation and, as a result of that, the formation of blood clots. / Graduate / 0541 / 0546 / 0548 / 0986 / alexbn024@gmail.com