Abstract
This study investigates the effects of mixing vane (MV) attached to a grid spacer on pressure drop for air-water annular flows in a vertical circular pipe of 16 mm I.D. In order to know the effects of MV, grid spacers with or without MV were installed in the test pipe. Three types of grid spacers with MV which has four MVs inclined 20, 30 degree from the vertical flow axis (4-MV20, 4-MV30) and two MVs inclined 30 degree (2-MV30) were used. In addition, two liquid injection methods (wall and center jet injections) are adopted to control liquid droplet entrainment faction in gas core. In the experiment, pressure drop along the channel upstream and downstream from the spacer was measured with a pressure transducer. In the analysis, a correlation of the pressure drop across the spacer is newly developed based on the present data.
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