Abstract
This paper presents a model for predicting the contaminated mixing volume arising in pipeline batch transfers without physical separators. The proposed technique represents an improvement over the existing methods since it takes into account time-dependent flow rates and accurate concentration-varying axial dispersion coefficients. The governing equation of the model forms a nonlinear boundary-value problem that is solved by a finite element method coupled to the Newton’s method. A comparison among the theoretical predictions of this method, a field test, and other classical procedures show that the proposed method exhibits the best estimate over the whole range of admissible concentrations investigated.
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