Abstract
Experimental data are presented for the gas velocity, the void fraction, and the pressure drop of upward co-current air–water two-phase flow through vertical miniature triangular channels having hydraulic diameters of 0.866, 1.443 and 2.886 mm, with superficial air velocity ranging from j g=0.1 to 100 m/s and superficial water velocity ranging from j l=0.08 to 6 m/s. A correlation is developed for predicting the pressure drops of single-phase laminar and turbulent flow through the miniature triangular channels based on that proposed by Churchill (S.W. Churchill, Friction-factor equation spans all fluid flow regimes, Chem. Eng. 84(24) (1977) 91–92) for circular tubes. This work shows that the pressure drop of two-phase flow in the miniature triangular channels can be well predicted by the Lockhart–Martinelli correlation (R.W. Lockhart, R.C. Martinelli, Proposed correlation of data for isothermal two-phase two-component flow in pipes, Chem. Eng. Prog. 45 (1949) 39–48) if the newly proposed friction factor correlation for single-phase flow is adopted.
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