Abstract
Water accumulation at the bottom of the product oil pipeline will lead to corrosion damage to the pipeline. The study on water carrying laws of refined oil could provide a reference for the safe operation of the pipeline. In this paper, the actual size of Lanzhou–Jiangyou section of Lanzhou–Chengdu–Chongqing pipeline was taken as the pipeline size. The volume of fluid (VOF) model of oil-water two-phase flow based on large eddy simulation (LES) was established. The numerical simulation of the water-carrying behavior of the product oil in the inclined pipeline was carried out. The LES-based two-phase flow model can capture the characteristics of stratified flow, wavy stratified flow, and dispersed flow under various operating conditions. The model was applied to simulate the water carrying process under various oil inlet velocities and the inclined pipe angles. The results show that as the pipeline inclined angle is 10~20° and the oil inlet velocity is 0.66 m/s, the flow patterns in the pipeline mainly include stratified flow and wavy stratified flow. As the oil inlet velocity is 0.88~1.55 m/s, the flow patterns in the pipe are mainly stratified flow, wavy stratified flow, and dispersed flow. As the inclined angle of the pipeline is 30~40°, the flow patterns in the pipeline mainly include stratified flows, wavy stratified flows, and dispersed flows. Finally, with the increase of flow time, water can be carried completely from the pipeline through the oil. With the increase of oil inlet velocity, the water carrying capacity of oil gradually increases. With the increase of pipeline inclination, the water carrying capacity of oil firstly increases and then decreases.
Highlights
Lanzhou–Chengdu–Chongqing (Lan–Cheng–Yu) product oil pipeline is a typical pipeline with many ups and downs and large drops with complex terrain [1,2,3]
The results show that the experimental and simulation results of the oil carrying water process are highly consistent, which proves that large eddy simulation (LES) can be applied to the simulation ofofcarrying and simulation simulation carryingwater
As flow time is 10~19 s, the flow state is turbulent, the fluid in the pipe pulsates violently, the oil-water mixing in the inclined pipe is serious, the shearing action is great, and the flow pattern develops into a dispersed flow
Summary
Lanzhou–Chengdu–Chongqing (Lan–Cheng–Yu) product oil pipeline is a typical pipeline with many ups and downs and large drops with complex terrain [1,2,3]. The water-carrying process of oil flow in the product oil pipeline is affected by many factors, such as the apparent velocity of oil phase [10,11], physical properties of oil products [12,13], pipeline inclined angle [14,15], accumulated water amount [16], and pipeline diameter [17,18] It can be observed through experiments [19,20], numerical simulation [21,22], and theoretical analysis [23]. All simulation parameters were set strictly according to the actual operating parameters of this section and the numerical calculation method was extended from the experimental scale to engineering practice
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