Hydrodynamic Liquid-Liquid Two-Phase Flow through Horizontal Pipeline

Flow pattern for water-oil flow in horizontal (inner diameter of 0.6 cm) glass pipe was used. Experiment was based on (1) Study of various flow patterns at different superficial velocity of (water and oil were: 0.28 to 1.467 m/s and 0.24 to1.64 m/s) water-oil immiscible flow using visualization technique. (2) Pressure drop and hold up measurement using manometer. The analysis reveals that homogeneous model suitable for dispersion flow were as bubbly flow pattern is observed batter by drift flux model. In present study stagnant film model and moving film model were used by taking account of velocity of fluid against pressure drop. The stagnant film model was adequate to accurately predict the liquid- liquid slug flow pressure drop having relative error was 3.4 %. Stagnant film model was in good agreement with experimental data with a mean relative error of less than 11%. The purpose of this thesis is to study the behavior of the simultaneous flow of oil and water in horizontal pipes which is common in a diverse range of process industries and particularly in the petroleum industry