Numerical calculation and analysis of gas-liquid two-phase flow in a centrifugal multiphase pump for deep-sea mining

Asian Working Group- IAHR's Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems

Li, C.H.^1 ; Luo, X.Q.^1 ; Zhang, L.F.^1 ; Sun, S.H.^1 ; Yan, S.N.^1

Institute of Water Resources and Hydro-electric Engineering, Xi'An University of Technology, Xi'an

710048, China^1

关键词: Best efficiency point;    Economic benefits;    Focus of researches;    Gas;    liquid two-phase flows;    Internal flow field;    Numerical calculation;    Simulation and analysis;    SST turbulence models;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/163/1/012045/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/163/1/012045

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

With the development of offshore oilfield, the gas-liquid centrifugal multiphase pump (CMP) has become the focus of research for its more effective way of working and economic benefits. In order to transport two-phase media, the internal flow of gas-liquid multiphase pump is complicated. In this study, the gas content effect on CMP performance was investigated by computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Gas and water are flowed through a DN127 CMP at varying gas content. This paper based on the Euler Model, the numerical simulation and analysis of three stages gas-liquid two-phase pump internal flow field are conducted, with the standard k-, SST and SSG turbulence model. The influence of different turbulence models on the numerical results and the effects of different gas-liquid fraction on the characteristics of pump and internal flow law are analyzed. The results shows that the standard SST turbulence model is more suitable for the numerical calculation of gas-liquid two-phase flow; and at pump best efficiency point (BEP), the head of the multiphase pump decreases by 4.5%∼26% and the efficiency of CMP decreases by 4.6%∼20% when the gas content increases from 0% to 20%, the CMP becomes ineffective when the gas content is higher than 40%.