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dc.contributor.advisorMorrison, Gerald
dc.creatorBrar, Pardeep Singh
dc.date.accessioned2005-02-17T21:03:43Z
dc.date.available2005-02-17T21:03:43Z
dc.date.created2004-12
dc.date.issued2005-02-17
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/1511
dc.description.abstractIt has been found through experiments at Southwest Research Institute that temperature differences between the gas and wall of the pipe through which the gas is flowing can greatly influence the gas flow in the pipe line and give different velocity magnitudes at the top and bottom half of the pipe. The effect on the flow is observed to worsen at low fluid flow and high temperature differences. This effect has been observed by ultrasonic flow meters which measure the chord average gas velocity at four heights across the pipe. A significant variance in chord averaged velocities is apparent at these conditions. CFD analysis was performed. Low flow velocities of 0.1524 m/sec, 0.3048 m/sec and 0.6096 m/sec and temperature differences of 5.5oK, 13.8oK and 27.7oK were considered. When these conditions were imposed onto the three different geometries, it was seen that the heating caused increased errors in the ultrasonic meter response. For the single elbow and double elbow pipe configurations, the errors were below 0.5% for constant wall temperature conditions but rose to 1% for sinusoid varying wall temperature conditions. The error was seen to increase as the axial velocity became more stratified due to momentum or temperature effects. The case of maximum error was noted for the double elbow geometry with sinusoid wall temperature condition where a swirl type of flow was noted to create localized velocity maxima at the center of the pipe. This part of the pipe was barely touched by the ultrasonic meter acoustic path giving maximum error of 1.4%. A thermal well was placed in the path of the gas flow in the pipe to observe the temperature response on the surface of the thermal well. It was noted that the thermal well surface temperature differed by 1.4% for most cases with gas velocity below 0.6096 m/sec.en
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dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherTexas A&M University
dc.subjectTemperature Effectsen
dc.subjectLow gas flowen
dc.subjectThermal Wellen
dc.subjectUltrasonic Meteren
dc.titleCFD evaluation of pipeline gas stratification at low fluid flow due to temperature effectsen
dc.typeBooken
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.departmentMechanical Engineeringen
thesis.degree.disciplineMechanical Engineeringen
thesis.degree.grantorTexas A&M Universityen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen
thesis.degree.levelMastersen
dc.contributor.committeeMemberO'Neal, Dennis
dc.contributor.committeeMemberScott, Stuart
dc.type.genreElectronic Thesisen
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