화학공학소재연구정보센터
홈 로그인 로그아웃 연락처 사이트맵
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.14, No.4, 409-416, July, 2008
DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2008.07.001  Export Citation
Drag reduction in flow: Review of applications, mechanism and prediction
Witold Brostow1, 2, †
  • 1Laboratory of Advanced Polymers & Optimized Materials (LAPOM), Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics, University of North Texas, PO Box 305310, Denton, TX 76203-5310, USA
  • 2Department of Petroleum Chemistry and Technology, Lvivska Politechnika National Unive, Stepana Bandery 12, 79013 Lviv, Ukraine
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Drag reduction (DR) agents are used at very low concentrations to accelerate significantly the flow in oil pipeline conduits, oil well operations, flood water disposal, fire fighting, field irrigation, transport of suspensions and slurries, sewer systems, water heating and cooling systems, airplane tank filling, marine systems, and biomedical systems including blood flow. DR agents are typically high molecular mass polymers; this review discusses a mechanism explaining how DR occurs using such agents. All pertinent experimental findings are challenged with that mechanism and all are shown to support it. In industrial applications DR agents undergo mechanical degradation in turbulent flow. An equation predicting the degradation as a function of time is presented and successfully confronted with experimental data. Experimental methods of determination of DR are outlined. Finally a connection between DR and flocculation is discussed.
Keywords:Drag reduction;Turbulent flow;Petroleum transport;Polymer solvation;Flocculation
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