Drag Reduction: Effects of Additives and Air Bubbles on Drag forces and Flow Patterns in Pipelines - Softcover

Baghaei, Pouria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3659219444 ISBN 13: 9783659219443

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Drag reduction is a remarkable ability to reduce the frictional resistance in the turbulent flow by adding a low concentration of certain additives, drag reducing additive agents (DRA). High costs of fluid transportation (such as pumping the liquids into the pipelines) in production processes has made drag reduction subject of lots of research in the past decades. Several studies have been carried out on reducing the friction factor in flow system using different drag reducing agents. However, there are a few investigations carried out on the effects of combining two or more DRAs. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of different additives on drag reduction using various methods. Effects of Polymer, Air bubbles, Aerofroth, and their combination have been investigated through the experimental study.

About this title

About the Author:

Pouria Baghaei finished his M.SC degree in chemical engineering in a field of fluid mechanics at university of Waterloo. Since then he contributed in different research projects of fluid mechanics and process design and tried to utilized his research achievements in the industrial fields.

About this edition

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 3659219444
• ISBN 13: 9783659219443
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152