UN.V^HSiTATSOfBUOTHEK HANNOVER EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MULTIPHASE FLOW IN INDUSTRIAL PLANTS September, 18-19-20, 2002 ANIMP Italian Association of Industrial Plant Engineering Multiphase Flow Engineering Section POLITECNICO OF TURIN Department of Material Science and Chemical Engineering AIDIC Italian Association of Chemical Engineering Palazzo delle Mostre e dei Congressi Piazza Medford, 3 - Alba, Cuneo, Italy TIB/UB Hannover 126 366 586 89 I N D E X Key Note Speech: "ANALYSIS OF A SINGLE-FEED SEMI-BATCH PRECIPITATION PROCESS: COMPARISON BETWEEN E X P E R I M E N T A L RESULTS AND N U M E R I C A L P R E D I C T I O N S BASED ON A NOVEL C F D - M I C R O M I X I N G M O D E L " P.M. Armenante, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA - Pag. 9 SESSION 1: D Y N A M I C S OF MULTIPHASE SYSTEMS I N I N D U S T R Y : M O D E L S A N D CFD A P P L I C A T I O N S - ( P a r t 1 ) COMPANY/UNIVERSITY Pag. DETERMINATION OF PHASE AND PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION IN PIPELINE SYSTEMS BY CFD MODELING AND SIMULATION (*) Universita di Bologna DIENCA, Italy (**)Universita di Bologna DIENCA e INFM-BO, Italy ( * * * ) Snamprogetti S.p.A., Fano (Pesaro), Italy 31 E. Aulisa ( * ) S. Manservisi ( * ) V. Marra ( * ) R. Scardovelli ( * * ) A. Terenzi ( * * * ) APPLICATION OF CFD METHODS TO THE STUDY OF PHASE DISTRIBUTION AT AN IMPACTING T ( * ) Universita di Bologna DIENCA, Italy (**)Universita di Bologna DIENCA e INFM-BO, Italy ( * * * ) Snamprogetti S.p.A., Fano (Pesaro), Italy 51 S. Monahan R. O. Fox EFFECT OF GRID RESOLUTION AND FORCE MODELS ON FLOW STRUCTURES IN BUBBLE COLUMN SIMULATIONS Iowa State University Dept. of Chemical Engineering Ames, Iowa - USA 69 AUTHORS E. Aulisa ( * ) S. Manservisi ( * ) V. Marra ( * ) R. Scardovelli ( * * ) A. Terenzi ( * * * ) PAPERS SESSION 1: D Y N A M I C S OF MULTIPHASE SYSTEMS I N I N D U S T R Y : MODELS A N D CFD A P P L I C A T I O N S - ( P a r t 2 ) AUTHORS PAPERS COMPANY/UNIVERSITY MODELING OF BUBBLE COLUMNS Politecnico di Torino F. Bertola OPERATING IN VARIOUS FLOW Dip. di Scienze dei Material! e M. Vanni CONDITIONS: EFFECT OF DIFFERENT Ingegneria Chimica L. Marmo OPTIONS OF SIMULATIONS AND Italy G. Baldi DIFFERENT CODES G. Montante D. Rondini M. Caprioni F. Magelli SOLID CONCENTRATION DISTRIBUTION IN A STIRRED TANK AGITATED WITH MULTIPLE PITCHED-BLADE TURBINES: SEARCH FOR SUITABLE STRATEGIES OF SIMULATION AND COMPARISON WITH EXPERIMENTAL DATA Universita di Bologna - Dip. di Ingegneria Chimica Mineraria e delle Tecnologie Ambientali Italy F. P. Di Maio A. Di Renzo ADVANCED DEM-CFD MODELLING OF GAS FLUIDISED BEDS: CHARACTERISTICS AND APPLICATIONS Universita della Calabria Dip. dl Ing. Chimica e Mat. Arcavacata di Rende (Cosenza), Italy A. Bianchini ( * ) C. Saccani(*) D. Beltrami ( * * ) C. Panciroli f»«) SOLID MOTION IN FLUIDISED BEDS AND PRESSURE VESSELS ( * ) Universita di Bologna DIEM, Italy ( * • ) Ariostea ImplanO Ind.li SpA - Reggio Emilia, Italy M.F. Rahaman(*) 3. Naser ( * * ) P. Witt (*••) A MULTI-PARTICLE KINETIC THEORY: EXPRESSION AND COMPARISON WITH THE AVAILABLE KINETIC THEORIES ( • ) Swinburne University of Technology, Australia ( • • ) CRC Clean power from Lignite, Australia ( • • » ) CSIRO Minerals, Australia Pag. 87 110 128 148 163 SESSION 2: T R A N S P O R T , PUMPING SYSTEMS, PROCESS E Q U I P M E N T Pag. COMPANY/UNIVERSITY PAPERS AUTHORS (*)Ecole Normale Superieure, THE EFFECT OF AREA CONTRACTIONS V. Bertola ( * ) Laboratoire de Physique ON SLUG VELOCITY AND LIQUID FILM F. Moschella(**) Statistique - Paris, France THICKNESS IN GAS-UQUID HORIZONTAL FLOW (**) Brembo S.p.A. - Curno, Italv (•) School of Chemical, Environmental and Mining Engineering University of Nottingham Nottingham - U.K. (**) Universita di Genova, DITEC, Italy 181 A. Belghazi ( * ) B. J. Azzopardi ( * ) M. Fossa ( * * ) SLUG FEATURES OF A COMBINING T JUNCTION A. Laforgia C. J. Lawrence G. F. Hewitt A COHERENT MODEL FOR TWO-PHASE GAS-UQUID ANNULAR FLOW AT HIGH MASS FLUXES Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine - Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology London - U.K. 206 C. Alimonti ( * ) U. Bilardo ( * ) G. Falconet**) EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERISATION OF GAS-UQUID FLOWS THROUGH AN ANGLE VALVE (*) Universita di Roma "La Sapienza" Italy (**) Enterprise Oil pic 226 A. Mandal G. Kundu D. Mukherjee FRICTIONAL PRESSURE DROP OF GASNON-NEWTONIAN TWO PHASE FLOW IN ACOCURRENT DOWNFLOW BUBBLE COLUMN ITT Kharagpur Dep. Of Chemical Engineering Kharagpur, India 239 R. lavagnilio A COST BASED APPROACH TO DESIGN COAL-WATER MIXTURES DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS Politecnico di Ban Dip. di Prog, e Prod. Ind.le Italy 258 AUTHORS D. Marchisio ( * * ) A.A.Barresi ( * ) G. Baidi ( * ) R.O. Fox ( * * ) SESSION 3: M U L T I P H A S E MASS T R A N S F E R O P E R A T I O N S PAPERS COMPANY/ UNIVERSITY 193 Pag. COMPARISON BETWEEN THE CLASSES METHOD AND THE QUADRATURE METHOD OF MOMENTS FOR MULTIPHASE SYSTEMS ( • ) Politecnico di Torino Dip. Sdenza dei Mat. Ed Ing. Chimica Italy ( * * ) Iowa State University Dept. of Chemical Enq. - USA 283 M. Fossa G. Tanda FROST GROWTH PARAMETERS DURING FREE CONVECTION ON A VERTICAL PLATE Universita di Genova Dip. di Termoenergetica e Cond. Amb., Italy 301 C. Biserni G. Lorenzini A VAPOTRON EFFECT INDUSTRIAL APPUCATION FOR FINNED SURFACES COOLING Universita di Bologna Dip. di Ing. Energetica, Nucleare e del Controllo Ambientale - Italv 316 F. Ferrini ( * ) P. Farinelli ( * ) S. Spadoni(*) A. Abolafio ( * * ) R. Baldinelli ( « * ) L. Calore ( * * ) MTBE RECOVERY FROM WASTE WATER DRAINED AT THE BOTTOM OF UNLEADED GASOUNE STORAGE TANKS BY VACUUM STRIPPING (*) Techfem Sri Fano (PS), Italy ( * • ) Praoil SpA - Genova, Italy 327 Invited paper: "AGGLOMERATION IN PRATSOUS PROJECT" A. M. Varone, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany MIXING SESSION 4: AND SEPARATION Pag. 341 SYSTEMS ( P a r t 1) AUTHORS B. Formisani R. Girimonte A. Mannara PAPERS THE INFLUENCE OF SIZE AND DENSITY DIFFERENCES ON THE FLUIDIZATION BEHAVIOUR OF TWO-COMPONENT BEDS OF SPHERES COMPANY/UNIVERSITY Universita della Calabria Dip. di Ingegneria Chimica e dei Materiali Arcavacata di Rende (Cosenza), Italy 375 R. Bubbico B. Mazzarotta N. Verdone MINIMUM SUSPENSION VELOCITY FOR CONCENTRATED SUSPENSIONS OF LARGE PARTICLES I N AN AQUEOUS SOLUTION Universita di Roma "La Sapienza" Dip. di Ingegneria Chimica Italy 392 M. Bevilacqua ( * ) A. Grassi ( * * ) B. Rimini ( * * ) THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF POWDER MIXING SYSTEMS (*)Universita di Bologna - DIEM, Italy (**) Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia DISMI - Reggio Emilia, Italy G. Donsi G. Ferrari M. Poletto P. Russo DISCHARGE OF A COHESIVE MAGNESIUM CARBONATE POWDER WITH AN AERATED HOPPER Universita di Salerno Dip. Di Ing. Chimica e Alimentare Rsciano (SA), Italy MIXING AUTHORS D. Barletta A. D'Arco G. Donsi G. Ferrari M. Poletto SESSION 4: A N D S E P A R A T I O N SYSTEMS ( P a r t PAPERS SOLIDS MIXING DURING THE DISCHARGE OF AN AERATED HOPPER: PREUMINARY EVALUATION FROM THE MEASUREMENT OF THE PARTICLE VELOCITY FIELD CFD SIMULATIONS OF SOUDS G. Micale(*) A. Scuzzarella ( * * ) SUSPENSION I N STIRRED VESSELS WITH DENSE PARTICLE EFFECTS P. Lettieri (*) F. Grtsafi ( * * ) A. Brucato ( * * ) Pag. 409 435 2) COMPANY/UNIVERSITY Universita di Salerno Dip. Di Ing. Chimica e Alimentare Rsciano (SA), Italy (*) University College London, UK (•*) Universita di Palermo Dip. di Ingegneria Chimica dei Processi e dei Materiali, Italy E. Ferrari M. Gamberi R. Manzini A^Regattieri EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT ON WEAR EFFECTS IN CYCUNDRICAL HYDROCYCLONES FOR DEWATERING Universita di Bologna DIEM - Italy M. Bevilacqua(*) F.E. Ciarapica ( * * ) G. Giacchetta ( * * ) EXTENDED ANALYSIS OF A NEW DEVICE FOR COMPLETE SEPARATION OF TWO PHASE UQUID-GAS FLOWS (*)Universita di Bologna Dip. Di Ing. Delle Costr. Meco, Nucleari, Aeronautiche e di Metallurgia Italy ( • * ) Universita di Ancona Diparbmento di Energetica- Italy A.V. Sanduliak ( * ) A-A. Sanduliak ( * ) A. Bianchini ( * * ) C Saccani(**) MAGNETIZED FILTER-MATRIX AS A MONO - OR POLY - EXPONENTIAL ABSORBING SCREEN (*) Moscow State Technical University MAMI A.H. Raza 1-A.Lai-Fook p -f. Luckham CJ. Lawrence DROPLET BREAKUP IN A CAVITY TRANSFER MIXER (CTM) Pag. 451 468 485 (••)Universita di Bologna-DIEM Italy Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine Dept of Chemical Eng. and Chemical Technology London, UK 495 505 525 SESSION 5 : EMERGENCY M U L T I P H A S E PAPERS AUTHORS G. Boccardi ( * ) R. Bubbico ( * * ) G. P. Celata ( * ) M. Cumo ( * * * ) FLOW COMPANY/UNIVERSITY Pag. WATER TWO-PHASE FLOW THROUGH PRESSURE SAFETY VALVE WITH VARIABLE BACKPRESSURE: CHECK OF CALCULATION METHODS TO ESTIMATE MASS FLOW RATE AND CRITICAL FLOW CONDITIONS (*) ENEA -Institute of ThermalFluid Dynamics, Roma- Italy ( * * ) Universita dl Roma "La Sapienza" Dip. di Ing. Chimica .Italy (***)Universita di Roma "La Sapienza" Dip. di Inq. Nucleare, Italy 551 F. Castiglia M. Giardina MODELUNG TWO-PHASE FLOW DISCHARGE THROUGH LATERAL BRANCHES IN LARGE HORIZONTAL PIPES WITH STRATIFIED FLOW Universita di Palermo Dip. di Ingegneria Nucleare Italy 571 P. Alix E. Novat 3. P. Bigot LOSS OF UQUEFIED GAS CONTAINMENT EVALUATION OF THE SOURCE TERM Ecole Nationale Supeneure des Mines de Saint-Etienne France 580 AUTHORS T. Elperin M. Klochko SESSION 6: MEASUREMENT, CONTROL, S I M U L A T I O N OF FLOW P A R A M E T E R S COMPANY/UNIVERSITY PAPERS Pag. FLOW REGIME IDENTIFICATION IN A TWO-PHASE FLOW USING WAVELET TRANSFORM Ben-Gurion University of Negev The Pearlstone Center for Aeronautical Engineering Studies Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Israel M. Fossa G. Guglielmini A- MsrchiLto EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERISATION OF INTERMITTENT FLOWS BY VOID FRACTION ANALYSIS Universita di Genova Dip. Di Termoenergetica e Cond. Ambientale, Italy 609 C. Alimonti ( * ) U. Bilardo ( * ) A. Martino ( * ) CWM van der Geld (*•) EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL STUDY OF A SINGLE DROPLET MOTION IN AN ACCELERATED FLOW (*)Universita di Roma "La Sapienza' Dip. ICMMPM, Italy ( • * ) Techniche Universiteit Eindhoven 628 593 <• * * * * * * * * * POSTER SESSION: The following papers will be presented by the authors who will be available for presentation and discussion AUTHORS A. Fidel-Dufour J. M. Herri P. Lunghi R. Bove POSTERS COMPANY/UNIVERSITY Pag FORMATION AND TRANSPORTATION OF Ecole Nationale Supeneure des METHANE HYDRATE SLURRIES IN A Mines des Saint-Etienne - France FLOW LOOP REACTOR : INFLUENCE OF A DISPERSANT 647 INTEGRATED NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH FOR WASTE ASPHALT RECYOJNG DEMONSTRATION THROUGH A SIMULTANEOUS MULTIPHASE HEATING AND TRANSPORTING PROCESS OF THE RECLAIMED MATERIAL 660 Universita di Perugia Dip. di Ingegneria Industriale Italy