Preparation and Research of a Bionic Woven Tracheal Stent with Horizontal Pipeline

The paper designed a bionic woven tracheal stent and the stent was a multi-layer tubular structure with a transverse pipeline.Polydioxanone( PDO) monofilament and β-hydroxybutyrate and β-hydroxyvalerate copolymers/polylactic( PHBV/PLA) multifilament were chosen as the tissue engineering tracheal stent materials,and chitosan was chosen as the coating material. This study selected appropriate basic fabric structures and prepared the tracheal stent by setting reasonable weaving parameters,then treated the sample with coating and heat setting. Radical compression performances of the horizontal pipeline and longitudinal pipeline of this tracheal stent were investigated,and the experimental results showed that the stent had good performance on radial supporting force and elastic recovery,which meant it could supply adequate supports for cell growth and tissue regeneration of tracheal lesions; the horizontal pipeline could provide a good experimental foundation for reconstruction of the cartilage ring.

Experimental Acoustic Determination of the Void Fraction in Two-Phase Flow in Horizontal Pipelines

In multi-phase flows, the phases can flow and arranged in different spatial configurations in the pipe, which called flow patterns. This type of flow is found in the oil, chemical and nuclear industries. For example, in the production and transport of oil and gas, the identification of the flow patterns are essential for answering those questions which are related to the economic return of the field, such as, measuring the volumetric flow, determining the pressure drop along the flow lines, production management and supervision. In offshore production, these factors are very important. This paper presents a new method for measuring the void fraction in horizontal pipelines, taking the air as gas in water-air two-phase flow. Through acoustic analysis of the frequency response of the pipe, the method gets the parameters to changes in runoff regime, in an experimental arrangement constructed on a small scale. The main advantages are the non-intrusive characteristic and easy to implement. The paper is composed of a qualitative experimental evaluation and transducers （microphone） which are used to analyze variations in the response accompanying variations in void and flow pattern changes. Changes are imposed and controlled by a two-phase flow experimental simulation rig, including a measurement cell constituted of an external casing that can isolate the measurement from the environmental background noise fitted with acoustic pressure transducers radially arranged, and the impact of a monitored excitation mechanism. The signals which captured by the microphones are processed and analyzed by checking their frequency contents changes according to the amount of air in the mixture.

An experimental study of drag reduction by nanofluids in slug two-phase flow of air and water through horizontal pipes

This study investigates the effect of injecting nanofluids containing nano-SiO_2 as drag reducing agents(DRA) at different concentrations on the pressure drop of air-water flow through horizontal pipe.The test fluid used in this study was air-water with nano-SiO_2 particles at 0.1%-1%mass concentration.The test sections of the experimental set-up were five pipes of the same length of 9 m with ID from 0.0127m-0.03175m(0.5 to 1.25 in).Airwater flow was run in slug flow regime under different volumetric flow rates.The results of drag reduction(η%)indicated that the addition of DRA could be efficient up to some dosage.Drag reduction performed much better for smaller pipe diameters than it did for larger ones.For various nanosilica concentrations,the maximum drag reduction was about 66.8%for 0.75%mass concentration of nanosilica.