Investigation of erosion-corrosion behavior of Q235B steel in liquid-solid flows

This work aims to investigate the erosion-corrosion behavior of Q235B steel in liquid-solid two-phase flows.The weight loss rate,surface morphology and electrochemical parameters of Q235B steel at different temperatures(20℃,30℃,40℃)and flow velocities(6 m/s,7 m/s,8 m/s,9 m/s,10 m/s)were studied separately.The results show that the weight loss rate of Q235B steel specimens after erosion-corrosion increases with increasing flow velocity and temperature.For the erosion-corrosion process,the corrosion rates of specimens increase with increasing flow velocity.The results of surface morphology show that the circular pits with clear edges are distributed randomly over specimen surface at low flow velocity,but the pit edge becomes vague at high flow velocity.With temperature increasing,the erosion-corrosion damage became serious as shown by the aggregation of large and small pits on specimen surface.The working mechanism of erosion-corrosion is found to vary with flow velocity and temperature.The relationships among erosion-corrosion components are quantitatively represented and show that synergy dominates the progress of material loss.Corrosion enhances erosion that is a dominant component in the synergy.The inactions of erosion-corrosion can be described by"synergistic"and"additive"behavior.The results show that"additive"effect becomes more significant with increasing flow velocity but decreases with increasing temperature,while"synergistic"effect is not sensitive to flow velocity and temperature.

The dispersion of particles in turbulent semi-circular duct flows

The flow field in a semi-circular duct is simulated by Large Eddy Simulation(LES)and its particle field is simulated by Lagrange particle tracking method.Reynolds number Reb(based on bulk velocity and hydraulic diameter)is 80,000 and Ret(based on friction velocity and hydraulic diameter)is 3528.Particle diameter dpis chosen as 10,50,100,500 mm corresponding to St as 0.10,2.43,9.72,243.05.The results show that the intensity of the secondary flow near the ceiling is less than that near the floor because the ceiling is curved and able to inhibit the secondary flow.It is found that the difference between the semicircular duct and the square duct is that the secondary flow in a corner of the semi-circular duct is not symmetrical along the diagonal although they have the same generation mechanism.Regarding the particles,small particles(dp≤10 mm)are found to uniformly distribute in the duct,while large particles(dp≥50 mm)preferentially distribute in the corner and floor center.The maximum particles(dp=500mm)fall on the floor quickly and their dispersion mainly depends on the secondary flow near the floor.Particle deposition in the corner depends on particle size due to the effect of secondary flow and gravity.The effect of lift force on particles becomes more significant for 50 and 100 mm particles in comparison with other smaller particles.In the end,the effect of secondary flow is found to be more significant to dominate particle behavior than that of flow fluctuation.

Effect of turbulence-driven secondary flow on particle preferential concentration and clustering in turbulent square duct flows

In this study,the preferential concentration and clustering of inertial particles in fully developed turbulent square duct flows are studied using large eddy simulations combined with Lagrangian approach,where the Reynolds number is equal to Reτ=600(based on the mean friction velocity and duct full height),and the particle Stokes number ranges from 0.0007 to 1.16.The results obtained for duct flows are compared with those for channel flows under the same working conditions.Then,the effect of the secondary flow on the particle concentration in duct flows is investigated.The equation of particle motion is governed by the drag force,lift force,added mass force,pressure gradient force,and gravity.The inter-phase interaction that was considered includes one-way and two-way coupling.The simulations of a single phase are verified and in good agreement with the available literature data.For the discrete phase,particles in the duct flow are found to be more dispersed in the vertical direction compared with the channel flow.In near-wall regions,a small fraction of particles tends to accumulate in duct corners,forming stable particle streaks under the effect of the secondary flow.Meanwhile,most particles are likely to reside preferentially in the low-speed flow regions and form elongated particle streaks steadily in the middle region of duct or channel floors.The Voronoi diagram analysis shows that the near-wall secondary flows in the square duct could cause particle clusters to transfer from regions of high to low concentration,and this trend increases with particle size.In addition,two-way coupling is found to enhance the near-wall particle accumulation and to promote particles to form more elongated streaks than one-way coupling.Finally,the mechanism responsible for the particle preferential concentration in turbulent square duct flows is determined.

Reynolds number dependence of particle transport in a 90°bend with electrostatic effects

In this work,particle transport in a fully developed turbulent 90°bend flow at the"electrostatic equi-librium"state is simulated using large eddy simulation coupled with Lagrangian particle tracking technique.The flow Reynolds numbers(based on bulk velocity)considered is from 34000 to 58000.Three particle size 5,10 and 50μm are considered and their corresponding St number are from 2.2 to 547.Simulation results of the bend flow agree well with experimental data.The electrostatic field formed in the bend is symmetric in the spanwise direction but asymmetric in the vertical direction and radial direction,which is independent of Reynolds number.The minimum electrostatic field strength occurs at r/ra=0.25 near the inner wall of the bend.Particles transported in a bend gradually accumulate near the wall due to turbophoresis,such trend is improved by electrostatics.In addition,under the effect of electrostatics,the plume pattern of particle distribution disappeared.Particle concentration at the inner wall of the bend is higher than that at the outer wall,which depends on the combined effect of elec-trostatics and Dean vortices in the bend.

Particle behavior in a turbulent pipe flow with a flat bed

Particle behavior in a turbulent flow in a circular pipe with a bed height h=0.5R is studied at Reb=40,000 and for two sizes of particles(5μm and 50μm)using large eddy simulation,one-way coupled with a Lagrangian particle tracking technique.Turbulent secondary flows are found within the pipe,with the curved upper wall affecting the secondary flow formation giving rise to a pair of large upper vortices above two smaller vortices close to the pipe floor.The behavior of the two sizes of particle is found to be quite different.The 50μm particles deposit forming irregular elongated particle streaks close to the pipe floor,particularly at the center of the flow and the pipe corners due to the impact of the secondary flows.The deposition and resuspension rate of the 5μm particles is high near the center of the floor and at the pipe corners,while values for the 50μm particles are greatest near the corners.Near the curved upper wall of the pipe,the deposition rate of the 5μm particles increases in moving from the wall center to the corners,and is greater than that for the larger particles due to the effects of the secondary flow.The maximum resuspension rate of the smaller particles occurs above the pipe corners,with the 50μm particles showing their highest resuspension rate above and at the corners of the pipe.