Using Microbubbles to Improve Transmission Oil in Pipes

Authors

  • Hussein Hadi Hussein Petroleum Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31699/IJCPE.2015.2.8

Keywords:

Drag, gasoil, microbubbles, turbulence

Abstract

Drag reduction (DR) techniques are used to improve the flow by spare the flow energy. The applications of DR are conduits in oil pipelines, oil well operations and flood water disposal, many techniques for drag reduction are used. One of these techniques is microbubbles.  In this work, reduce of drag percent occurs by using a small bubbles of air pumped in the fluid transported. Gasoil is used as liquid transporting in the pipelines and air pumped as microbubbles. This study shows that the maximum value of drag reduction is 25.11%.

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Published

2015-06-30

How to Cite

Hussein, H. H. (2015). Using Microbubbles to Improve Transmission Oil in Pipes. Iraqi Journal of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, 16(2), 57-60. https://doi.org/10.31699/IJCPE.2015.2.8

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