...Mingyang Liu; Liming Hu Solid particle erosion has been a long-standing concern in oil-and-gas production and transportation systems, particularly in elbows of pipelines. Since it is difficult to exactly reproduce field conditions in the laboratory to study erosion, it is necessary to develop...

...Rong Kang; Haixiao Liu In the transportation process of oil and gas, solid particle erosion in pipelines is an inevitable problem. The erosion usually occurs in fittings with changing flow directions, such as elbows. A theoretical model based on mechanism analyses is developed for predicting...

... of the liquid and gas phases and their corresponding velocities change continuously. Most of the currently available erosion prediction models are developed for single-phase flow using empirical data with limited accuracy. A mechanistic model has been developed for predicting erosion in elbows in annular...

...Xianghui Chen; Brenton S. McLaury; Siamack A. Shirazi A comprehensive procedure that combines mechanistic analysis and numerical simulation approaches is proposed to estimate the erosion in elbows for gas/liquid/sand particle multiphase flow systems. The erosion problem in multiphase flow...