Prediction of Mass Flow Rate in Supersonic Natural Gas Processing

Wen, Chuang Cao, Xuewen Yang, Yan Feng, Yuqing

Prediction of Mass Flow Rate in Supersonic Natural Gas Processing - nov./dic. 2015 - 8 p. ; 1101-1109

Transcripción del resumen del autor: The mass flow rate of natural gas through the supersonic separator was numerically calculated by various cubic equations of state. The numerical results show that the compressibility factor and specific heat ratio for ideal gas law diverge remarkably from real gas models at a high inlet pressure. Simultaneously, the deviation of mass flow calculated by the ideal and real gas models reaches over 10 %. The difference increases with the lower of the inlet temperature regardless of the inlet pressure. A higher back pressure results in an earlier location of the shock wave. The pressure ratio of 0.72 is the first threshold to get the separator work normally. The second threshold is 0.95, in which case the whole flow is subsonic and cannot reach the choked state. The shock position moves upstream with the real gas model compared to the ideal gas law in the cyclonic separation section.

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