Numerical Simulation of Scouring Erosion Characteristics for Electric Submersible Pump Impeller

Abstract:

This paper shows the numerical simulation of the problem that electrical submersible pump impeller is vulnerable to particle impact erosion in the water under the condition of the water injection of the same wells in oil field. This simulation is based on Fluent of CFD software, which has built a geometric model of electric submersible pump impeller flow field, and given the calculation of the internal flow field of the impeller, and showed the solution of the motion track of the particles in the turbulent by the way of discrete phase model and random orbit, and calculated the erosion by the micro cutting model by particless, and compared the field test data with the simulation results which proved the reliability of numerical simulation method.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 749)
• Pages: 535-539
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.749.535
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Si Chen, Zun Ce Wang
• Keywords: Discrete Phase Model, Electric Submersible Pump, Numerical Simulation, Particle Impact Erosion

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