Erosion Behavior of Blooie Line in Gas Drilling

Abstract:

In this paper, based on mass conservation, momentum conservation and turbulence k-ε model, the incompressible flow fluid dynamics model in sand discharging process is established. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technology is adopted to solve the flow field in the bend pipe and the erosion laws of the pipeline wall are predicted coupling material erosion model. Four erosion models of carbon steel material are adopted respectively to calculate the erosion laws and comparison is conducted. Further parametric study is carried out and different influence factors (such as pipeline structure, flow of fluid, et al.) to the erosion laws of the blooie line are discussed. The results indicate that the distribution characteristics of the erosion damage and the law of the erosion rate are changed with impact parameters in the bend pipe. There are obvious distribution differences of the erosion rate within a certain angle range obtained from different erosion models.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 850)
• Pages: 394-402
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.850.394
• Online since: March 2016
• Authors: Dong Li Lv*, Tao Zhang
• Keywords: Blooie Line, CFD, Erosion, Erosion Model, Gas Drilling

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