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Comments on the prediction of liquid holdup for gas‐liquid flow in inclined pipes
Author(s) -
Gregory G. A.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
the canadian journal of chemical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1939-019X
pISSN - 0008-4034
DOI - 10.1002/cjce.5450520405
Subject(s) - flow (mathematics) , mechanics , liquid flow , volume (thermodynamics) , materials science , thermodynamics , mathematics , physics
Abstract Four correlations for predicting the in situ liquid volume fraction for gas‐liquid flow in inclined pipes have been tested against available data from the literature. It is demonstrated that the commonly used correlations of Baker (4) and Flanigan (5) are subject to large errors. It is recommended that the correlation of Guzhov et al (2) be used unless it predicts values of E L less than 0.25. In the latter case, the Lockhart‐Martinelli (3) correlation should be used.