Umerical Simulation of Elbow Erosion with Circumferential Welding in Two-Phase Gas Flow

The initial processes that take place in the operating facilities of the pressure reduction station on natural gas do not remove all its pollutants, whether moisture or solid particles. Under such conditions, corrosion in pipelines, blockage of instrumentation equipment, and destruction of valves and regulators will be intensified, so it is necessary at distribution and pressure reduction stations to prevent gas pressure drop and damage to pipeline equipment, processes to separate solid particles. And liquefied droplets of natural gas. This report first defines natural gas flow erosion and then briefly describes the flow erosion using the Discrete Phase Method DPM and the Eulerian-Lagrangian biphasic flow, or the discrete phase abbreviated simulation using Ansys Fluent 2019R1 software. The gas-solid in the elbow deals with the welding of this elbow joint. This report describes the discrete and continuous phase flow equations. In this regard, to consider the perturbation effects of the energy-perturbation loss model (Realizable k- ), to model the behavior of particles in the vicinity of the wall and also the scattering of particles due to perturbation in the fluid phase is modeled using random tracing model. . The boundary conditions of solid particles colliding with the wall and the steps of numerical solution of the equations in the discrete phase method are explained and the present effect investigates the erosive corrosion. The results show that even in slow currents with low Reynolds number, the gas-solid fluid is heterogeneous, and increasing the diameter of the solid particles increases the heterogeneity of the gas-solid flow and ultimately causes more abrasion corrosion at the weld roughness.