A comprehensive review on the flow characteristics and erosion wear of the various multi-phase flow handling equipment

Abstract

The importance of this study is to investigate thoroughly the important design parameter “Erosion wear”. Since erosion wear is a serious phenomenon in which material loss occurs due to the impact of the flow, research is going on experimentally and also computationally. Through the extensive study, various important parameters and flow characteristics were drawn and also discussed the importance given to that parameter which affects erosion wear. Thus, this analysis is useful for the researcher to take care of the important parameter either by the geometrical modification or adding the sacrificial element to the device or etc., to reduce the erosion wear which is taken care of and discussed in this paper. Various erosion test rigs developed by the researchers that can replicate the industrial environment were studied and the overview was given and also the author’s point of view was briefly discussed in this paper. In addition to disseminating best practices and conducting an extensive review of the literature on experimental, computational, and mathematical investigations, the work’s main accomplishments include the identification of certain research gaps and loose ends and the provision of future research directions was discussed.

Keywords:

• Multi-phase flow
• slurry transportation systems
• erosion wear
• CFD
• thermal-mechanical process
• test rigs

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).