A Review of Experiments and Modeling of Gas-Liquid Flow in Electrical Submersible Pumps

A Review of Experiments and Modeling of Gas-Liquid Flow in Electrical Submersible Pumps

As the second most widely used artificial lift method in petroleum production (and first in produced amount), electrical submersible pump (ESP) maintains or increases flow rate by converting kinetic energy to hydraulic pressure of hydrocarbon fluids. To facilitate its optimal working conditions, an...

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Main Authors: Jianjun Zhu, Hong-Quan Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-01-01
Series:Energies
Subjects:
electrical submersible pump (ESP)
multiphase flow
mechanistic modeling
CFD
flow pattern
viscosity effect
drag coefficient
bubble size
in-situ gas void fraction
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/1/180

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