Computational Analysis of Erosion Wear in Various Angle Bent Pipes

Slurry Erosion Wear is a thoughtful problem that generally occurs in many major industries which handle the Multi-Phase flows for transportation through pipeline system regularly. Because of the complex nature of Multi-Phase flows, a wide range of research is happening both experimentally and computationally to analyze the conditions at different parameters. In this study, the First numerical simulations were done on the experimental work of 900 elbow pipe geometry utilizing the Eulerian - Lagrangian strategy, two-way coupled for water and sand, Multi-Phase fluid flowing. Then standard elbow of radius ratio 1.5 of 900 as well as 450 Elbow pipe is modelled for numerical analysis. It was found that the results obtained by the DPM method were consistent with the experimental data. From the parameter analysis study, it is found that the higher velocities, concentration, and particle size effects the erosion wear greatly. Additionally, 90-degree elbow geometry is more susceptible to slurry erosion in industries, which must be addressed.