The oil industry transport the crude oil, but with entrained solid particles. Throughout the production operations of the upstream petroleum, crude oil as well as sand particles corroded from the zones of the formation are regularly conveyed through pipes as a mixture up to the well heads and among well heads and flow stations. In this study, a three-dimensional CFD (Computational fluid dynamics) model has been developed that describes a turbulent transport of solid sand particles as well as crude oil through elbows to predict the erosions rates, where various physical aspects have been combined together including flow turbulence, particle tracking, and erosion simulation. The model has been used to investigate the different parameters that effect for crude oil and sand particles on the erosive wear rate on the pipe walls. Where, the parametric studied for crude oil are viscosity, density, velocity and temperature, also, the parametric studied for sand particles are parti-cles size, particles density and mass flow rate. Therefore, the investigation included evaluated the erosive wear rate on the pipe walls with different parametric studding by using numerical method with CFD technique. This model includes simulation of the three dimensional for turbulent flow, sand particle, and erosion rates modeling. Where, used three methods to evaluating the erosive wear rate on the pipe walls, The Finite Model, The Erosion Rate (E/CRC) Model and The Erosion rate (DNV) Model. Also, in this work can be prediction of the ero-sion position occur on the pipe wall with various parametric effect. Then, the results presented shown that the rate of erosion is increase with increasing the friction between the oil and pipe wall by variable the parametric of crude oil or sand particles. Also, the results are shown that the position of erosion variable dependent on the parametric of oil and sand. Finally, the work shown that the CFD technique is good tool can be used to evaluating the erosion rate and erosion position on pipe wall with various crude oil and sand particles parametric.
Multi-point Sheet metal forming is a flexible technique in which a discrete punches are used to generate the continuous 3-D surface . The proposed die comprises a set of matrices of a closely stacked discrete punches arranged to form a cavity in which a free form surface can be formed .The working surface of the multi-point die are modeled by a uniform B-spline and constructed by adjusting the height of each punch manually. Finite element simulation for the process was performed to study the effect of punch number on the shape error and thickness variation. Experimental work include the building of multi-point die to form the aluminum sheets. The effect using rubber interpolators on dimpling defect were also studied . The results revealed that thickness variation error between the numerical and experimental results is equal to 5% .
Multi-point forming (MPF) is a new flexible forming technology in which the fixed shape of conventional dies is replaced by a pair of opposed matrices of movable punch elements called "punch group".By using multi-point die a variety of three dimensional sheet parts of different shapes can be produced. However due to the discrete contacts between the work piece and punches the dimple defects occurred. In this paper, B-spline technique was used to represent the profile of the final product shape by adjusting the punch height of reconfigurable die. Finite element code (ANSYS 11) was used to simulate the MPF process and to investigate the influence of punch tip radius the interpolator type on the stress distribution, thickness variation and dimpling defect .The simulation results show that the large tip radius and (4mm) rubber interpolator have a great effect in reducing the stress concentration, thickness variation and also prevent the dimpling defect.
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