FLOW RESTRICTION

Orifice Meter The most widely used flowmeter involves placing a fixed-area flow restriction (an orifice) in the pipe carrying the fliiid. This flow restriction causes a pressure drop that can be related to flow rate. The sharp-edge orifice is popular because of its simplicity, low cost, and the large amount of research data on its behavior. For the orifice meter, the flow rate for a liquid is given by... 

Install mechanical flow restriction (e.g., restriction orifice) of utility with open vent on vessel... 

Excessive fill rate. Install flow restriction orifice in fill line... 

This would be induced or caused by operation, if the plant operators strangle valves to control production tlow. Any other discharge flow restriction (clogged filter, pipe obstruction, or tin-calibrated automatic valve) would produce the same evidence. Talk with the plant engineer about this situation and show him the evidence on the pump. 

The processing of components that are on the limits of technical feasibility is likely to result in out of tolerance variation. High forces and flow restriction in metalworking and metal cutting processes can lead to instability. Also, material flow in casting processes, where abnormal sections and complex geometries are present, can lead to variability problems and defects. 

Numerical simulation of hood performance is complex, and results depend on hood design, flow restriction by surrounding surfaces, source strength, and other boundary conditions. Thus, most currently used method.s of hood design are based on experimental studies and analytical models. According to these models, the exhaust airflow rate is calculated based on the desired capture velocity at a particular location in front of the hood. It is easier... 

Superior fuel economy (more thermally efficient) particularly at low speeds due to lack of restriction of the air flow air flow restriction occurs in a gasoline engine through the throttling action of the gas pedal. 

The thermosiphon reboiler has inherent instabilities. A valve or other flow restriction in the inlet line helps overcome these instabilities. Adjustment possibilities of a valve also compensate for variations in reboiler duty as imposed by changes in operation of the fractionator. 

The inlet line consists of 50 equivalent ft of 4-in. standard pipe. The exit line consists of 50 equivalent ft of 6-in. standard pipe. No special flow restriction is in the inlet line. Preliminary calculations indicate that essentially the entire surface is in the vaporization zone. 

This further assumption concerning velocity and the volumetric rate of flow restricts flow to the pores and not the full area. Therefore, v is an apparent velocity. The actual velocity, assuming a uniform medium, is... 

Determining the total friction loss, however, is not as simple. Friction loss is caused by a number of factors and all depend on the flow velocity generated by the pump. The major sources of friction loss include friction between the pumped liquid and the sidewalls of the pipe valves, elbows, and other mechanical flow restrictions or other flow restrictions, such as back-pressure created by the weight of liquid in the delivery storage tank or resistance within the system component that uses the pumped liquid. 

In the contact mode, a metal rod acts as a waveguide. When it touches a surface, it is stimulated by the high frequencies, ultrasound, on the opposite side of the surface. This technique is used to locate turbulent flow and or flow restriction in process piping. 

Control dampers, which provide a variable flow restriction... 

Steam flow restrictions. Operating a boiler that has a restricted steam flow due to blockages or deposits in the chevrons, baffles, collecting pipes, splash plates, or pans (perhaps resulting from longterm adverse water chemistry conditions) may cause localized high steam velocities that lead to carryover. 

Fig. 10. Effect of an inlet flow restriction on burn-out flux in uniformly heated tubes [from Lowdermilk et al. (LIO)]. 4 = 0.076 in., C = 1.78 x 106 lb/hr-ft2.

SBCs and TPVs are shear-thinning materials. Therefore, as such they are benefited from the flow restrictions at the entry of molds and this allows the provision for small diameter, short landed gates. For TPVs and SBCs, it is suggested that gates should be 20%-30% of the wall thickness of the part to be filled. 

Extraction oven Extraction vessel Flow restricter... 

With injection mixers (Figures 10.52b,c), in which the one fluid is introduced into the flowing stream of the other through a concentric pipe or an annular array of jets, mixing will take place by entrainment and turbulent diffusion. Such devices should be used where one flow is much lower than the other, and will give a satisfactory blend in about 80 pipe diameters. The inclusion of baffles or other flow restrictions will reduce the mixing length required. 

Thermosyphon reboilers can suffer from flow instabilities if too high a heat flux is used. The liquid and vapour flow in the tubes is not smooth but tends to pulsate, and at high heat fluxes the pulsations can become large enough to cause vapour locking. A good practice is to install a flow restriction in the inlet line, a valve or orifice plate, so that the flow resistance can be adjusted should vapour locking occur in operation. 

In the following sections, the flow patterns, void fraction and slip ratio, and local phase, velocity, and shear distributions in various flow patterns, along with measuring instruments and available flow models, will be discussed. They will be followed by the pressure drop of two-phase flow in tubes, in rod bundles, and in flow restrictions. The final section deals with the critical flow and unsteady two-phase flow that are essential in reactor loss-of-coolant accident analyses. 

Provision of finite inlet quality condition, which can be accomplished by allowing flashing across the flow restriction at the boiler inlet. 

Clason, C.E. and Hower, W.F. "Removal of Flow Restrictions in Well Completions," API paper 851-... 

Equations 9-2 and 9-3 apply to rupture discs discharging directly to the atmosphere. For rupture discs discharging into a relief system (which might include knockout drums, scrubbers, or flares), the rupture disc is considered a flow restriction, and the flow through the entire pipe system must be considered. The calculation is performed identically to regular pipe flow (see chapter 4). The calculation to determine the rupture disc area is iterative for this case. Isaacs5 recommended assuming that the rupture disc is equivalent to 50 pipe diameters in the calculation. 

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