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Small bubbles formation and contribution to the overall gas holdup in large diameter columns of very high viscosity oil (2022)
Journal Article
Mohammed, S. K., Hasan, A. H., Dimitrakis, G., & Azzopardi, B. J. (2022). Small bubbles formation and contribution to the overall gas holdup in large diameter columns of very high viscosity oil. International journal of multiphase flow, 152, Article 104104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2022.104104

A limited number of studies are available in literature on the small bubbles which create from gas-very high viscosity oils interaction and its contribution to the gas holdup in the system. The rate of small bubble formation has an important impact o... Read More about Small bubbles formation and contribution to the overall gas holdup in large diameter columns of very high viscosity oil.

An experimental study on the effect of gas injection configuration on flow characteristics in high viscosity oil columns (2021)
Journal Article
Mohammed, S. K., Hasan, A. H., Ibrahim, A., & Dimitrakis, G. (in press). An experimental study on the effect of gas injection configuration on flow characteristics in high viscosity oil columns. The Canadian journal of chemical engineering, https://doi.org/10.1002/cjce.24312

Gas-viscous liquid bubbly and slug flow are very common in petroleum, chemical, bioengineering, polymer, and food processing. However, there is a major knowledge gap in two-phase flow research in the design of gas injectors/distributers in very high... Read More about An experimental study on the effect of gas injection configuration on flow characteristics in high viscosity oil columns.

Vertical upward and downward churn flow: Similarities and differences (2019)
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Bouyahiaoui, H., Azzi, A., Zeghloul, A., Hasan, A. H., Al-Sarkhi, A., & Parsi, M. (2020). Vertical upward and downward churn flow: Similarities and differences. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 73, Article 103080. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jngse.2019.103080

Investigation of downward two-phase flows received less attention compared to the vertical upward flows. Downward flows are found in many industries and facilities including; oil/gas production, nuclear industry and petroleum refinery/production faci... Read More about Vertical upward and downward churn flow: Similarities and differences.

Experimental investigation of the vertical upward single and two-phase flow pressure drops through gate and ball valves (2019)
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Zeghloul, A., Bouyahiaoui, H., Azzi, A., Hasan, A., & Al-sarkhi, A. (2020). Experimental investigation of the vertical upward single and two-phase flow pressure drops through gate and ball valves. Journal of Fluids Engineering, 142(2), Article FE-19-1329. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4044833

This paper presents an experimental investigation of the pressure drop through valves in vertical upward flows. Experiments were carried out using a 1¼" (DN 32) ball and a gate valve. Five opening areas have been investigated from fully open to the n... Read More about Experimental investigation of the vertical upward single and two-phase flow pressure drops through gate and ball valves.

Gas rising through a large diameter column of very viscous liquid: Flow patterns and their dynamic characteristics (2019)
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Hasan, A. H., Mohammed, S. K., Pioli, L., Hewakandamby, B. N., & Azzopardi, B. J. (2019). Gas rising through a large diameter column of very viscous liquid: Flow patterns and their dynamic characteristics. International journal of multiphase flow, 116, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2019.04.001

Gas-liquid flows are affected strongly by both the liquid and gas properties and the pipe diameter, which control features and the stability of flow patterns and their transitions. For this reason, empirical models describing the flow dynamics can be... Read More about Gas rising through a large diameter column of very viscous liquid: Flow patterns and their dynamic characteristics.

Thin film thickness measurements in two phase annular flows using ultrasonic pulse echo techniques (2019)
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Al-Aufi, Y., Hewakandamby, B., Dimitrakis, G., Holmes, M., Hasan, A., & Watson, N. (2019). Thin film thickness measurements in two phase annular flows using ultrasonic pulse echo techniques. Flow Measurement and Instrumentation, 66, 67-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2019.02.008

The electric power generation and oil/gas production industries have a strong interest in the physical characterization of conducting and non-conducting liquid films that are formed during the flow of liquids in pipes. Conducting and non-conducting l... Read More about Thin film thickness measurements in two phase annular flows using ultrasonic pulse echo techniques.

Experimental study of the characteristics of an upward two-phase slug flow in a vertical pipe (2018)
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Saidj, F., Hasan, A., Bouyahiaoui, H., Zeghloul, A., & Azzi, A. (2018). Experimental study of the characteristics of an upward two-phase slug flow in a vertical pipe. Progress in Nuclear Energy, 108, 428-437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnucene.2018.07.001

Characteristics of the slug flow, mean void fraction, liquid slug and Taylor bubble lengths; and structure frequency were all extracted from the void fraction time series. Average void fractions at nine axial positions have been measured on a 6 m lon... Read More about Experimental study of the characteristics of an upward two-phase slug flow in a vertical pipe.

Experimental investigation of a vertically downward two-phase air-water slug flow (2017)
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Bouyahiaoui, H., Azzi, A., Zeghloul, A., Hasan, A., & Berrouk, A. S. (2018). Experimental investigation of a vertically downward two-phase air-water slug flow. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 162, 12-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2017.12.028

The present experimental work investigates the vertical downward two-phase slug flow in a transparent vertical pipe of 34 mm internal diameter. The gas and liquid superficial velocities are in the range of 0–3.27 m/s and 0.015–1.4 m/s respectively. T... Read More about Experimental investigation of a vertically downward two-phase air-water slug flow.

Churn flow in high viscosity oils and large diameter columns (2017)
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Mohammed, S. K., Hasan, A., Dimitrakis, G., & Azzopardi, B. J. (2018). Churn flow in high viscosity oils and large diameter columns. International journal of multiphase flow, 100, 16-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2017.11.018

Churn flow is an important intermediate flow regime occurring in between slug and annular flow patterns in two-phase flow, with profound implications in chemical and petroleum industry. The majority of studies to date in churn flow have been carried... Read More about Churn flow in high viscosity oils and large diameter columns.