Project Summary

A large proportion of the resistance loss of the steam-pipe with a large diameter originates from the elbow. The bend radius of the standard elbow is rather long and occupies a lot of space. Hence, we use CFD to customize such an elbow usually via adding flow guiding-plates. The resistance of the improved design is lower while the elbow occupies less room, leading to cost-savings.

Project Highlights

Design an elbow with a smaller bend radius

The bend radius of the standard elbow is large. We must design an elbow with a smaller bend radius so that it occupies less room.

If we directly used a 90-degree elbow

If we directly used a 90-degree elbow, the resistance in the system would be large especially on air-coolers. Hence, the resistance of the pipe would increase the air-coolers’ area, resulting in higher project costs.

Extra caution is required when using flow guiding-plates

Extra caution is required when using flow guiding-plates to reduce the local resistance of the elbow because the optimal design of such flow guiding-plates will change along with the changes in physical properties of the fluid.

We communicate with clients via detailed visualizations and annotations. We always submit a preliminary version of reports to the clients before final delivery. Upon client’s confirmation, we will provide the final version of the analysis reports.

Location

Ohio, USA and Chile

Industry

Power Plant

Services Provided

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

Software Solutions Used

Fluent

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Services Associés

Analyse par
éléments finis

Analyse des contraintes
de tuyauterie

Conception a partir
de different codes