Abstract

In this work numerical analysis is used to carry out a parametric study of two-phase flow water-gasoil in a compact cyclonic separator (CCS). The study is oriented to produce a set of range parameters that may be used as a guide to control and manage multiphase mixtrure separation with application to the gas industry, espacially gas turbines. The cylindrical geometry under study has an aspect ratio of R=. (where R=height/diameter). The CCS has two exits: one on the top for light liquid flow and one tangentially located in the bottom for heavy solution of the liquid-liquid cyclonic flow. The turbulence was resolved using a RNG model, while the interactions between each component of the flow were adressed using a slip mixture model.