14.1.2. Examples of Multiphase Systems

Specific examples of each regime described in Multiphase Flow Regimes are listed below:

  • Bubbly flow examples include absorbers, aeration, air lift pumps, cavitation, evaporators, flotation, and scrubbers.

  • Droplet flow examples include absorbers, atomizers, combustors, cryogenic pumping, dryers, evaporation, gas cooling, and scrubbers.

  • Slug flow examples include large bubble motion in pipes or tanks.

  • Stratified/free-surface flow examples include sloshing in offshore separator devices and boiling and condensation in nuclear reactors.

  • Particle-laden flow examples include cyclone separators, air classifiers, dust collectors, and dust-laden environmental flows.

  • Pneumatic transport examples include transport of cement, grains, and metal powders.

  • Fluidized bed examples include fluidized bed reactors and circulating fluidized beds.

  • Slurry flow examples include slurry transport and mineral processing

  • Hydrotransport examples include mineral processing and biomedical and physiochemical fluid systems

  • Sedimentation examples include mineral processing.