Jtam-A4.dvi JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS 52, 3, pp. 655-664, Warsaw 2014 THE USAGE OF HIGH SPEED IMPULSE LIQUID JETS FOR PUTTING OUT GAS BLOWOUTS Alexander N. Semko, Marina V. Beskrovnaya Donetsk National University, Donetsk e-mail: o.semko@donnu.edu.ua Stanislav A. Vinogradov, Igor N. Hritsina National University of Civil Defense of Ukraine, Kharkov Nataliya I. Yagudina Donetsk National University, Donetsk The experimental examinations of gas flame suppression by a high speed impulse liquid jet generated by a powder impulse hydro-cannon have been carried out. The speed of the impulse jet depending on charge energy has ranged from 300 to 600m/s. The speed of the jet head right near the flame has been measured by a laser non-contact measuring device, the flow has been photographed. It has been shown that the high-speed cloud of splashes with a big cross-section around the jet is being formed. It effectively forces down the flame of the gas on distances 5-20m from installation. Keywords: impulse liquid jet, powder impulse hydrocannon 1. Introduction Oil and gas fountain fires are one of the most difficult species of industrial accidents at oil and gas fields.Huge amounts of carbondioxide, oxides of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur are ejected into the atmosphere in such accidents. Fighting these fires requires using of enormous material and technical resources and can last for weeks. The height of high power burning torch reaches 80- 100m, heat intensity in such torch amounts to approximately several million kilowatts (Grace, 2003). Fire monitors (hydromonitors), gas-extinguishing vehicles, pneumatic powder flame- suppressers (Povzik, 2004; Mamikonyants, 1971; Holand, 1997; Drayzdel, 1990; Polakov, 2012) are the most commonly used methods of gas blowout extinguishing in Ukraine and other CIS countries. Each of the specified fire-fightingmethods has its advantages and disadvantages. Ho- wever, there is still no universal and effective method for gas blowout extinguishing. One of the most wide-spread methods of fires and gas blowout extinguishing is the use of water mist. Themain active factors in the flame extinguishing by water mist are cooling of the burningmaterial and forming of the vapor cloud confining the combustion source. A separating gas blowout quenching is observed using a high speed liquid jet, the jet of a finely dispersed spray is ripping off the torch. Experiments have shown that the disruption of diffusion flame torch occurs when the extinguishing speed of the liquid jet is about 80-100m/s. The present paper presents some experimental research on gas blowout extinguishing using high speed impulse liquid jets,whichare obtainedby impulsewater cannon (IW). Studies carried outusingmodelplantshaveprovidedpromisingresults thatdemonstrated thepossibilityof torch extinguishing bymeans of such amethod, and the prospects of this direction (Larin et al., 2011; Semko et al., 2013). 656 A.N. Semko et al. 2. Outlines of the experimental procedure Thepurpose of the experimentswas to determinewhether it is possible to put out gas blow-outs by an impulse water cannon, to determine the running speed of cross flow of the liquid in which the flame is extinguished, and to define the zone to which the jet should be aimed in order to guarantee the flame extinguishing process. The gas blowout model has been calculated on the basis of aerodynamical similarity factor, which characterizes the processes of gas mixing with the surrounding atmosphere. It depends on pressure and gas jet thickness (Wooleys and Yarin, 1978; Spalding, 1985; Karpov, 1998) K= w20 2gd0 (2.1) where w0 is the gas outflow velocity [m/s], g – speed-up of free fall, d0 – well diameter [m]. Gas blowout modeling for blow-out burning with output (1-3)·106m3/day has been carried out. The well diameter is calculated using standard drill equipment from 0.3 to 0.5m. The modeling scale according to linear size M 1:100 for themodeling of blow-out diameter is in the range (3-5)mm. Parameters of simulative flames for different conditions (output and well hole diameter) are provided in the Table 1. Table 1.Parameters of different simulative flames in different condition Diameter of Well hole Gas Speed Flow No. the model diameter blow-out value rate [mm] [m] [106m3/s] [m/s] [m3/s] 1 3 0.3 1 16.38 0.116 2 3 0.3 2 32.76 0.23 3 3 0.3 3 49.1 0.347 4 4 0.4 1 9.21 0.116 5 4 0.4 2 18.43 0.23 6 4 0.4 3 27.65 0.347 7 5 0.5 1 5.89 0.116 8 5 0.5 2 11.8 0.23 9 5 0.5 3 17.7 0.347 In the experiments, the simulative fire seat of gas blow-out corresponding to average para- meters has been used. Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of the experiment, and Fig. 2 is a picture of experiments carried out at the test site to determine the speed of the high impulse liquid jet at which the quenching of the torch occurs. Fig. 1. A scheme of the experiment of extinguishing a gas torch; 1 – powder-IW, 2 – pulse jet, 3 – gas torch, 4 and 5 – blocks of speed meter, 6 – laser beams The usage of high speed impulse liquid jets for putting out gas blowouts 657 Fig. 2. The scheme of field tests of extinguishing a gas torch; 1 – powder-IW, 2 – pulse jet, 3 – gas torch, 4 and 5 – blocks of speed meter A series of shots of high-speedwater jets 2 have been produced towards the gas torch 3 from powder IW1,whichwas located at a predetermined distance from the torch. The burnout of the torchwas qualitatively recorded, aswell as the speed of the high-speed jetwasmeasured directly in front of the torch using a non-contact laser speed detector, which consists of two blocks 4 and 5. The mass of the powder charge and the distance from IW to the torch varied during the experiments, the last one wasmeasured by a tapemeasure. Changing these two parameters allows adjusting the impulse jet speed before the torch in a wide range from 60 to 430m/s, registered in the experiments. 3. Gunpowder impulse water cannon A layout of the powder impulse hydro-cannon bymeans of which the experimental research was carried out is described in Fig. 3 (Semko, 2002, 2007). Barrel 4 of the powderwater-cannon that ends with a conical nozzle 6 with collimator 7 is filled up with water 3. Fig. 3. Powder impulse water cannon; 1 – igniter, 2 – combustion chamber, 3 – water, 4 – barrel, 5 – binding belt, 6 – nozzle, 7 – collimator, 8 – wad, 9 – gate, L and Ls are length of the barrel and the nozzle with collimator, xg is the coordinate of the contact surface Charge of gun-powder 2 is separated from water charge 3 by means of wad 8. For reinfor- cement, the most stressed section of the barrel is strengthened by binding belt 5 fixed on the barrel with backward tension. Gun-powder charge 2 in the casing of the water cannon is fixed by gate 9, inside which there is igniter 1. At the start time, igniter 1 is actuated and fires gun- powder charge 2. Powder gases that are generated during powder burning start expulsing and ejecting water charge 3 through conical nozzle 6 in form of a impulse liquid jet. The outflow of liquid jet starts with a relatively small velocity that increases with the increasing the pressure of powder gases. 658 A.N. Semko et al. In order to build amathematical model of the powder impulsewater-gun shot, the following assumptions have been made. The fluid is considered as ideal and compressible, viscosity, heat conductivity and the influence of wad are neglected. The structure of the nozzle is assumed to be smooth, and radial flow components are not taken into account. The beginning of the coordinates corresponds to the nozzle inlet. In the adopted approach, the quasi one-dimensional flow of the ideal compressible liquid in the powder impulsewater gun is described by a system of equations of non-steady gas dynamics as follows ∂ρF ∂t + ∂ρvF ∂x =0 ∂ρvF ∂t + ∂(ρv2+p)F ∂x = p dF dx p=B [( ρ ρ0 )n −1 ] (3.1) where t is time, x is a coordinate, v is speed, F(x) is the area of cross section of the nozzle and barrel, p and ρ are pressure and density, B = 304.5MPa, n = 7.15, ρ0 = 10 3kg/m3 are constants in Tait’s water state equation. The initial and boundary conditions are the following v(0,x) = 0 p(0,x) = 0 ρ(0,x)= ρ0 −L¬x¬Ls p(t,L)= 0 p(t,xg)= pg v(t,xg)= vg (3.2) where L and Ls are lengths of the barrel and nozzle with collimator, xg is the coordinate of the contact surface, pg and vg are pressure and speed of powder gases on the contact surface. The burning of the gunpowder is calculated according to the methodology described in the paper by Semko (2002, 2007) and according to the assumptions made in this paper that are standard for the problems of internal ballistics in artillery (Orlova, 1974). In the quasi-steady approximation, the gunpowder burning equations and initial conditions are as follows dz dt = u1pg h1 Qg = dmg dt =mp0σ(z) dz dt 1 k−1 d(pgVg) dt +pgFug = qQg dVg dt =Qg ( 1 ρp −α ) +vgF vg = dxg dt mb =mb0 z=0 Vg =Vg0 mg =mg0 pg = pg0 xg =−L (3.3) where h1 is a half of the powder grain thickness, z is the burnt layer thickness referred to h1, u1 is the constant of burning speed, pg is the pressure of powder gases, Qg is the speed of appearing powder gases, σ(z) = 3(1−2z+z2) is the relative area of burning of the gunpowder spherical grains, α is a correction for the volume ofmolecules, mg and mp0 are the gasmass and the initialmass of powder, k is an the adiabatic index, q and ρp are the specific combustion heat and the density of gunpowder, Vg is the volume of powder gases, Vg0,mg0, pg0 are parameters of the gas after the ignition. The calculations have beenmadenumerically by themethodology ofGodunov andRodionov (Semko, 2007, 2002; Reshetnyak and Semko, 2009). Hereinafter some calculation results are provided for a powder impulse water-gun with the following parameters: the mass of water charge – 450g and the diameter of nozzle and jet – 15mm. InFig. 4, graphsof thedependenceof the jet outflowspeedand internal pressureof thewater- gun beginning from the time needed for the powder charge with a mass of 30g are provided (normaloperation conditionsof thehydro-cannon).Curve1 showstheoutflowspeed,2–pressure of powder gases, 3 – water pressure in the barrel of hydro-cannon. As it is seen in the figure, the jet outflow of the impulse hydro-cannon starts from zero speed.While the powder is burnt, the outflow speed grows fast and reaches themaximum value of 685m/s in 1.5ms from the shot beginning. The powder burns out later, by the time point tg = 1.57ms (on the graph it is pointed out by the dotted line). The jet outflow speed by this The usage of high speed impulse liquid jets for putting out gas blowouts 659 Fig. 4. Courses of the jet outflow speed and internal pressure of hydro-cannonwith time; 1 – outflow speed, 2 – powder gas pressure, 3 – water pressure in barrel, tg =1.57ms – powder burning time, tout =5.2ms – water jet outflow ends time reduces a little till 647m/s. After powder burning out, the outflow speed decreases slowly till 320m/s. The jet outflow ends by the time point tout =5.2ms with a small portion of water kick by powder gases with a higher speed. Curve 2 that describes powder gases pressure in the water-cannon has a typical form that is characteristic for barreled cannon weapons. The maximum pressure of powder gases reaches 275MPa by the time point 0.95ms. Afterwards, the pressure of powder gases steadily declines till 40MPa at the end of the shot. Water pressure in the barrel of the hydro-cannon (curve 3) does not exceed the powder gases pressure and it has a pulsating nature, that reflects the wave processes inside the installationduringthefiringprocess that are connectedwith thecompression and depressionwaves that are reflected from the cutoff point of powder gases and the nozzle exit section. Pressure pulsations are insignificant and they influence a little the speed of the impulse jet outflow. The liquid pressure in the installation and the jet outflow speed are perfectly in line with the Bernulli equation for an incompressible liquid and steady-flow process (Semko, 2002; Orlova, 1974). Themaximum outflow speed of the impulse liquid jet in the hydro-cannon calculated on the basis of liquid pressure inside the installation at this point amounts to 678m/s that differs from the exact calculation in the non-steady formulation for the compressible fluid by 1%. The provided calculation results show that the parameters of the powder hydro-cannon can be obtained with a good accuracy in a simpler quasi-steady formulation not considering compressibility of the liquid. In Table 2 calculation results of the maximum outflow speed of the impulse liquid jet of powder hydro-cannon for different gun-powder charges are provided. Table 2.Dependence of hydro-cannon parameters an gun-powder mass Powder mass [g] 30 25 20 15 10 5 Maximum jet speed [m/s] 686 600 504 405 298 178 Maximum pressure of 275 205.9 143 89.8 46.5 16.8 powder gases [MPa] As ithasbeenexpected, diminishingof thepowdermass (firingenergy) reduces themaximum jet speedand thepressure inside the installation, and the reduction ismuch faster for thepressure than the speed.For example, for a powder charge of 10g (powdermass is 3 times less than in the regular operation mode), the maximum outflow speed decreased by 2.3 times and the pressure went downby 6 times.The correlation between speed andpressure conforms satisfactorily to the Bernulli equation for incompressible liquids, according to which the pressure is proportional to the squared speed. A significant decrease of the maximum pressure inside the installation with insignificant diminishing of the maximum liquid jet speed is a positive factor for the strength 660 A.N. Semko et al. properties of the installation: the lower is the pressure in the installation, the thinner its casing can be, the lower can be its mass and, as a consequence, the higher its mobility is. The specific nature of the dependence of the outflow speed of the liquid jet of the hydro- cannonontime(a fast increase in thebeginningofoutflow fromzero tomaximum,andafterwards adroppractically upto zero) determinespatterns ofdiffusionof the impulse jet.At thebeginning of the outflow process, the fastest particles of outflowing from the hydro-cannon nozzle liquid go through the lower, escaped earlier ones.Consequently, in the streamthere occurs radial flow that leads to an increase in the jet cross section. The speed of radial flow vr can be estimated on the basis of Bernulli equation for the excess pressure in the jet that occurs in collision of the faster backward section of the jetwith its slower front section that escaped earlier (Chermenskiy, 1970; Dunne andCassen, 1956; Noumi andYamamoto, 1992). These estimations show that the speed of radial flow is proportional to the square root of the excess pressure vr ∼ √ ∆p ∼ ∆v, that in turn is proportional to the square of speed difference ∆v of the co-crashed liquid sections. That is why at the initial phase of the outflow, speed of the head of the jet increases until the high-speed sections have not reached the head of the stream.Afterwards, the jet headdiminishes due to deceleration by air. The radial flow causes thickening of the jet and formation around it of a halation of splashes thatmoves with the speed that differs to a little extent from the speed of the jet core. 4. Experiments of the simulative/model gas blow-out putting out by means of a hydro-cannon The distance from IW to the torch and the amount of the powder charge varied during the experiments, they determine the speed of the impulse jet liquid. The distance from the position of IW to the torchwasmeasured by a tapemeasure, and the aimingwas performed bymeans of a special laser sight, which was mounted on the trunk of the impulse water cannon. The speed of the impulse jet liquid at which the quenching of the gas torch occured was measured during the experiments.Measuring the velocity of the head of the liquid impulse jet was carried out by means of a non-contact laser speedmeter of our own design. A series of fire shots have been made from distances of 5, 10, 12 and 15 meters for powder charges of 5, 10 and 15g. In the experiments, the speed of the impulse jet head section before the torch has been measured, the jet has been photographed and video filmed at its different diffusion stages. The speed of the head section of the jet has been measured by means of a non-contact laser speedmeasuring device that allowed recording the speed in the range from 50 to 3000m/s. The results of the experiments are shown in Table 3. It can be concluded from the analysis of the experimental results that the rate of the impulse liquid jet headwhichprovides for hearth extinguishing of themodel fire gas fountain ranges from (80-90)m/s, which confirms the experimental studies obtained by other authors. Figure 5 shows fragments of videorecording of the gas flame quenching by the high speed impulse liquid jet. Here 1 stands for the impulse jet of the liquid, 2 – gas torch, 3 – speed detector modules. Figure 5a, 5b and 5c are the initial, middle and final stages of the gas torch extinguishing, and Fig. 5d – size of the torch. A band out of the dark material with subdivisions is visible on the background of the picture. The distance between big labels is 1 meter, and between small ones is 0.5m. The distance from the facility to the torch is 10m. The photos also show speedmeter modules 3 that are installed at a distance of twometers from each other. The jet flew 3.5 meters on the first photo (Fig. 5a). The form of the jet at this time corre- sponds to themiddle phase of spreading. The head part of the spray and the veil of splashing in the rear are clearly visible, the cross-section of splashing ismany times larger than the diameter of the jet. The usage of high speed impulse liquid jets for putting out gas blowouts 661 Table 3.Results of experimental research No. Powder mass [g] Distance from the hydro-cannon to the torch [m] Speed at the torch [m/s] Result of putting out the torch: extinguished (+) and not extinguished (–) 1 5 5 227 + 2 10 87 + 3 15 63 – 4 12 71 – 5 10 5 338 + 6 10 105 + 7 15 69 – 8 12 82 + 9 15 5 428 + 10 10 125 + 11 15 78 – 12 12 108 + Fig. 5. Experiments on extinguishing of the gas torch; 1 – pulse jet of liquid, 2 – gas torch, 3 – system of speed measurement of the jet head The jet flew about 9meters on the second photo (Fig. 5b). The head part of the jet is clearly visible. It is located at a distance of about onemeter fromthe torch.Thewhole jet is surrounded by a veil of spray, its transverse dimension reaches 0.5m in some places. The head part of the jet has a pointed shape and is intensely eroded by the air. In the third photograph (Fig 5c), the jet cuts the torch from the borehole and stops the supply of combustiblemixture, which leads to the flame quenching. The upper part of the flame still burns and the lower part is ripped by the impulse liquid jet. The impulse liquid jet speed 662 A.N. Semko et al. is much higher than the speed of the gas inflow from the wellbore to the flame combustion zone that contributes to the disruption of the flame and stops the torch combustion. The analysis of video recordings in Fig. 5 showed that the jet flies to the gas flame (b), and isolates the combustion zone from the supply of the fresh fuelmixture (c) and (d). Subsequently, in (d) the jet impact area increases. Between the burner and flame a gap is being formedmade of a mixture of gas, air and liquid drops. The concentration of the gas in the gap area is below the lower flammability limits, which prevents the resumption of combustion. The resumption of combustion is also prevented due to the fact that the speed of afterburning of the combustible gas is higher than the rate of supply of new combustion products. 5. Generalization of the results of model experiments on full-scale tests Application of the theory of similarity allows formulation of the requirements for laboratory models to conduct science-based experimental research on models, identification of ways of processingandgeneralization of the experimentaldata inorder to transfer themodel experiments to full-scale tests (Sedov, 1977). It is known that the modeling is based on the consideration of similar physical phenomena. The processes will be similar if: • they are described by the same equations • the initial and boundary conditions are identical up to the constants • the same similarity criteria are equal. Consider first the similarity criteria for the jet cannon. Themovement of the liquid in IW is described by the following equations in a dimensionless form L TV ∂ρ ∂t + ∂ρu ∂x =− ρu F dF dx L TV ∂u ∂t +u ∂u ∂x =− 1 ρ ∂p ∂x P ρ0V 2 (5.1) where L,V ,T ,P, and ρ0 are the scale of length,velocity, time, pressureanddensity, respectively. In equation (5.1), the similarity criteria appeared: L/(VT) = Sh – Strouhal number and P/(ρ0V 2)=Eu – Euler number. Thus, the similarity of impulse water cannons is provided by the following conditions Eu= idem, Sh= idem. Nowanalyse the similarity criteria for the impulse liquid jet.Highvelocity fluidflow interacts strongly with the atmospheric air. Crushing to drops and spray atomization starts at a rate of 100m/s. The final droplet size depends on the jet velocity, air density and physical properties of the fluid during spray fluid atomization under the influence of the aerodynamic forces. Spraying of the jet is a very complex physical phenomenon that is difficult to describe mathematically. Typical forces in the process are: liquid aerodynamic forces Ff ∼ ρfufl2, aerodynamic forces of the gas Fg ∼ ρgugl2, viscous forces Fµ ∼µul and surface tension forces Fσ ∼σl, where l is the characteristic size. TheReynolds number Re= ρfufl/µ, theWeber number We=σ/(ρu 2l) and the dimensionless combination Rl=µ2/(σρl) can be taken as similarity criteria for the jet. The last one includes the Rayleigh stability condition of the jet and can be represented as a function of the Reynolds and Weber numbers Rl = 1/(Re2We). Then the dimensionless diameter of atomized liquid spray should be a function of the criteria Re and We: d/l = f(Re,We). The influence of the viscosity and size of a small jet is determined only by the Weber number at higher Reynolds numbers, which will be the criterion for modeling d l = f(We)= f ( σ ρu2l ) (5.2) Let us now deal with the similarity criteria for the gas torch. Experiments show that the height of the gas jet nozzle depends on the diameter and velocity of the gas jet. Consequently, The usage of high speed impulse liquid jets for putting out gas blowouts 663 the criterion determining the length of the torch should include nozzle diameter, speed of gas that flows from the well and the acceleration of gravity indicating the force of gravity. Experimental studies byWooleys andYarin (1978) showed that themixing processes during combustion of the gas in a torch dependon thedynamicpressure of the jet,whichdetermines the kinetic energy of the flow and its transverse size (diameter). On the basis of these three values, the following dimensionless criterion can be composed that defines the dimensionless length of the freely burning torch KF = w20 2gd0 (5.3) The physical meaning of the aerodynamic similarity criterion consists in the fact that it characterizes the processes of gas mixing with the surrounding atmosphere; these processes depend on the pressure and gas jet thickness. 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