Development of A New Correlation for Estimating Pressure Gradient of Oil- Water Two Phase Flow in A Horizontal Pipe

Subject Areas : Mechanical Engineering

yasha hasanzade ¹ , seyed ali AlaviFazel ² , zoha azizi ³ , seyed mohsen peyghambarzadeh ⁴ , alireza azimi ⁵

1 - Department of Chemical Engineering, Mahshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mahshahr, Iran
2 - Department of Chemical Engineering, Mahshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mahshahr, Iran
3 - Department of Chemical Engineering, Mahshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mahshahr, Iran
4 - Department of Chemical Engineering, Mahshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mahshahr, Iran
5 - Department of Chemical Engineering, Mahshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mahshahr, Iran

Received: 2021-04-23 Accepted : 2021-08-26 Published : 2021-12-01

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