The erosion wear mechanism of liquid-solid two-phase high pressure manifold tee pipes

The wall thickness of pressure pipe is often thinned due to the erosion wear, which leads to pipe failure and even safety accidents. In particular, the tee pipe is more prone to be erosive as a key component of transferring fluid with particles. Therefore, the erosion wear mechanism of high pressure manifold tee pipe based on liquid-solid two-phase flow is studied in this paper. Firstly, the standard tee pipe geometry model is established and the grid is divided. And then grid number independence is verified by the percentage difference. According to the structural characteristics of tee pipe, the wear of the inner wall under four different port combinations is predicted. In addition, the relationship between erosion rate and wall shear stress is further analyzed by fluid velocity, particle diameter and mass flow rate. Double tee pipes geometry model was established to explore the erosion wear on the inner walls. The effects of assembly length and different port combinations on erosion wear were discussed respectively. When the inlets are fixed, the wall shear stress distribution of the downstream tee pipe is mainly affected by the outlets. The assembly length mainly affects the erosion rate of the downstream tee pipe.