TY - JOUR ID - 73913 TI - Effect of Surfactants on Pressure Drop in Vertical Water-Air and Gas Condensate-Air Two-Phase Vertical Flow JO - Physical Chemistry Research JA - PCR LA - en SN - 2322-5521 AU - Binazadeh, Mojtaba AU - Esmaeilzadeh, Fereidun AU - Farhangian, Hamed AD - Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, School of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery Institute, Advanced Research Group for Gas Condensate Recovery, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, 7134851154 Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 6 IS - 4 SP - 815 EP - 824 KW - Vertical flow KW - Single phase flow KW - Two-phase flow KW - Flow regime KW - Pressure drop KW - Surfactant DO - 10.22036/pcr.2018.145537.1529 N2 - The influence of Sodium dodecyl sulfate and Triton X-100 surfactants on the two-phase pressure drop and two phase flow regime of water-air and gas condensate-air in upward vertical pipe were investigated for various gas/liquid flow rates. Sodium dodecyl sulfate and Triton X-100 reduced the pressure drop of single phase water flow by 11% and 29% compared with that of pure water single phase flow at water velocity of 13 m/s. For condensate single phase flow, Sodium dodecyl sulfate and Triton X-100 reduced the pressure drop by 9% and 17% compared with that of condensate single phase flow with no surfactant at gas condensate velocity of 13 m/s. The maximum efficiency of Sodium dodecyl sulfate and Triton X-100 in reducing the pressure drop of water-air system were 67.1% and 79.8%, respectively, compared with that of pure water-air two-phase flow. For gas condensate-air system, the maximum efficiency of Sodium dodecyl sulfate and Triton X-100 in reducing the pressure drop was 57.1% and 36.7%, respectively, compared to that of pure condensate-air two-phase flow. UR - https://www.physchemres.org/article_73913.html L1 - https://www.physchemres.org/article_73913_0cfc0ee468b6cac6d369176084c291da.pdf ER -