This paper presents results obtained as part of the DeepStar Phase 10 program on VIV Factors of Safety. The objective was to develop a general methodology to calibrate Factors of Safety for VIV-induced fatigue and to apply it to partially straked risers. This was achieved using reliability methods, accepted industry VIV prediction software and state-of-the-art model test experiments. Most oil c...

The pantograph-overhead contact wire system is investigated by using an infrared camera. As the pantograph has a vertical motion because of the non-uniform elasticity of the catenary, in order to detect the temperature along the strip from a sequence of infrared images, a segment-tracking algorithm, based on the Hough transformation, has been employed. An analysis of the stored images could hel...

Top tensioned risers (TTRs) and steel catenary (SCRs) have been widely used in the field of marine engineering. They are commonly to transport fluids from subsea wells surface platforms. Under action ocean currents, these often subjected vortex-induced vibrations (VIVs), which might lead serious fatigue damage. In this study, VIV around TTR SCR were numerically simulated using computational flu...

A numerical study on the response of steel beams to fire and explosion is presented in this paper. First, a unified computing model, which can be used to simulate the behaviour of beams under four loading scenarios that involve fire and explosion or impact, is constructed. The proposed technique allows complete transparency of the influence of the various parameters on the structural behaviour....

Abstract Gas-solid riser flow exhibits strong heterogeneous structure in both axial direction and radial directions. Recent experimental studies reveal that the general radial solids concentration profiles present a double ring structure and the formation of a solid core region which have a relative higher concentration than the annulus region. This paper is focused on a comprehensive modeling ...

The application of Gas-Liquid-solid circulating fluidized beds (GLSCBE) has increased recently in chemical, petrochemical and biochemical industries. Electrical Resistance Tomography (ERT) and optical fibre probe were applied to investigate local phase holdups distribution. Since ERT is applicable only to conductive phase(s), e.g. liquid phase in this study, optical fibre probe was employed sim...

Gas holdup and mixing time were characterized in a forced circulation internal loop draft-tube reactor (unaerated aspect ratio≈ 6, downcomero-riser cross-sectional area ratio = 0.493) as functions of the forced liquid superficial velocity in the riser (ULr) and the gas superficial velocity in he riser (UGr). Data were obtained in air–water system. The operation ranges were 0≤ULr ≤ 0.051 m/s and...

Non-diffracting Bessel beams, including zero-order and high-order Bessel Beams which carry orbital angular momentum (OAM), enable a variety of important applications in optical micromanipulation, sub-diffraction imaging, high speed photonics/quantum communication, etc. The commonly used ways to create Bessel beams, including an axicon or a digital hologram written to a spatial light modulator (...

A gas-liquid-solid inverse  uidization airlift bioreactor was proposed by combining advantages of external-loop airlift reactors and inverse  uidized beds. This airlift bioreactor comprises a gas-liquid riser, a gas separator, a liquid-solid inverse  uidized downcomer and a bottom connector. The effects of the gas velocity and the particle loading on the gas holdup in the riser and the liqui...