CHANGES IN ENERGY CHARACTERISTICS OF PIPELINE SYSTEMS CONSIDERING HYDRODYNAMIC LOADS

Abstract

Pipeline transport is one of the most capital and metal-intensive types of transport. Being environmentally friendly during normal operation, it can cause irreparable damage to nature in case of accidents. Therefore, the issues of reliability and efficiency of operation of field and main oil and gas pipelines and control of energy characteristics during their operation are of no small importance. The amount of additional pressure in the system from hydrodynamic shocks is determined by the density and elasticity of the pumped liquid, as well as the elasticity of the walls of the pipeline itself. The article considers the problem of estimating the critical speed and dynamic loads during the movement of multiphase flows through pipelines, taking into account the interaction of the phases. Dynamic loads are calculated based on the change in critical speed for various structural forms formed as a result of the interaction of phases. These loads, compared to shell structures with separated phases, turned out to be less than when moving in a mold with dispersed bubble structures. The characteristics of the critical speed distribution are determined. It has been determined that the dynamic loads arising in multiphase flows with a predominance of the gas phase are many times higher than in systems where the liquid phase is the leading medium, and the dependence of the pressure distribution on the densities of the phases has been shown. The work analyzes various modes of hydraulic shock. The volume of oil caused by its compression during hydraulic shock was calculated. The results of calculating the increase in the volume of an oil pipeline due to a dynamic impact are presented.