16.1.2 Examples of Multiphase Systems

Specific examples of each regime described in Section  16.1.1 are listed below:

• Bubbly flow examples include absorbers, aeration, air lift pumps, cavitation, evaporators, flotation, and scrubbers.

• Droplet flow examples include absorbers, atomizers, combustors, cryogenic pumping, dryers, evaporation, gas cooling, and scrubbers.

• Slug flow examples include large bubble motion in pipes or tanks.

• Stratified/free-surface flow examples include sloshing in offshore separator devices and boiling and condensation in nuclear reactors.

• Particle-laden flow examples include cyclone separators, air classifiers, dust collectors, and dust-laden environmental flows.

• Pneumatic transport examples include transport of cement, grains, and metal powders.

• Fluidized bed examples include fluidized bed reactors and circulating fluidized beds.

• Slurry flow examples include slurry transport and mineral processing

• Hydrotransport examples include mineral processing and biomedical and physiochemical fluid systems

• Sedimentation examples include mineral processing.