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Liquid holdup correlation for horizontal, vertical and inclined two-phase flow

Article · July 1994

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 Liquid holdup correlation for horizontal, vertical
and inclined two-phase flow

G.H. Abdul-Majeed

Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME, (Paper) SPE

July 1994, 17p

Abstract
This paper presents a new correlation for estimating liquid holdup in horizontal, vertical and
inclined upward two-phase flow. The correlation is based on 112 pressure profiles consisting
of 960 field measured pressure losses (340 tests for horizontal, 500 for vertical and 120 for
inclined flow) cover very wide range of all flow parameters. The liquid holdup values that
satisfied the measured pressure data are calculated using Beggs-Brill pressure loss correlation
for horizontal flow and Mukherjee-Brill pressure loss correlation for vertical and inclined flow.
The proposed correlation is a function of liquid velocity number, gas velocity number, liquid
viscosity number, pipe diameter number, Froude number, no-slip holdup and angle of
inclination. Since these parameters form the independent variables defining flow patterns,
inclusion of them in the proposed correlation, makes it flow-pattern dependent. The new
correlation is consistent with the previous investigators discovery that liquid holdup reaches the
maximum value at angle of approximately 50 °. Based on the statistical results, the proposed
correlation proves to be more accurate than all the existing holdup correlations when tested
against the present data bank (960 points) and against measured data from literature (111
points). It is also observed, based on measured pressure data from literature (61 points), that
the performance of the existing pressure loss correlations can be improved using the newly
developed liquid holdup correlation.

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