TURBOPOC
Eliminating turbulence in oil pipelines
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Project "TURBOPOC" data sheet
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| Coordinator |
INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYAUSTRIA
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| Coordinator Country | Austria [AT] |
| Total cost | 149˙830 € |
| EC max contribution | 149˙830 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)) |
| Code Call | ERC-2016-PoC |
| Funding Scheme | ERC-POC |
| Starting year | 2017 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2017-07-01 to 2018-12-31 |
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| 1 | INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYAUSTRIA | AT (KLOSTERNEUBURG) | coordinator | 149˙830.00 |
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Project objective
Proof of Concept TURBO FLOW Virtually all pipeline flows are highly turbulent. What is probably less well known is that the major part of the frictional losses in pipelines is caused by turbulence. Already at moderate speeds turbulence is responsible for a 50% drag increase while at high speeds (i.e. high Reynolds numbers) this figure can easily increase to 99%. Annual global pumping costs for oil pipelines alone amount to tens of billions of Euros. If instead the fluid could be maintained in the well-ordered “laminar” motion, pumping costs would drop dramatically. Up to now no methods existed that could convert fully turbulent flows in pipes back to laminar. In the course of the ERC project TURBOFLOW we discovered such a method and we demonstrated that under ideal laboratory conditions a fully turbulent flow can be completely relaminarized and as a consequence friction losses are reduced by as much as 80%. The aim is now to push this technology from the laboratory to practically realistic situations by testing the method in an oil pipe, closely matching the conditions in real pipeline flows.
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 |
J. Kühnen, D. Scarselli, M. Schaner, B. Hof Relaminarization by Steady Modification of the Streamwise Velocity Profile in a Pipe published pages: 919-943, ISSN: 1386-6184, DOI: 10.1007/s10494-018-9896-4 |
Flow, Turbulence and Combustion 100/4 | 2019-05-25 |
| 2018 |
Jakob Kühnen, Baofang Song, Davide Scarselli, Nazmi Burak Budanur, Michael Riedl, Ashley P. Willis, Marc Avila, Björn Hof Destabilizing turbulence in pipe flow published pages: 386-390, ISSN: 1745-2473, DOI: 10.1038/s41567-017-0018-3 |
Nature Physics 14/4 | 2019-05-25 |
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