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Article

Three-Dimensional Analysis of Air-Admission Orifices in Pipelines during Hydraulic Drainage Events

by
Duban A. Paternina-Verona
1,*,
Oscar E. Coronado-Hernández
1,
Hector G. Espinoza-Román
2,
Mohsen Besharat
3,
Vicente S. Fuertes-Miquel
4 and
Helena M. Ramos
5
1
Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, Cartagena 131001, Colombia
2
Grupo INMEDIT S.A.S., Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Cartagena, Cartagena 130001, Colombia
3
School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
4
Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
5
Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources, CERIS, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2022, 14(21), 14600; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142114600
Submission received: 30 September 2022 / Revised: 24 October 2022 / Accepted: 31 October 2022 / Published: 7 November 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Planning, Management and Utilization of Water Resources)
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Abstract

Air valves operate as protection devices in pipelines during drainage processes in order to mitigate vacuum pressures and control the transient flows. Currently, different authors have proposed one-dimensional models to predict the behaviour of orifices during filling and draining events, which offer good numerical results. However, the three-dimensional dynamic behaviour of air-admission orifices during drainage processes has not been studied in depth in the literature. In this research, the effects of air inflow on an orifice installed in a single pipe during drainage events are analysed using a three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics model by testing orifices with diameters of 1.5 and 3.0 mm. This model was validated with different experimental measurements associated to the vacuum pressure, obtaining good fits. The three-dimensional model predicts additional information associated to the aerodynamic effects that occur during the air-admission processes, which is studied. Subsonic flows are observed in different orifices with Mach numbers between 0.18 and 0.30. In addition, it is shown that the larger-diameter orifice ensures a more effective airflow control compared to the smaller-diameter orifice.
Keywords: air inflow; orifice; vacuum pressure; three-dimensional model air inflow; orifice; vacuum pressure; three-dimensional model

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Paternina-Verona, D.A.; Coronado-Hernández, O.E.; Espinoza-Román, H.G.; Besharat, M.; Fuertes-Miquel, V.S.; Ramos, H.M. Three-Dimensional Analysis of Air-Admission Orifices in Pipelines during Hydraulic Drainage Events. Sustainability 2022, 14, 14600. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142114600

AMA Style

Paternina-Verona DA, Coronado-Hernández OE, Espinoza-Román HG, Besharat M, Fuertes-Miquel VS, Ramos HM. Three-Dimensional Analysis of Air-Admission Orifices in Pipelines during Hydraulic Drainage Events. Sustainability. 2022; 14(21):14600. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142114600

Chicago/Turabian Style

Paternina-Verona, Duban A., Oscar E. Coronado-Hernández, Hector G. Espinoza-Román, Mohsen Besharat, Vicente S. Fuertes-Miquel, and Helena M. Ramos. 2022. "Three-Dimensional Analysis of Air-Admission Orifices in Pipelines during Hydraulic Drainage Events" Sustainability 14, no. 21: 14600. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142114600

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Paternina-Verona, D. A., Coronado-Hernández, O. E., Espinoza-Román, H. G., Besharat, M., Fuertes-Miquel, V. S., & Ramos, H. M. (2022). Three-Dimensional Analysis of Air-Admission Orifices in Pipelines during Hydraulic Drainage Events. Sustainability, 14(21), 14600. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142114600

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