Experimental Study on Pressure Drop of Bends in Dense Phase Pneumatic Conveying under high pressure

The transport test using nitrogen as conveying gas are carried out at high operating pressure up to 4MPa in the experimental equipment for dense phase pneumatic conveying. The transport powders in the experiment are anthracite coal and petroleum coke. The pressure drop characteristics in bends are acquired with the different transport powder. The experimental results show that under the similar mass flow, the pressure drop of vertical upward bend is greater than the horizontal bend and the horizontal bend is greater than the vertical downward bend at the same superficial gas velocity, while there is a best superficial gas velocity minimizes the pressure drop of the bend. Under the similar mass flow rate and the similar particle size, the pressure drop of the bend with the petroleum coke is greater than the pressure drop with the anthracite coal as the same superficial gas velocity. According to Barth's additional pressure drop method, the pressure drop fitting formulas of the vertical upward bend, the horizontal bend and the vertical downward bend are obtained, and the predicted results are in accordance with that of the experiments.