SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, NO-7465 Trondheim, Norway.
Mar Pollut Bull. 2013 Aug 15;73(1):327-35. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.04.012. Epub 2013 May 9.
A new method for prediction of droplet size distributions from subsea oil and gas releases is presented in this paper. The method is based on experimental data obtained from oil droplet breakup experiments conducted in a new test facility at SINTEF. The facility is described in a companion paper, while this paper deals with the theoretical basis for the model and the empirical correlations used to derive the model parameters from the available data from the test facility. A major issue dealt with in this paper is the basis for extrapolation of the data to full scale (blowout) conditions. Possible contribution from factors such as buoyancy flux and gas void fraction are discussed and evaluated based on results from the DeepSpill field experiment.
本文提出了一种从海底油气泄漏中预测液滴尺寸分布的新方法。该方法基于在 SINTEF 的新试验设施中进行的油滴破裂实验获得的实验数据。该设施在一篇相关论文中进行了描述，而本文则涉及模型的理论基础以及从试验设施可用数据中推导出模型参数的经验相关性。本文处理的一个主要问题是将数据外推到全尺寸（喷井）条件的基础。根据 DeepSpill 现场实验的结果，讨论并评估了浮力通量和气体空隙率等因素的可能贡献。
