Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, Volume. 45, Issue 1, 231(2025)
Experimental Study on the Void Fraction Determination of Gas-Oil Two-Phase Flow in Elbow Based on Spectral Analysis
When air is entrained into the engine lubricating oil system to form an oil and gas two-phase flow, it will seriously affect the normal operation of the lubrication system. Therefore, it is very important to realize the accurate and rapid measurement of the void fraction of the oil-gas two-phase flow in the engine lubricating oil system. This paper determines the void fraction in the engine lubrication system at the elbow based on the spectral matching method. Firstly, the absorption data of oil-gas two-phase flow were obtained at two flow rates and five temperature conditions, covering a gas content range of 0.10% to 1.00% (with an interval of 0.06%). This was accomplished by utilizing near-infrared, visible, and ultraviolet spectrophotometers, followed by rigorous analysis. It was ascertained that the oil-gas two-phase flow demonstrates absorption across all three wavelengths, with the intensity of absorption being correlated to the gas content. Secondly, the data preprocessing method combined with spectral similarity measure is proposed and applied to the gas content spectral analysis of bent pipe, significantly reducing the maximum relative error of gas content prediction based on the original spectrum. Using data enhancement methods such as center and autoscaling combined with Spectral Angle Cosine methods in the near-infrared spectrum, the maximum relative error of the gas content of the new lubricating oil was reduced from 48% to 36% relative to the original spectrum. The method predicts the void fraction of gas-oil two-phase flow in three bands respectively. The experimental conditions include two flow rates and five temperatures, and the influence of the temperature and flow rate of the two-phase flow on the void fraction prediction is analyzed. At the temperature of 30.0 ℃ and the flow rate of 5.1 m·min-1, the gas content information in the ultraviolet band (193.5~413.8 nm) is more closely related to the spectral feature of the direction or shape difference of the spectral vector and the maximum relative error of the gas content prediction is only 6%. In the near-infrared and visible bands, the maximum relative error decreases with the increase of temperature or velocity when the flow rate or temperature is constant. There is no specific effect of temperature on the prediction of gas content in the ultraviolet band. With the increase of the two-phase flow rate, the maximum relative error of gas content prediction tends to increase. The results show that for new lubricating oil with good light transmittance, the gas content data is collected by the ultraviolet spectrometer, and the maximum relative error of gas content prediction is minimum by using standardized pretreatment combined with spectral Angle cosine method.
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CHE Shao-min, MA Shi-yi, LIU Xue-jing, YIN Xiong, ZHOU Yan, XIONG Bing, LI Kun, LI Fei. Experimental Study on the Void Fraction Determination of Gas-Oil Two-Phase Flow in Elbow Based on Spectral Analysis[J]. Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, 2025, 45(1): 231
Received: Mar. 12, 2024
Accepted: Feb. 28, 2025
Published Online: Feb. 28, 2025
The Author Email: Yan ZHOU (yan.zhou@mail.xjtu.edu.cn)