Numerical Investigation of Adiabatic Ice Slurry Flow through a Horizontal T–Shaped Pipe

Ice slurry has a huge application in the field of refrigeration and space cooling due to its high energy storage and transport capability. During transportation of ice slurry, various bends, junctions, and bifurcations are the essential parts of any pipeline network. In the present study, numerical simulation has been carried out on ice slurry flow through a horizontal T-shaped pipe of 23 mm diameter. The length of each section of the T-shaped pipe (inlet and both bifurcated branches) are equal to 50 times of the pipe diameter. The Eulerian granular multiphase model with the per phase k–ε turbulence model have been adopted for simulation. The investigation has been performed for the flow velocity that varied from 1 to 3 m/s and the ice concentrations ranging from 10 to 30