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The local resistance characteristic of the micro throat may be an important factor affecting oil recovery ratio, which is also a problem of both percolation mechanics and multiphase microfluidics. In this paper, rectangular microchannels had been etched on the silicon slice with the technic of microfluidics, one of which is a straight channel with no throat and the other three with one throat respectively. The three throats are different in dynamic diameter; however, the four channels are exactly the same when the throats are ignored. Experiments had been conducted to investigate the local pressure drop characteristics of water single-phase and oil-in-water two-phase flow throw the micro throats. The results indicate that the local pressure drop is larger when the dynamic diameter of the throat is smaller at the same flow rate. In addition, the local pressure drop of the micro throat is the quadratic polynomial function of flow rate, the intercept of which is zero. The first power term of the function indicates the frictional resistance and the quadratic one indicates the inlet and outlet effect. Furthermore, the trend of the prediction model and the experimental data is the same, in spite of deviation of their values, which indicates that the prediction of the term of the inlet and outlet effect is comparatively accurate and that of the frictional resistance term is not quite accurate. These results may be caused by some micro perimeters such as surface tension, surface wettability and so on, and further research is necessary. © 2019, Science Press. All right reserved.
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Kung Cheng Je Wu Li Hsueh Pao/Journal of Engineering Thermophysics
ISSN: 0253-231X
Year: 2019
Issue: 8
Volume: 40
Page: 1835-1839
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