Experiments with scale models of oil collectors for subsea well blowouts — Part II |
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| Authors: | Jerome H Milgram Christopher J Von Alt James J Burgess |
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| Institution: | Department of Ocean Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA |
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| Abstract: | A previous paper of the same title indicated the feasibility of the collection of oil by an open bottom collector above a blowout with a marine riser above the collector; the whole collection system being driven by gas lift from the blowout gas. That paper was based on small-scale laboratory experiments and it identified the salient dimensionless parameters governing those experiments. This paper describes laboratory experiments on a refinement of the collection system and also describes the results of intermediate scale experiments. The length scale of these experiments was about four times greater than laboratory scale and about one-fourth of full scale. Generally, the intermediate scale results are consistent with the laboratory predictions. Furthermore, two scale-dependent parameters have been identified. The effects of these have been included in an analysis of the results. |
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