BHR Group has worked on multiphase flow and three-phase mixing for many years. Now, together with partners from industry and academia, we have been successful in winning funding for new research into multiphase measurement and modelling.

The Project
A 2-year collaborative research project to develop new measurement techniques and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling methods for complex flows in highly turbulent, highly gassed flows such as those found in multiphase, stirred tank chemical reactors..

The Partners
A consortium of leading UK SME's, a major diversified oil and gas company and academic partners, led by BHR Group, world leading experts in mixing.

Government Funding
The consortium has succeeded in winning over £600,000 funding from the UK Department of Trade And Industry's Technology Programme

For more information, contact:

Andrew Green
BHR Group Limited
Cranfield, Bedfordshire MK43 0AJ
Tel: +44 (0)1234 750422
Email: solutions1@bhrgroup.com

The Work Programme

Stream One: Instrumentation
This stream will develop new instrumentation. Industrial Tomography Systems (ITS) and University of Leeds will work together to develop a rapid tomography instrument, which can potentially be used to produce 3-D flow maps in real time. In addition, techniques to determine bubble behaviour in highly gassed systems will be developed by Leeds University and BHR Group to aid understanding of these complex phenomena.

Stream Two: Modelling
In this stream, BHR Group will work with BP to develop CFD modelling techniques for such complex systems. Whilst CFD of stirred tank reactors has developed significantly over recent years, substantial challenges remain, particularly for highly gassed systems. The project hopes to address many of these challenges and move the state of the art forward towards creating fully predictive models for highly turbulent and highly gassed systems.

Stream Three: Experimental Validation
The project will conclude by bringing together the two streams through an experimental programme to validate both measurement and modelling techniques.