Abstract:
In the process of CO
2 pipeline transportation, throttling can lead to large CO
2 temperature drop, and consequently threatens the safe operation of the pipeline. In this paper, the steady-state throttling experiment was conducted on CO
2 of different phase states by using the independently designed CO
2 throttling experiment device to acquire internal parameters inside the pipeline. And the influences of pressure difference before and after the throttling, CO
2 phase state before the throttling and impurity N
2 content on the CO
2 temperature drop after steady-state throttling were investigated. It is indicated that CO
2 temperature drop after the throttling increases with the increase of pressure difference before and after the throttling and decreases with the increase of N
2 content. The throttling effect of CO
2 is the strongest at gas state, secondly at supercritical state and the weakest at liquid state. As for the same pressure difference, the higher the pressure before the throttling, the smaller the CO
2 temperature drop after the throttling. In addition, the CO
2 temperature drop after the throttling is less affected by the pressure before the throttling at gas state than at liquid states.