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Pipe Sizing — Pressure Drop and Erosional Velocity

FIG. 2  |  Crane TP-410 Darcy-Weisbach  |  API RP 14E erosional  |  Beggs & Brill (two-phase)
Document / QMS Info
Phase & Pipe Selection
ft (equiv.)
in
Gas Properties
lb/hr
lb/lbmol
cP
mol frac
mol frac
mol frac
Liquid Properties
lb/hr
lb/ft³
cP
dyne/cm
Operating Conditions
°F
psia
Erosional Velocity
Select phase, pipe size, and click Size Pipe to calculate pressure drop and erosional velocity.

Method

Pressure drop from Crane TP-410 Darcy-Weisbach: ΔP = f × (L/D) × (ρV²/2), with friction factor f from Colebrook-White solved iteratively. Equivalent length for fittings is user-supplied via the pipe length input.

Erosional velocity per API RP 14E: V_e = C / sqrt(ρ_mix) with mixture density from the gas and liquid mass flows at line conditions. Default C = 100 for continuous flow in non-corrosive service.

Two-phase pressure drop uses Beggs & Brill with flow-regime classification (segregated, intermittent, distributed) and inclination correction. Liquid holdup is the Mukherjee-Brill modification for the chosen regime.

Gas density from Peng-Robinson EOS with GPSA pseudo-critical mixing rules. CO₂, H₂S, and N₂ corrections per GPSA Section 23.