Has anyone had experience with calculation of frost bulb growth surrounding a buried chilled pipeline? If so, a link or some tips would be greatly appreciated. I have searched long and hard and have not found anything of use, so if anyone here has experience, I would love to discuss the topic. Thanks.
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Chilled Pipeline and Frost Heaving
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dicksewerrat
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Talk to people in the pipeline industry that work with nat. gas.
The people at Arctic Foundations may be of help. Their thermosyphon freezes ground, though usually in a vertical application.
You can get software to do this-
Look in Chapter 12 of this publication for equations for heat loss from buried pipes:
A basic Arctic foundation textbook usually includes "freezeback pile" calculations - time to freeze a soil-water slurry in the annular space around a pile placed in permafrost. This is similar, but in a reverse direction, to your problem. You can find the process/equations for this in Chapter 4 of:
You can get software to do this-
Look in Chapter 12 of this publication for equations for heat loss from buried pipes:
A basic Arctic foundation textbook usually includes "freezeback pile" calculations - time to freeze a soil-water slurry in the annular space around a pile placed in permafrost. This is similar, but in a reverse direction, to your problem. You can find the process/equations for this in Chapter 4 of:
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