Analysis of flow field characteristics of sand removal hydrocyclone applicable to solid fluidization exploitation of natural gas hydrate

• Na Wei,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China, State Key Laboratory of Natural Gas Hydrate, Beijing, China

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• Yi Qiao ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: qiaoyiswpu@163.com

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China, State Key Laboratory of Natural Gas Hydrate, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9664-9484

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• Shuanshi Fan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Visualization

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China, State Key Laboratory of Natural Gas Hydrate, Beijing, China

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• Meng Cai,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Daqing Oilfield of CNPC, Daqing, China

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• Haitao Li,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China, State Key Laboratory of Natural Gas Hydrate, Beijing, China

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• Shouwei Zhou,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China, State Key Laboratory of Natural Gas Hydrate, Beijing, China

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• Jinzhou Zhao,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China, State Key Laboratory of Natural Gas Hydrate, Beijing, China

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• Liehui Zhang,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China, State Key Laboratory of Natural Gas Hydrate, Beijing, China

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• Richard Banks Coffin

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Physical and Environmental Science, Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, United States of America

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