Z. Zhou et al., A MATHEMATICAL-MODEL AND ITS ANALYTICAL SOLUTION FOR SLOW DEPRESSURIZATION OF A GAS-FILLED VESSEL, Journal of engineering mathematics, 31(1), 1997, pp. 43-57
The operation safety of depressurizing a high-pressure gas-filled vess
el is of crucial importance in petroleum, chemical and biological proc
essing industries. The present study describes a simple model of a slo
w depressurization process and derives its analytical solution in a re
currence form. This analytical solution is expected to be useful for e
ngineering applications and for the assessment of either detailed nume
rical simulations or experimental data.