Multiphase flow reconstruction in oil pipelines by portable capacitance tomography

A portable capacitance tomography system for real-time imaging of multiphase flows is developed and presented in this work. The earlier research shows that the Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) System is applicable in flow visualization (image reconstruction). The acquired concentration profile that obtains from capacitance measurements is able to imaging liquid and gas mixture in pipelines meanwhile the system development is designed to attach on a vessel. The electrode plates which act as the sensor has been assembled and fixed on the pipeline, thus it causes difficulty for the production to have any new process installation in the future. Therefore portable capacitance is a new approach technology on ECT system. The purpose of the system is for on-line monitoring of concentration profile in multiphase flow-rate measurement system for oil, water and gas flow in oil pipelines.