A measurement method of slug flow velocity of gas-liquid two-phase flow in horizontal pipe

Slug flow is an important flow regime of gas/liquid two-phase flow. The parameters measurements of slug flow are of great importance in scientific and engineering field. Local cross-correlation method is put forward in this paper to make the mixed velocity measurement of slug flow. Different from normal cross-correlation method, this local cross-correlation make direct use of electrode voltage data and gives detail velocity information of the cross-section. According to the electrode distribution in the pipe cross-section, the excitation manners have been sorted into 3 kinds and measured electrodes have been cut into 9 sorts. A static experiment is carried out to testify and concretely analyze the sensitivity difference of different excitation manners and different located measuring electrodes. Results of static experiment verify the above sorting manner and show that different excitation manner and different measured area has its own apparent data feature and. In this local cross correlation method, only selected electrode pairs instead of all electrodes as normal data process participate in excitation process. So the system efficiency has improved, and as a consequence the velocity resolution of cross correlation is improved. The dynamic experiment result shows the efficiency of this local cross-correlation method and the experiment error is within 10%.