Velocity profile measurement in oil/gas flows [using capacitance tomography]

Author

Hayes, D.G. ; Gregory, I.A. ; Beck, M.S.

Author_Institution

Sondex Geophysical Equipment, Hook, UK

fYear

1995

fDate

34830

Firstpage

42370

Lastpage

42375

Abstract

This paper describes a capacitance tomography system for imaging oil/gas flows in circular pipes. The system is capable of computing the distribution of each component of a flow at two adjacent cross-sections in real-time. These two images are then cross-correlated off-line to obtain velocity profile measurements of the gaseous component. Extensive tests have been performed on a 3 inch diameter, two-phase flow loop; superficial oil velocities ranged from 0.1 to 0.8 m/s, and superficial gas velocities ranged from 0.05 to 0.5 m/s. Some typical component distribution and velocity profile measurements are presented

Keywords

capacitance measurement; computerised tomography; electric sensing devices; flow visualisation; flowmeters; image reconstruction; oil technology; pipe flow; two-phase flow; 0.05 to 0.5 m/s; 0.1 to 0.8 m/s; capacitance sensor; capacitance tomography system; circular pipes; component distribution profiles; cross-correlated; flow imaging; image reconstruction; off-line analysis; oil/gas flows; real-time imaging; two-phase flow loop; velocity profile measurements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Innovations in Instrumentation for Electrical Tomography, IEE Colloquium on

Conference_Location

London

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/ic:19950636

Filename

477988