Detection of oil in water and water in oil emulsions inside a phase separator washing tank

Author

Cardenas, Roberto ; Pena, Ruben

Author_Institution

Magallanes Univ., Punta Arenas

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

332

Abstract

Three sensors to detect water, oil, water in oil or oil in water emulsions inside a phase separator washing tank are described in this paper. These sensors are based in conductivity and capacitive principles. A novel multicell capacitive sensor which can be used to obtain the whole profile of the washing tank, i.e. the position of the air, water, oil and emulsion in the tank is proposed and experimental results discussed

Keywords

capacitive sensors; electrical conductivity measurement; emulsions; oil technology; permittivity measurement; phase separation; conductivity sensor; ferrite cores; interface detection; multicell capacitive sensor; oil content; oil in water emulsions; permittivity measurement; petroleum production; phase separator washing tank; relaxation oscillator; water in oil emulsions; Capacitive sensors; Conductivity; Hydrocarbon reservoirs; Instruments; Particle separators; Petroleum; Phase detection; Production; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Water storage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 1999. IMTC/99. Proceedings of the 16th IEEE

Conference_Location

Venice

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5276-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.1999.776771

Filename

776771