Two-Phase Flow Metering By Pressure Pulse Propagation

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.-S. Gudmundsson ◽  
L. Dong ◽  
F. Rodoy
2021 ◽  
pp. 014459872199978
Author(s):  
Bingyu Ji ◽  
Yingfu He ◽  
Yongqiang Tang ◽  
Shu Yang

The low-frequency pulse wave makes the velocity of the fluid in the reservoir fluctuate dramatically, which results in a remarkable inertia force. The Darcy’s law was inapplicable to the pulse flow with strong effect of inertial force. In this paper, the non-Darcy flow equation and the calculation method of capillary number of pressure pulse displacement are established. The pressure pulse experiments of single-phase and two- phase flow are carried out. The results show that the periodic change of velocity can decrease the seepage resistance and enhance apparent permeability by generating the inertial force. The higher the pulse frequency improves the apparent permeability by enhancing influence of inertial force. The increase of apparent permeability of high permeability core is larger than that of low permeability core, which indicates that inertial force is more prominent in high permeability reservoir. For the water-oil two-phase flow, inertia force makes the relative permeability curve move towards right, and the equal permeability point becomes higher. In other words, with the increase of capillary number, part of residual oil is activated, and the displacement efficiency is improved.


1983 ◽  
Vol 105 (4) ◽  
pp. 394-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Pascal

The effect of solution gas on the two-phase flow behavior through an orifice plate and a convergent-divergent nozzle has been investigated with regard to the flow metering of compressible two-phase mixtures. A proper thermodynamics approach to consider more accurately the compressibility effect in an accelerated two-phase flow, in particular that through an orifice and Laval’s nozzle in the presence of the solution gas, has been developed. From this approach an equation of state of mixture was derived and used in determining the orifice equation. An analysis of flow behavior has been performed and several illustrative plots were presented in order to evaluate the gas solubility effect in the flow metering with an orifice plate or a convergent-divergent nozzle. A delimitation between critical and noncritical flow has been established in terms of measured parameters and a relationship between the critical pressure and gas-liquid mass ratio was also shown.


2011 ◽  
Vol 383-390 ◽  
pp. 4922-4927
Author(s):  
Peng Xia Xu ◽  
Yan Feng Geng

Wet gas flow is a typical two-phase flow with low liquid fractions. As differential pressure signal contains rich information of flow parameters in two-phase flow metering, a new method is proposed for wet gas flow metering based on differential pressure (DP) and blind source separation (BSS) techniques. DP signals are from a couple of slotted orifices and the BSS method is based on time-frequency analysis. A good relationship between the liquid flow rate and the characteristic quantity of the separated signal is established, and a differential pressure correlation for slotted orifice is applied to calculate the gas flow rate. The calculation results are good with 90% relative errors less than ±10%. The results also show that BSS is an effective method to extract liquid flow rate from DP signals of wet gas flow, and to analysis different interactions among the total DP readings.


2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 399-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manus Henry ◽  
Michael Tombs ◽  
Mihaela Duta ◽  
Feibiao Zhou ◽  
Ronaldo Mercado ◽  
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1962 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Murdock

This paper presents a practical method for computing two-phase flow rates through AGA-ASME stamdard orifice meters to a tolerance of 1.5 per cent. A rational equation is developed modifying the present single-phase metering equation by the introduction of one experimentally determined constant and permitting the use of data already contained in the ASME Fluid Meters Research Committee publications. Equations are also given for computing the two-phase flow of natural gas using the American Gas Association Report No. 3. No additional data are needed for the solution of two-phase flow metering problems. The experimental constant is derived from the analysis of 90 test points for two phase flow of steam-water, air-water, natural gas-water, natural gas-salt water, and natural gas-distillate combinations. Three separate test series are described for orifices equipped with radius, flange, and pipe tap locations in 2 1/2, 3, and 4-inch pipe with beta ratios ranging from 0.25 to 0.50. Pressures ranged from atmospheric to 920 psia, differentials from 10 to 500 inches of water, and liquid weight fractions from 2 to 89 per cent. Temperatures were from 50 to 500 F and Reynolds numbers for the liquid from 50 to 50,000 and for the gas from 15,000 to 1,000,000. These data were correlated to a standard deviation of 0.75 per cent. The areas where further research is needed to increase the universality of the two-phase metering equation are delineated.


2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Meribout ◽  
Nabeel Al-Rawahi ◽  
Ahmed Al-Naamany ◽  
Ali Al-Bimani ◽  
Khamis Al-Busaidi ◽  
...  

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