Two-phase coriolis mass flow metering with high viscosity oil

Michael Tombs; Feibiao Zhou; Manus Henry

doi:10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2017.11.009

Two-phase coriolis mass flow metering with high viscosity oil

Michael Tombs, Feibiao Zhou, Manus Henry

University of Oxford

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Abstract

Previous work has described the use of Coriolis mass flow metering for multiphase flows, with applications in the oil and gas industry. This paper describes the development and testing of a Coriolis two-phase flow metering solution for nitrogen/synthetic oil mixtures with viscosities ranging from 50 cSt to 500 cSt, and with Gas Volume Fractions (GVFs) ranging from 0% to 90%. Formal trials took place at the UK National Flow Laboratory. A single synthetic oil was used; its viscosity was adjusted by controlling temperature. The results show that Coriolis metering is well suited to high viscosity oil/gas mixtures: in the formalized trials, mass flow errors for gas were mostly within 5% and for liquid were mostly within 2.5%. Achieving this accuracy up to 90% GVF represents an advance on previous work, which has been limited to around 50% GVF for low viscosity oils in two-phase and three-phase mixtures.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	23-27
Number of pages	5
Journal	Flow Measurement and Instrumentation
Volume	59
Early online date	22 Nov 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2017.11.009
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2018
Externally published	Yes

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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Flow Measurement and Instrumentation. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Flow Measurement and Instrumentation, [59] (2017)] DOI: 10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2017.11.009

© 2017, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Keywords

Coriolis
High viscosity oil
Mass flow
Multi phase flow
Neural net
Oil and gas
Two phase flow

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Modelling and Simulation
Instrumentation
Computer Science Applications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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