On-line measurement of separation dynamics in primary gas/oil/water separators: Challenges and technical solutions—A review

AJ Jaworski, G Meng - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2009 - Elsevier
The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of the current measurement
technologies available for on-line monitoring of the performance of the gas/oil/water …

Ultrasonic detection of moving interfaces in gas–liquid two-phase flow

Y Murai, Y Tasaka, Y Nambu, Y Takeda - Flow Measurement and …, 2010 - Elsevier
Ultrasound reflects strongly off the gas–liquid interface when there is a large change in
acoustic impedance. We exploit this phenomenon to detect the instantaneous position of the …

Ultrasound flow-monitoring and flow-metering of air–oil–water three-layer pipe flows

J Hitomi, Y Murai, HJ Park, Y Tasaka - IEEE access, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The combined use of ultrasound pulse-echo intensity and Doppler shift frequency is
examined as a means to measure strong unsteady three-phase pipe flows of a gas and two …

Backlight imaging tomography for gas–liquid two-phase flow in a helically coiled tube

Y Murai, H Oiwa, T Sasaki, K Kondou… - Measurement …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
Air–water two-phase flow in a helically coiled tube is investigated using backlight imaging
tomography to elucidate the effect of centrifugal acceleration on phase distribution and …

X-ray computed tomography in large bubble columns

JL Hubers, AC Striegel, TJ Heindel, JN Gray… - Chemical Engineering …, 2005 - Elsevier
X-ray computed tomography (CT) is used to explore the differences in a semi-batch bubble
column operated at superficial gas velocities of Ug= 3, 10, and 18cm/s. Air–water or air …

Multimodality tomography for multiphase hydrocarbon flow measurements

BT Hjertaker, SA Tjugum, EA Hammer… - IEEE sensors …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multimodality sensing is used for monitoring of multiphase hydrocarbon flow where there is
a need to measure the quantity of oil, water and gas in a cross section of a pipe originating …

Water holdup measurement in kerosene–water two-phase flows

SF Huang, XG Zhang, D Wang… - … Science and Technology, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper proposes an intrusive method for measurement of water holdup based on water
layer thickness in horizontal pipes. Water layer thickness is measured by a capacitance …

Upstream multiphase flow assurance monitoring using acoustic emission

S Al-Lababidi, D Mba, A Addali - Acoustic Emission, 2012 - books.google.com
Multiphase flow assurance in oil and gas upstream industries covers a wide range of flow
conditions. Over the last decade, the investigations and developments of multiphase flow …

Dimensionality reduced simultaneous iterative reconstruction technique for electrical resistance tomography

S Ren, J Zhao, F Dong - Flow Measurement and Instrumentation, 2015 - Elsevier
With the advantages of non-invasion, non-radiation, low-cost and high-speed, electrical
resistance tomography (ERT) is suitable for online measurement of multiphase flow inside a …

Backlight imaging tomography for slug flows in straight and helical tubes

Y Murai, K Inaba, Y Takeda, F Yamamoto - Flow Measurement and …, 2007 - Elsevier
Backlight imaging tomography is used to experimentally investigate interfacial structures of
gas–liquid two-phase flow in circular tubes. The tomography method is based on the …