Title of article
A MONTE CARLO MODEL FOR THE DETERMINATION OF THE VOLUME FRACTIONS OF CRUDE OIL, WATER AND NATURAL GAS USING THE DUAL ENERGY γ-RAY TRANSMISSION
Author/Authors
Rizk, R.A. Helwan University - Faculty of Science - Physics Department, Egypt , Hassan, A.F. Helwan University - Faculty of Science - Physics Department, Egypt , Mohamed, A.S. Suzanne Mubarak Science Exploration Center, Egypt
From page
49
To page
60
Abstract
The extraction of petroleum from its geological reservoirs involves the piping of crude oil, water and natural gas from the wells as a multiphase mixture. Knowledge of the mass flow rate of each component is required to control production.In this work, this multiphase flow has been pictured as a coarse-grained component system, water as drops and natural gas as bubbles, both are carried out through the crude oil along the pipeline. According to this picture, a Monte Carlomodel for grain size dependent gamma-ray attenuation has been constructed and applied to determine the volume fractions of oil, water and natural gas in pipelines by using gamma-ray transmission technique.
Keywords
grain , size , volume fractions , Monte Carlo method
Journal title
Journal of Nuclear and Radiation Physics
Journal title
Journal of Nuclear and Radiation Physics
Record number
2672658
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