The experimental research of vortex flowmeter in vertical upward oil-gas-water three-phase flow

Author

Sun, Hongjun ; Jiang, Xiangyang ; Sun, Meng ; Wang, Huaxiang ; Cao, Zhang ; Zhang, Tuo

Author_Institution

Coll. of Electr. Eng. & Autom., Tianjin Univ., Tianjin, China

fYear

2010

fDate

3-6 May 2010

Firstpage

244

Lastpage

249

Abstract

An experiment of vortex flowmeter in oil-gas-water vertical upward three phase flow has been reported in this paper. In this research, the diameter of the pipeline is 50mm. The flow of the water varies from 5m³ /h to 8 m³ /h. For the total mixed flow, oil is occupying from 5% to 30%, and the gas proportion of the void fraction is from 1% to 5%. The results show that the measurement error of oil-gas-water three-phase is relatively small and has direct reference value for measuring the oil-gas-water three phase flow. The experiment showed that the volume measured by the vortex flow-meter was less influenced by media with low gas content.

Keywords

flow measurement; flowmeters; multiphase flow; pipe flow; vortices; measurement error; size 50 mm; vertical upward oil gas water three-phase flow; void fraction; volume measurement; vortex flowmeter; Fluid flow measurement; Measurement errors; Petroleum; Phase measurement; Pipelines; Volume measurement; measurement error; oil-gas-water; three-phase flow; vortex flowmeter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2832-8

Electronic_ISBN

1091-5281

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2010.5488073

Filename

5488073