A simple and valuable method for detecting levels of interface of oil -water and oil layer

Author

Lu, Guirong ; Hu, Hao ; Duan, Suolin ; Wang, Hongyuan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Jiangsu Polytech. Univ., Changzhou, China

fYear

2009

fDate

18-21 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

1836

Lastpage

1839

Abstract

A new method for monitoring two levels of interface of oil-water and oil layer is proposed in this paper. The method aims to estimate the two levels of oil and water in single tank. Different from popular way, a sensor with a simple structure from parallel-plate capacitor has been developed. One electrode of the sensor has been divided into two parts from diagonal line by a small crack. According to relationships between the capacitances measured from electrodes and two levels of interface of oil-water and oil layer, formulas for estimating the two levels have been derived and tested. The experimental results indicate that responses of the designed sensor are very satisfactory. Therefore, this is a simple and useful method, and the sensor is also worthy to be product.

Keywords

capacitive sensors; level measurement; oil technology; tanks (containers); capacitance measurement; interface level detection method; level monitoring; oil-water mixture; parallel-plate capacitor sensor; petroleum exploitation process; Capacitance measurement; Capacitive sensors; Chemical sensors; Dielectric measurements; Electrodes; Monitoring; Petroleum; Sensor arrays; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Ultrasonic variables measurement; capacitance sensor; interface of oil-water; level; method;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ICCAS-SICE, 2009

Conference_Location

Fukuoka

Print_ISBN

978-4-907764-34-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-4-907764-33-3

Type

conf

Filename

5333001