A Multisensor Intelligent Device for Real-Time Multiphase Flow Metering in Oil Fields

Autor:	Mahmoud Meribout, K. Al-Busaidi, Ahmed M. Al-Naamany, Nabeel Al-Rawahi, Ali S. Al-Bimani, Adel Meribout
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Multiphase flow meter Engineering Signal processing business.industry Water flow Acoustics Multiphase flow Intelligent sensor Approximation error Electronic engineering Ultrasonic sensor Metering mode Electrical and Electronic Engineering business Instrumentation
Zdroj:	IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 59:1507-1519
ISSN:	1557-9662 0018-9456
DOI:	10.1109/tim.2009.2028210
Popis:	In this paper, a new multiphase flow metering device for real-time measurement of oil, gas, and water flow rates is presented. It is composed of several electrical and acoustic sensors whose signals are digitalized and processed by a multilayer neural network. This latest uses the physical models of multiphase fluids to reduce the complexity of the parameter space while improving its accuracy. Furthermore, to overcome the uncertainties of the electrical sensors in the range of 40%-60% and above 90% water-cut (i.e., ranges where most of the multiphase flow meter fail), two rings of high- and low-frequency ultrasonic sensors are used for low and high gas fractions, respectively. The results of experiments that have been conducted in an in-house laboratory-scale multiphase flow loop show that real-time classification for up to 90% gas fraction can be achieved with less than 10% relative error.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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