Phase distribution measurements in liquid-liquid pipeline flows using an impedance probe
- Imperial College, London (United Kingdom). Dept. of Chemical Engineering
A high frequency impedance probe was used for volume fraction distribution measurements and flow pattern identification in oil-water flow. The signal processing technique was based on a method by van der Welle (1985) that attributes to the beginning of the signal rise or fall the contact of the interface with the probe tip. The experiments were performed in two 1 inch nominal bore horizontal test sections made from stainless steel and acrylic resin. Measurements were made for mixture velocities from 1.3 m/s to 1.7 m/s and input oil volume fractions from 25% to 85%. Under these conditions different complex flow patterns exist, whose discrimination with visual observation is difficult. The results revealed that the mixing of the liquid phases is much greater in the rougher steel pipe than in the acrylic pipe under the same conditions and also helped to clearly identify the three layer, the stratified mixed and the fully mixed flow patterns. Liquid-liquid flows appear in many industrial processes and in the petroleum industry in particular, where oil and water are often produced and transported together.
- OSTI ID:
- 442604
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-961105-; ISBN 0-7918-1521-8; TRN: IM9712%%29
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 1996 international mechanical engineering congress and exhibition, Atlanta, GA (United States), 17-22 Nov 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the ASME Heat Transfer Division. Volume 3: Experimental studies in multiphase flow; Multiphase flow in porous media; Experimental multiphase flows and numerical simulation of two-phase flows; Fundamental aspects of experimental methods; HTD-Volume 334; Cheung, F.B. [ed.] [Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)]; Yang, B.W. [ed.] [Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)]; Riznic, J.R. [ed.] [Atomic Energy Control Board, Ottawa, Ontario (Canada)]; Seyed-Yagoobi, J.; Hassan, Y.A.; Kihm, K.D. [eds.] [Texas A and M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)]; Kim, J.H. [ed.] [Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)]; Paolucci, S. [ed.] [Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States)]; Oosthuizen, P.H. [ed.] [Queen`s Univ., Kingston, Ontario (Canada)]; PB: 438 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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