Assessment of the application of acoustic emission technology for monitoring the presence of sand under multiphase flow condition

Journal Article · Fri Apr 11 00:00:00 EDT 2014 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4872117· OSTI ID:22271102

El-Alej, M., E-mail: [e-mail]; Mba, D., E-mail: [e-mail]; Yeung, H., E-mail: [e-mail] ^[1]

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1. School of Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 OAL (United Kingdom)

The monitoring of multiphase flow is an established process that has spanned several decades. This paper demonstrates the use of acoustic emission (AE) technology to investigate sand transport characteristic in three-phase (air-water-sand) flow in a horizontal pipe where the superficial gas velocity (VSG) had a range of between 0.2 ms{sup −1} to 2.0 ms{sup −1} and superficial liquid velocity (VSL) had a range of between 0.2 ms{sup −1} to 1.0 ms{sup −1}. The experimental findings clearly show a correlation exists between AE energy levels, sand concentration, superficial gas velocity (VSG) and superficial liquid velocity (VSL)

• OSTI ID: 22271102
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1592, Issue 1; Conference: 8. international symposium on measurement techniques for multiphase flows, Guangzhou (China), 13-15 Dec 2013; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
ACOUSTIC MONITORING
AIR
CONCENTRATION RATIO
CORRELATIONS
LIQUIDS
MULTIPHASE FLOW
SAND
VELOCITY
WATER