Ultrasonic in-situ water-cut measurement using ultrasonic oil-water separation for affecting sound speed calibration
Abstract
An apparatus and method for the separation of an oil-water mixture into its components are described. An acoustic radiation force moves oil droplets to the nodes of an acoustic standing wave generated in a vertical column containing the oil-water mixture. Once the droplets are sufficiently close together, attractive forces become dominant and the droplets may coalesce to form larger droplets, which have greater buoyancy, and separation of the mixture into a layer of oil and a layer of water occurs, not possible by simple gravitational separation. Acoustically-driven oil-water separation may be used for water-cut measurements in oil production wells, since separation of the oil from the water permits accurate sound speed measurements to be made for both the oil and the water, thereby allowing frequent in situ calibrations of the apparatus to determine whether sound speed measurements on the mixture are accurate in the event that one or both of the mixture constituents is changing.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1771476
- Patent Number(s):
- 10794865
- Application Number:
- 15/563,603
- Assignee:
- Triad National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, NM)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01F - MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL
G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 04/01/2016
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 42 ENGINEERING; 02 PETROLEUM
Citation Formats
Sinha, Dipen N., and Pantea, Cristian. Ultrasonic in-situ water-cut measurement using ultrasonic oil-water separation for affecting sound speed calibration. United States: N. p., 2020.
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Sinha, Dipen N., & Pantea, Cristian. Ultrasonic in-situ water-cut measurement using ultrasonic oil-water separation for affecting sound speed calibration. United States.
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@article{osti_1771476,
title = {Ultrasonic in-situ water-cut measurement using ultrasonic oil-water separation for affecting sound speed calibration},
author = {Sinha, Dipen N. and Pantea, Cristian},
abstractNote = {An apparatus and method for the separation of an oil-water mixture into its components are described. An acoustic radiation force moves oil droplets to the nodes of an acoustic standing wave generated in a vertical column containing the oil-water mixture. Once the droplets are sufficiently close together, attractive forces become dominant and the droplets may coalesce to form larger droplets, which have greater buoyancy, and separation of the mixture into a layer of oil and a layer of water occurs, not possible by simple gravitational separation. Acoustically-driven oil-water separation may be used for water-cut measurements in oil production wells, since separation of the oil from the water permits accurate sound speed measurements to be made for both the oil and the water, thereby allowing frequent in situ calibrations of the apparatus to determine whether sound speed measurements on the mixture are accurate in the event that one or both of the mixture constituents is changing.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
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