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Title
A high performance gas–liquid two-phase flow meter based on gamma-ray attenuation and scattering
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Abstract
The ability to precisely estimate the void fraction of multiphase flow in a pipe is very important in the petroleum industry. In this paper, an approach based on our previous works is proposed for predicting the void fraction independent of flow regime and liquid phase density changes in gas–liquid two-phase flows. Implemented technique is a combination of dual modality densitometry and multi-beam gamma-ray attenuation techniques. The detection system is comprised of a single energy fan beam, two transmission detectors, and one scattering detector. In this work, artificial neural network (ANN) was also implemented to predict the void fraction percentage independent of the flow regime and liquid phase density changes. Registered counts in three detectors and void fraction percentage were utilized as the inputs and output of ANN, respectively. By applying the proposed methodology, the void fraction was estimated with a mean relative error of less than just 1.2480%.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Nuclear science and techniques
Publication
2017
DOI
10.1007/S41365-017-0310-Z
Volume/pages
28 :11 (2017) , 9 p.
Article Reference
169
ISI
000417222800016
Medium
E-only publicatie
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Creation 31.10.2020
Last edited 30.08.2024
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