Gas-water two-phase flow pattern recognition based on ERT and ultrasound Doppler

Ying Shen, Chao Tan, Feng Dong, Keith Smith, Javier Escudero

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Abstract

Two phase flow is widely encountered and of high importance in the manufacturing process and related scientific research. The two-phase flow process is complex, and the flow patterns are jointly determined by the phase fraction and the flow rate. The traditional way of studying the flow patterns uses a single sensor, generally sensing one point, to discover and identify the flow patterns. However, these methods lack a comprehensive description from both the phase distribution and flow velocity. Therefore, it is essential to fuse different detection mechanism sensors to investigate the flow patterns in a more comprehensive way. In this work, an electrical resistance tomography (ERT) sensor measures phase fraction and a continuous wave ultrasound Doppler (CWUD) sensor measures velocity of two-phase flow. For the measurement, data of ERT is treated as a multivariate time-series and a method of graph signal processing named Modular Dirichlet Energy (MDE) is adopted to extract features. The results show that the combination of these two sensors can distinguish horizontal gas-water flow well and lays the foundation for the identification of oil-gas-water three-phase flow.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationI2MTC 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference
Subtitle of host publicationDiscovering New Horizons in Instrumentation and Measurement, Proceedings
Pages1-6
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538622223
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Jul 2018
Event2018 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, I2MTC 2018 - Houston, United States
Duration: 14 May 201817 May 2018

Publication series

NameI2MTC 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference: Discovering New Horizons in Instrumentation and Measurement, Proceedings

Conference

Conference2018 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, I2MTC 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHouston
Period14/05/1817/05/18

Keywords

  • continuous wave ultrasound Doppler
  • electrical resistance tomography
  • flow pattern identification
  • Modular Dirichlet Energy
  • ultrasonic variables measurement
  • time-frequency analysis
  • ultrasonic imaging
  • voltage measurement
  • doppler effect
  • flow measurement
  • flow sensors

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