ANUMET: A Novel Wet Gas Flowmeter

Falcone, G. , Hewitt, G.F., Lao, L. and Richardson, S.M. (2003) ANUMET: A Novel Wet Gas Flowmeter. In: SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Denver, Colorado, 5-8 Oct 2003, ISBN 9781555631529 (doi: 10.2118/84504-MS)

Abstract

Wet gas metering is rapidly establishing itself as a special problem area within the more general area of multiphase flow metering. In fact, while attempts are being made across the Oil and Gas Industry to define the boundaries between humid gas, gas-condensate and high GVF (gas volume fraction) multiphase systems, a few commercial wet gas meters are already available for specific field applications. A major interest of Imperial College has been the development of metering schemes for three-phase (oil-gas-water) flows in oil-field production systems. Imperial College has already developed a flow meter (MIXMETER)1, which performs satisfactorily in the range of gas volume fractions of 0 to 90%. Imperial College has therefore been recently developing a new concept (ANUMET), which shows some promise for measuring two-phase flows at much higher gas volume fractions. The technical description of the ANUMET wet gas meter is outlined in this paper. Preliminary experiments on this new metering concept have been carried out with air-water flows in a 32 mm diameter tube in the LOTUS (LongTUbeSystem) facility at Imperial College. Encouraging results have been obtained and they are presented here.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Additional Information: in Proceedings: pages 4001-4012.
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Falcone, Professor Gioia
• Authors: Falcone, G., Hewitt, G.F., Lao, L., and Richardson, S.M.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Systems Power and Energy
• ISBN: 9781555631529