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Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering)  2005, Vol. 6 Issue (12): 7-    DOI: 10.1631/jzus.2005.A1405
    
Volumetric fraction measurement in oil-water-gas multiphase flow with dual energy gamma-ray system
Li Dong-hui, Wu Ying-xiang, Li Zhi-biao, Zhong Xing-fu
Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
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Abstract  Volumetric fraction distribution measurement is a constituent part of process tomography system in oil-water-gas multiphase flow. With the technological development of nuclear radial inspection, dual-energy γ-ray techniques make it possible to investigate the concentration of the different components on the cross-section of oil-water-gas multiphase pipe-flow. The dual-energy gamma-ray technique is based on materials attenuation coefficients measurement comprised of two radioactive isotopes of 241Am and 241Cs which have emission energies at 59.5 keV and 662 keV in this project. Nuclear instruments and data acquisition system were designed to measure the material’s attenuation dose rate and a number of static tests were conducted at the Multiphase Laboratory, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Three phases of oil-water-gas media were investigated for their possible use to simulate different media volumetric fraction distributions in experimental vessels. Attenuation intensities were measured, and the arithmetic of linear attenuation coefficients and the equations of volumetric fractions were studied. Investigation of an unexpected measurement error from attenuation equations revealed that a modified arithmetic was involved and finally the system achieved acceptable accuracy in experimental research.

Key words： Volumetric fraction      Multiphase flow      Dual-energy γ-ray      Process tomography     
Received: 07 September 2005     
CLC:  TB126  
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Li Dong-hui, Wu Ying-xiang, Li Zhi-biao, Zhong Xing-fu. Volumetric fraction measurement in oil-water-gas multiphase flow with dual energy gamma-ray system. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering), 2005, 6(12): 7-.

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