New slug control strategies, tuning rules and experimental results

Journal of Process Control

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 547-557

  Godhavn, John Morten ^a   Fard, Mehrdad P ^a   Fuchs, Per H ^a  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Multiphase flow; Slug control

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; HYDRODYNAMICS; INSTALLATION; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OIL WELLS; PIPELINES; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PROBABILITY; STABILIZATION;

FLOW LINE PRESSURE; OLGA; PID CONTROLLERS; SLUG CONTROL;

MULTIPHASE FLOW;

EID: 13444273020     PISSN: 09591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jprocont.2004.10.003     Document Type: Article

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