Tomography for multi-phase flow measurement in the oil industry

Flow Measurement and Instrumentation

Volumn 16, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 145-155

  Ismail, Idris ^a   Gamio, J C ^b   Bukhari, S F A ^a   Yang, W Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETRÓLEO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cross correlation; Electrical capacitance tomography; Multi phase flow meter; Oil separator

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; COSTS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PIPELINES; TOMOGRAPHY; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

COMPONENT CONCENTRATION; ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE TOMOGRAPHY (ECT); ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENTS; OIL SEPARATORS;

FLOW MEASUREMENT;

FLOW MEASUREMENT; MULTIPHASE FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 19544392838     PISSN: 09555986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2005.02.017     Document Type: Article

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