Wet gas metering using a revised venturi meter and soft-computing approximation techniques

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 947-956

  Xu, Lijun ^a   Zhou, Wanlu ^a   Li, Xiaomin ^a   Tang, Shaliang ^b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PATENT EXAMINATION COOPERATION CENTER OF THE PATENT OFFICE   (China)

Author keywords

Gas liquid two phase flow; neural network; support vector machine (SVM); Venturi meter; wet gas metering

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION TECHNIQUES; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURES; DYNAMIC FEATURES; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; GAS FLOWRATE; GAS/LIQUID TWO PHASE FLOW; LIQUID FLOW RATES; SIGNAL FEATURES; STATIC FEATURES; STATIC PRESSURE; TEST RIGS; THROAT SECTION; VENTURI METERS; WET GAS; WET GAS METERING;

FLOW OF GASES; FLOWING WELLS; GAS METERS; GASES; NEURAL NETWORKS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 79951675845     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2010.2045934     Document Type: Article

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