Three-phase flow measurement in the offshore oil industry is there a place for process tomography?

1st World Congress on Industrial Process Tomography

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 228-235

  Thorn, Richard ^a   Johansen, Geir Anton ^b   Hammer, Erling A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Flow measurement; Multiphase flow; Process instrumentation

Indexed keywords

FLOWMETERS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OIL SHALE; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMMERCIAL INSTRUMENTS; OFF-SHORE OIL INDUSTRY; OFFSHORE ENVIRONMENTS; OIL INDUSTRIES; PROCESS INSTRUMENTATION; PROCESS TOMOGRAPHY; THREE-PHASE FLOW; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING;

FLOW MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84910003234     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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