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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Stabilizing Slug Control Using Subsea Choke Valve

Lieungh, Mats January 2012 (has links)
This thesis study the possibility of riser slugging control in oshore oil productionusing a subsea choke valve. A 5-state simplied model of a well-pipelinerisersystem is introduced and tted to a reference model in the ow simulatorOLGA. The models have two inputs, a subsea valve at the wellhead and a topsidevalve at the top of the riser. The eect the valves have on the behavior ofthe simplied model are tted to simulation data from the OLGA-model usingbifurcation diagrams.An input-output controllability analysis of the simplied model show thatanti-slug control using a subsea valve at the wellhead is more dicult than theconventional solution, which is to use the topside choke valve. This is conrmedby simulations on the simplied model using Hinfinity-controllers.Stabilizing control of the OLGA-model using the subsea valve was unsuccessful,despite testing dierent measurement combinations and control structures.A more promising solution for controlling riser slugging using a subsea valve istested in OLGA, where a subsea valve located near the base of the riser can keepthe system stable at riser slugging conditions. This is also seen in an experimenton a small scale ow lab.

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