Wet Gas Metering is becoming increasingly important to the Oil and Gas Industry. In this research a wet gas flow is defined as a liquid / gas two-phase flow that has a gas mass content greater then 50 %. The Venturi Meter is a favoured wet gas meter in the Oil and Gas Industry. However, industry's understanding of wet gas flow phenomena in such a meter is limited and is therefore forced to accept large metering errors when existing correlations are used to take account of the liquid presence. Furthermore, these correlations all require an input value for the liquid flowrate. This information is not readily available to natural gas production engineers. This research extensively discusses the current wet gas metering situation and then uses new independent data from the NEL Wet Gas Loop to compare the performance of existing correlations when used with a Venturi Meter. This new data is examined to determine parameters that effect the meter reading and then new correlations are presented. One new correlation offered uses the additional information from a downstream pressure tapping in conjunction with the traditional upstream pressure reading and the Venturi pressure differential to predict the gas flowrate without knowledge of the liquid flowrate.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:366846 |
| Date | January 2001 |
| Creators | Steven, Richard |
| Publisher | University of Strathclyde |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21419 |
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