Coriolis Mass Flow Metering for Wet Gas

Lansangan, Robbie; Skinner, Jacob; Reese, Michael; Toro, Arnold Del; Tombs, Michael; Duta, Mihaela; Zhou, Feibiao; Henry, Manus

doi:10.1177/002029400804100703

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“…Coriolis devices can meet these requirements if their internal parameters are well-developed in the wet gas conditions. Firstly, Lansangan et al [3], tried to measure the wetness from the Coriolis data. They presented two approaches for Coriolis mass flow metering in wet gas conditions.…”

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Response of A Coriolis Gas Flow Meter to Steady and Transient Wet Gas Flow Conditions

Salehi,

Lao,

Simms

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the 9th World Congress on Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer

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Coriolis devices are continuously evolving to meet the demands of different conditions, such as wet gas flow. However, their application in wet gas flow has not yet been thoroughly explored. The impact of steady flow disturbances on Coriolis flow meters is well-documented, and empirical compensation or correction methods can be implemented accordingly. However, there has been inadequate investigation into the response of Coriolis meters under transient flow conditions and their comparison with steady flow in a wet gas. In this study, a Coriolis device was horizontally installed in a 50 mm pipe diameter. The experimental fluids consisted of air and water, with Lockhart-Martinelli (XLM) values ranging from 0.02 to 0.40. Steady and transient flow conditions at different gas and liquid flow rates were studied. The findings demonstrate the capability of standard deviation (STD) in distinguishing transient flow from steady one. Additionally, a strong correlation was observed between XLM and gas Over-Reading (OR) across various gas flow rates and XLM values. This correlation is particularly evident for XLM < 0.1. At extremely low liquid loading (XLM < 0.05), the average percentage error remains below 7 % even without the utilization of any correction models. Furthermore, the impact of different sensor installations, which had been largely overlooked in previous studies, was investigated.

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confidence: 99%

Response of A Coriolis Gas Flow Meter to Steady and Transient Wet Gas Flow Conditions

Salehi,

Lao,

Simms

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the 9th World Congress on Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer

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“…As suggested by Mehdizadeh et al [6], the future application trend for type I meters is to utilize additional signals from the meter, such as the pressure recovery information from DP meters used in [15] and the density signal from a Coriolis meter used in [16], in order to estimate liquid flow rate and, therefore, enhance the measurement certainty of gas flow. Taking advantage of the signal amplitude decreasing with liquid flow, Li et al [10] proposed a wet gas measurement model by modeling the meter over-reading and the output amplitude of a vortex meter; however, the method fails at high liquid fraction due to the asymptotic features of the signal amplitude, which limits its application scope to some extent.…”

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Wet gas flow metering by combining a vortex flowmeter with disturbance wave frequency

Li,

Ding,

Sun

et al. 2023

Meas. Sci. Technol.

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Based on a conductance-vortex meter dual-modality system, a novel wet gas flow measurement method is proposed, which combines a vortex meter with disturbance wave frequency. A negative relationship between the vortex signal quality and the disturbance wave frequency is found, on which basis a new segmented fast Fourier transform–continuous wavelet transform vortex frequency extraction method is proposed. Uniform exponential equations are derived for meter over-reading, taking into account the liquid-phase Reynolds and gas-phase Weber numbers, the disturbance wave Strouhal number, density ratio, and the liquid-phase Reynolds number. Finally, a Newton–Armijo-based wet gas metering model is developed by combining these two correlation equations. The percentage errors (PEs) of the gas flow in wet gas are within ±1.0% error bands with uncertainty of 0.56%. The full-scale PEs of liquid flow are within ±10% error bands with uncertainty of 4.71%. The disturbance wave frequency is used to correct the meter over-reading. As no liquid film thickness calibration is needed, the proposed method has low requirements on the conductivity of the medium and hence the application scope of media could be expanded.

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“…Other flow meters, including the Coriolis flow meter, vortex flow meter, and ultrasonic flow meter, have also been used in wet-gas metering. Lansangan et al used a Coriolis meter to provide accurate measurements of the Lockhart-Martinelli parameter which was then used to compensate the gas flow readings of a differential pressure meter [11]. Xu et al studied the mechanism of the two-path ultrasonic flow meter, investigating its propagation characteristics during wet-gas metering.…”

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Numerical Investigation of Gas–Liquid Two-Phase Flow in a Swirl Meter

Chen

Lin

2021

MAPAN

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Two-phase flow measurement is a key issue in the natural gas industry. Among the many different flow meters available, the swirl meter stands out for its reliability, ease of maintenance, large measurement range, and strong output signal. In this study, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations were conducted, using RNG k-e turbulence and Eulerian multiphase models, to investigate the gas-liquid two-phase flow characteristics in swirl meters. The CFD simulation results were then validated against the tested precession frequency of our experiment, and a satisfactory match was found between the outcomes. A detailed analysis was then conducted to generate profiles for velocity, pressure, etc. Based on examinations of the flow field distributions, it was found that gas flow inside swirl meters is sensitive to the presence of the liquid phase; the influence increased with the volume fraction of the liquid present. Further investigation indicated that the vortex precession was attenuated in the presence of the liquid phase. This led to the variation of the entire field; the pressure fluctuations at the end of the throat, in particular, resulted in metering errors of the gas flows.

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Coriolis Mass Flow Metering for Wet Gas

Cited by 6 publications

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Response of A Coriolis Gas Flow Meter to Steady and Transient Wet Gas Flow Conditions

Response of A Coriolis Gas Flow Meter to Steady and Transient Wet Gas Flow Conditions

Wet gas flow metering by combining a vortex flowmeter with disturbance wave frequency

Numerical Investigation of Gas–Liquid Two-Phase Flow in a Swirl Meter

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