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7311001 |
Multiphase flow measurement apparatus and method
An apparatus is utilized for obtaining flow measurements from an individual oil and gas well. The apparatus utilizes pipe segments rather than vessels to separate the fluid components into a gas...
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7299683 |
Metal particle sensor system
A metal particle sensor system for detecting metal particles in an oil line. The metal particle sensor system may include a metal particle sensor positioned about the line, an orifice positioned...
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7293471 |
Flow meter for measuring fluid mixtures
The present invention is directed to a flow meter that obtains the individual flow rates of gas, liquid hydrocarbons, and water in a predominantly gas-containing flowing fluid mixture. The flow...
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7284448 |
Device and method for passively measuring fluid and target chemical mass fluxes in natural and constructed non-porous fluid flow system
An improved method and apparatus for simultaneously monitoring the fluid flux and the target chemical mass fluxes in fluid flow systems is provided comprising the use of a body or shell that is...
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7181980 |
Subsea multiphase flow meter detector retrievable electronics
An apparatus and a method for its use allow selective installation and removal of a canister such as one containing interface electronics to a mating connector on a housing, such as one containing...
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7181952 |
Characterization of mist sprays using a phase-doppler particle analyzer and an iso-kinetic sampling probe
A method for quantifying droplet fluxes of a water mist spray uses different measuring apparatuses and compares the measurements of the two apparatuses with one another. One of the measuring...
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7152455 |
Rapid gas recovery in an incubator system
Methods and apparatus for rapid gas recovery in a controlled gas atmosphere enclosure, which are particularly suited for maintaining incubator gas concentration levels, include the formulation of...
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7117595 |
Method for manufacturing a conveying element of an axial type flow meter used for drink vendors
A device is described for measuring a fluid, to be used advantageously in mixing devices for ingredients of liquid drinks. The device comprises an impeller, a diffuser upstream from the impeller...
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7087177 |
Methods for determining flow rates of biological fluids
A separation method comprises introducing a first fluid comprising first and second components having different density into a centrifugal field and allowing an interface to form between at least...
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7054764 |
Flow monitoring using flow control device
A method for determining the flow rate of a fluid, having a liquid fraction and a gas fraction, having the steps of: measuring the pressure and temperature of the fluid at a flow control device...
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7016790 |
In-line hot-wire sensor for slurry monitoring
An in-line hot-wire sensor for monitoring the mixing and the flow rate of slurry is disclosed. The hot-wire sensor may include a number of resistors organized into a Wheatstone bridge, as well as a...
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7013715 |
Multiphase flow measurement system
A fully automated Coriolis-based well system which can deliver accurate volumetric flow rate measurements in three phase flow. Measurements are performed according to a process including using N...
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6963809 |
Gas meter
A gas meter for determining a gas mixture consumption is revealed which determines sensor signal values proportional to a flow rate, this gas meter being calibrated as an energy measuring unit. The...
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6959609 |
Inferential densometer and mass flowmeter
A system for measuring the density and mass flow rate of a fluid stream. The system generally comprises a volumetric flow device, a momentum device, and a data processing device. The present...
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6935189 |
Multiphase flow meter using multiple pressure differentials
A flowmeter, and a method of, measuring the flow of a multi-phase fluid is described. The flowmeter has a first pressure sensor located in a conduit for measuring a first pressure differential at a...
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6917891 |
Systems and methods for diagnosing and predicting fluid flow systems using sensors
A fluid flow system for continuously monitoring the flow of fluid including fluid flow conduit with an upstream side and a downstream side, sensors and fluid flow elements, with the method for...
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6865495 |
Flow metering
In order to reduce the influence of fluid velocity on a measurement of a concentration characteristic of a fluid, the magnitude of an r.m.s. signal V derived from a voltage induced in a sensor...
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6857323 |
Two phase flow sensor using tomography techniques
A method and system is presented for accurately measuring the two phase flow rate of a fluid mixture that includes two different phase components. Capacitance tomography measurements are made in...
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6842705 |
Gas flow rate measuring device and gas flow rate measuring method
A gas flow measuring device and gas flow measuring method are disclosed wherein specific gas component of measuring object gas or target gas composed of gas different from the specific gas...
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6827374 |
Junction member for a hydraulic circuit
A junction element for a hydraulic fluid circuit, comprising a body ( 1 ) which is provided with inner channels ( 2,3 ) leading in an outer direction through a plurality of connection elements (...
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6826964 |
Method for measuring properties of flowing fluids, and a metering device and a sensor used for performing this method
A method for measuring properties of a flowing fluid composition comprising at least two different components, while the fluid composition is flowing through a duct or channel, which flow meter...
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6823271 |
Multi-phase flow meter for crude oil
An apparatus, systems, and method for measuring an amount of oil in a flow of fluid at varying depths of the flow of fluid are provided. A support structure is configured to be submerged in a flow...
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6796188 |
Flow meter
A flow meter comprises an inflow chamber having a first fluid inlet, an outflow chamber housed in the inflow chamber and having a second fluid inlet, which is in fluid communication with the inflow...
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6769293 |
Detection of liquid in gas pipeline
An apparatus and related method for measuring the presence or degree of stratified flow in a two-phase flow is disclosed. A first speed of sound for the fluid flowing through the pipeline is...
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6755086 |
Flow meter for multi-phase mixtures
A flow meter for multiphase flows, includes a holdup measuring device having a Venturi located upstream thereof and separated therefrom by a distance that results in flow through the holdup...
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6745135 |
Majority component proportion determination of a fluid using a coriolis flowmeter
A system, method, and software are disclosed that determine a proportion of a majority component of a fluid that is flowing through a Coriolis flowmeter. Circuitry receives pickoff signals and a...
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6659087 |
Detection of EVAP purge hydrocarbon concentration
In a system and a method for purging a vapor storage canister having adsorbed fuel vapor (or hydrocarbon vapor) by drawing air through the storage canister the storage canister being coupled with...
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6658944 |
Simultaneous determination of multiphase flowrates and concentrations
The present invention relates to a method and a device for measuring volume flow rates of liquid phase components and gas and determination their volume concentrations in a multiphase mixture along...
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6657441 |
Method and apparatus for determining flow velocities
A method for determining flow velocities conducts an electromagnetic signal through a fluid flowing in a delivery line and additionally conducts the electromagnetic signal in a spatially delayed...
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6655221 |
Measuring multiphase flow in a pipe
The method and the measuring system in accordance with the invention utilizes a measurement of electrical fields to determine the electrical characteristics of phases in a multi-phase mixture...
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6622574 |
Oil field management system
Oil field management systems and methods for managing operation of one or more wells producing a high void fraction multiphase flow. The system includes a differential pressure flow meter which...
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6612187 |
Measuring a gas mass fraction
A method of measuring a gas mass fraction (X) in a mass of liquid and gas flowing in direction (A) along pipeline ( 2 ) which includes a venturi formed by throat ( 10 ), convergent portion ( 12 )...
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6612186 |
Mass fraction metering device
An energy metering device includes a volumetric flow meter or mass flow meter in combination with a gas analyzer that provides telemetry regarding the constituents of a natural gas flow stream. An...
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6561042 |
Multi-phase flows measurement apparatus and method
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for the real-time measurement of volumetric flow rates of the water/oil/gas fractions of a multiphase (water/oil/gas) flow in a pipe without...
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6561041 |
Production metering and well testing system
A system for measuring and monitoring multi-phase fluid production of a plurality of individual wells, each operating as part of a common production field. Upstream multi-phase flow measurements...
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6546809 |
Method for measuring the flow rates of the single phases in a multiphase fluid stream and relevant apparatus
A method for measuring the liquid and gas flow rates (Q L and Q G ) of a multiphase fluid stream which comprises: withdrawing a portion of the overall flow rate (Q) under isokinetic conditions,...
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6532826 |
Measuring device for the gas-liquid flow rate of multiphase fluids
The invention is a kind of measuring device for the gas-liquid flow rate of multiphase fluids. The device includes a means for generating static slug flow and a means for measuring the flow rate by...
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6502465 |
Determining gas and liquid flow rates in a multi-phase flow
A method and apparatus for determining gas and liquid flow rates in a multi-phase flow are provided. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a method of determining gas and...
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6471487 |
Fluid delivery system
The fluid delivery system comprises a Coriolis mass flowmeter, a pump, a recirculation valve, and/or a back-pressure valve. The fluid delivery system prevents the measurement of a multiphase fluid...
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6467358 |
Method of measuring flow rates of respective fluids constituting multiphase fluid and flow meter for multiphase flow utilizing same
A flow meter for a multiphase flow which comprises a cross-correlation flow meter ( 26 ) for measuring basic values to calculate component ratios of respective fluids constituting a multiphase...
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6434495 |
Two-phase heat-flow analyzing method and the apparatus thereof
A method of analyzing heat and mass transfer in gas-liquid two-phase flow in an object transfer system includes dividing the object heat transfer system into a plurality of nodes, calculating a...
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6422092 |
Multiple-phase flow meter
This invention is related to flow meter instrumentation. More particularly, the invention is related to obstruction flow meters which are used in series in a flow conduit to determine the volume...
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6412352 |
Method and apparatus for measuring the mass flow rate of a fluid
A non invasive method and apparatus is provided to measure the mass flow rate of a multi-phase fluid. An accelerometer is attached to a pipe carrying a multi-phase fluid. Flow related measurements...
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6412351 |
Method and measuring apparatus for determining the volumetric gas content
A method and apparatus for determining the volumetric gas content in a two-phase flow of a medium comprising a gas phase and a liquid phase which has an unknown flow shape are provided. Simple and...
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6405604 |
Method and apparatus for measuring oil effluent flow rates
The invention relates to a flow rate measurement method adapted to oil effluents made up of multiphase fluid mixtures comprising water, oil, and gas. The effluent is passed through a Venturi in...
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6401547 |
Device and method for measuring fluid and solute fluxes in flow systems
An improved method and apparatus for simultaneously monitoring the fluid flux, and the dissolved contaminants fluxes, in a flow field is provided comprising the use of a permeable unit containing...
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6386018 |
Ultrasonic 2-phase flow apparatus and stratified level detector
An apparatus and related method for measuring the degree of stratified flow in a two-phase flow is disclosed. Alternate embodiments include a single transducer level detector and a multiple...
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6382521 |
Spray powder-coating system
A spray powder-coating system comprising at least one flow throttle ( 8, 34 ) in a compressed-air line of an injector ( 2 ). An electronic control unit ( 50 ) non-linearly controls the throttle as...
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6382032 |
Apparatus and method for measuring flow of gas with entrained liquids
An apparatus and method for making and using two measurements to correct metered flow rate values when liquids are present in a multiphase flow stream. The apparatus includes a conduit ( 10 ), an...
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6345537 |
Devices for determining the flow characteristics of a multi-phase fluid
A capacitive device for measuring the dielectric constant of a two-phase fluid flowing along a pipe, this device comprising two electrodes and power supply system for applying an AC voltage across...
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