Abstract
In this article, work done by several researchers with respect to predictive models, three phase flow regimes and methods of identifying flow regimes were reviewed. Additionally, effects of water c...
Highlights
Introduction to three phase flowTaitel, Barnea, and Brill (1995) noted that three phase flow stability research is rare, which is astonishing since it is so vital in the oil and gas industry
In this review paper, work performed by various researchers pertaining to multiphase flow through various pipeline inclinations had been reviewed
The predictive models reviewed were devised by researchers to predict liquid phase heights and pressure drop
Summary
10.1. Neogi, Lee, and Jepson (1994) Neogi et al (1994) derived the following two Equations (1) and (2) below to find predicted oil and water thickness values and compare them to the experimentally obtained ones. Aswad, Hamad-Allah, and Alzubaidi (2006) Aswad et al (2006) experimentally investigated liquid and water thickness as well as pressure drop for air-kerosene-water flowing in a 0.051 m inner diameter pipe that was 4 m in length They developed models to predict these thicknesses and pressure drop. They developed the following three Equations (5)–(7) that can be used to anticipate liquid and water height and pressure drop for the three phase stratified flow They found that their models were accurate since the model predictions gave good agreement with their experimental results. They looked at different ways to model multiphase flow in a wellbore by devising the mathematical model, substituting values into the models and simulating them They expressed mass conservation for both multi-fluid and drift-flux methods as Equations (12) and (13) below:.
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