Abstract
The problems of how to measuring the volumetric fractions of oil-water-gas multiphase flow are still a problem remaining to be solved in oil industry. With the technological development of nuclear radioactive inspection, dual-energy gamma-ray techniques make it possible to investigate the concentration of the different components on the cross-section of oil-water-gas multiphase pipe-flow. The dual-energy Gamma-ray technique is based on the materials attenuation coefficients measurement. It is comprised of two radioactive isotopes of Am-241 and Cs-137 with emission energies of 59.5keV and 662keV. In order to measuring the material's attenuation dose rate, some nuclear instruments and data acquisition system were designed; a number of static and dynamic tests were carried out in the Multiphase Laboratory, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The oil-water-gas three phases of medium have been investigated to simulate different media volumetric fraction distributions on the experimental flow loop. The measurement results of attenuation intensities were obtained; the linear attenuation coefficients and the volumetric fractions were studied and measurement error was discussed in this paper as well.
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