Recreating Riser Slugging Flow Based on an Economic Lab-sized Setup

Lasse Hansen, Simon Pedersen, Zhenyu Yang, Jakob Biltoft

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Abstract

As a kind of periodic phenomenon, the slugging flow in the offshore oil & gas production addresses a lot of attentions, due to its limitation of production rate, periodic overload processing facilities, and even direct cause of emergent shutdown. This work studies the emulation of the riser slugging flow in the offshore oil & gas production, by constructing an economical lab-sized setup in the university campus. Firstly, the construction and used components for the lab setup are illustrated; then, the constructed setup is validated by checking the consistency with some existing typical riser slug model, besides extensive experimental tests. The theoretical analysis and experimental results show that this simple setup can recreate the key features of slugging flow phenomenon reasonably precise, and it serves as a good platform for further slug control study.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication5th IFAC International Workshop on Periodic Control Systems, 2013
Number of pages6
Volume5
PublisherElsevier
Publication date5 Jul 2013
Pages47-52
ISBN (Print)978-3-902823-38-0
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 Jul 2013
Event5th IFAC International Workshop on Periodic Control Systems - Caen, France
Duration: 3 Jul 20135 Jul 2013

Conference

Conference5th IFAC International Workshop on Periodic Control Systems
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityCaen
Period03/07/201305/07/2013
SeriesIFAC-PapersOnLine
Number1
Volume5
ISSN1474-6670

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