WO2002046705A2 - Method and apparatus for determining component flow rates for a multiphase flow - Google Patents
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- the present invention concerns techniques for the measurement of the flow rate of each component of a multiphase fluid. More particularly, the present invention concerns techniques based on measurements at different locations along a conduit for detern ⁇ iing the flow rates of each component of a multiphase fluid within the conduit.
- the approach of using a single sound speed measurement and a mixture flow rate measurement used in determining the component velocities in the case of a binary mixture cannot be extended to solve the problem of finding the component velocities of a fluid with more than two components. Additional information is required beyond what is provided by a measurement of the speed of sound in the mixture and a measurement of the flow rate of the mixture. To provide the required additional information, the prior art teaches multiphase flow meters that typically rely on several so called orthogonal measurement systems (said to be a orthogonal because each measurement system provides information that is at least partially independent of the information provided by the other measurement systems). Multiphase flow meters according to such an orthogonal system approach include meters based on multiple-energy nuclear sources, ultraviolet measurements, capacitance measurements, venturi effect measurements, and infrared measurements.
- An alternative approach to determining the component flow velocities of a multiphase fluid in a conduit is to determine the additional required information from multiple point measurements, i.e. from measurements of the same information at different places along the conduit. For example, the speed of sound in the fluid, the flow rate of the fluid, and the pressure and temperature of the fluid would be made at two or more locations along the conduit.
- a multiphase flow model is used to relate the values of the parameters that are measured at one location to those measured at another location. These relationships can provide the additional constraints required to solve for additional parameters.
- the equations are nonlinear in several variables. Many methods can be employed to "solve" for the flow parameters of interest.
- One class of methods defines an error function based on the -calculated values of the parameters compared to the measured values of the parameters.
- the flow-related parameters sought i.e. the component velocities or component phase fractions
- the flow parameters that result in minimizing the value of error function are assumed to be correct.
- Idun One company, previously Loke of Norway (now owned by FMC OS), is considered by many to have pioneered the general approach based on multiple point measurements for production allocation measurements in oil and gas production facilities.
- One implementation by Loke of the general approach is their software called Idun, which uses conventional pressure and temperature measurements along with a choke position measurement and knowledge of the fluid property characteristics to estimate the component flow rates (or phase fractions).
- the overall accuracy and robustness of the Idun approach is directly influenced by the type and quality of sensors available.
- Another approach to determining component flow rates in a multiphase fluid based on making measurements at multiple locations along a conduit carrying the multiphase fluid is that based on a gradio-venruri system, which includes a venturi meter and employs a remote pressure sensor located several hundred feet above the venturi.
- the pressure difference between the pressure at the venturi and that at the remote transducer can be related to the flow rate and composition through a multiphase flow model, and can be used in conjunction with the pressure difference due to the flow thorough the venturi to estimate the component flow rates.
- Such an approach has several drawbacks. It requires a venturi, which is intrusive, and it has an accuracy limited in two-phase flow to ⁇ 10% of the total flow. Moreover, the accuracy degrades substantially in the presence of any significant entrained gas.
- What is needed is a system of measuring the component velocities and phase fractions of a fluid that includes at least three components, and that is nonintrusive, sufficiently accurate, and that does not provide spurious solutions because of insufficient information.
- the present invention provides an apparatus and corresponding method for determining component flow rates of a multiphase fluid in a conduit, the fluid consisting of at least three known components, the method including the steps of: measuring at each of two different positions along the conduit at least four mixture quantities; providing a speed of sound in each of the components at the measured pressures and temperatures; providing a trial value for each of either the component flow rates or the phase fractions; using a predetermined model to calculate values for the measured mixture quantities based on the trial values for each of either the component flow rates or the phase fractions; using a predetermined error function to determine an error value; and using a predetermined optimizing algorithm to determine whether the calculated values are acceptable, and, if they are not, to provide a new trial value for each of either the component flow rates or the phase fractions.
- the error function is the sum of the squares of the difference between the measured and calculated values at each point.
- the four mixture quantities are the sound speed, the flow velocity of the multiphase fluid, the pressure and the temperature.
- Figure 1 is a schematic/ block diagram of a system for measuring component flow velocities for a multiphase fluid in a conduit, according to the present invention
- Figure 2 is a set of plots showing the results of a simulation of use of the present invention in case of no free gas being present at an upstream position on a conduit;
- Figure 3 is a set of plots showing the results of a simulation of use of the present invention in case of 20% (a phase fraction) free gas being present at an upstream position on a conduit;
- Figure 4 is a set of plots showing the results of a simulation of use of the present invention in case of 40% free gas being present at an upstream position on a conduit.
- the present invention for determining component flow rates (or, equivalently, phase fractions) for a multiphase fluid in a conduit is based on making measurements at different points along the conduit, as indicated in Figure 1.
- the term flow rate is used here in reference to a point along a conduit to mean mass per unit time flowing past the point along the conduit.
- the flow rate at a point is related to the average flow velocity at the point by the cross sectional area of the conduit at the point.
- phase fraction of a component of a multiphase fluid in a conduit is used here to indicate the fraction of the total mass of a sample of the fluid (at the point along the conduit) that is due to the presence of the component.
- Knowing the flow rate of each component is equivalent to knowing the phase fractions and the mixture flow rate.
- the flow rate for a component, at a point along a conduit is simply the product of the component flow velocity, the phase fraction for the component, and the total mass per unit length at the point along the conduit.
- values of the measured quantities are provided to a multiphase flow modeler 15, which also receives _as input the speed of sound in each of the individual components.
- Such component speed of sound values are determined based on pressure and temperature measurements at positions A and B and on an assumed PNT model.
- the multiphase flow modeler 15 then relates the measurements at position B to the measurements at position A, according to the methodology described below, which involves using successive trial values of the component flow rates (or the phase fractions) and an error function that compares the measured mixture quantities with calculated mixture quantities based on the trial values, and iterating until the value of the error function is acceptably small.
- the system includes an error function evaluator 16 that computes, for each new trial value of the component quantities (component flow rates or phase fractions), each new corresponding value of the error function.
- An optimizer 17 determines whether the calculated values are close enough to the measured values based on a predetermined tolerance, and if not, determines new trial values for the component quantities.
- the component rates (or the phase fractions) that minimize the error are ultimately provided by the optimizer 17 as the output of the system.
- the component densities p ⁇ , phase fractions ⁇ . , and component sound speeds c ( . are related to the mixture sound speed c mix and mixture density p mix by the equations,
- the propagation velocity of sound, or any other compressional wave is influenced by the structural properties of the conduit.
- the measured mixture sound speed c meas is related to the infinite domain sound speed c mix and to the structural properties of the tube via the relation,
- index a refers to either position A or position B
- index i refers to the different components of the fluid
- the invention will now be described in an embodiment that is particularly advantageous for determining the component flow rates (or, equivalently, the phase fractions) for a production fluid being pumped from a formation containing oil, gas, and water. It should however be understood that the invention has more general applicability; as will be clear, nothing about the invention restricts it to fluids of oil, gas, and water.
- equation (5) In the particular case of a three-phase (three-component) fluid consisting of gas, oil, and water, equation (5) becomes,
- the invention imposes, as one condition, mass flow continuity of the individual phases, and uses a model for the evolution of gas from the oil.
- the present invention uses a model that calculates the amount of gas at position B based on, among other factors, the amount of gas and oil at position A.
- the model tracks the multiphase flow as a four-component mixture, a mixture consisting of water, oil, gas present at position A, and gas evolved from the oil between position A and position B.
- the third equation derives from the conservation of the gas phase.
- the present invention models two mechanisms to account for the change in volumetric flow rate of the gas. First, it is assumed that the gas present at position A under goes an expansion characterized by its compressibility factor. Secondly, it is assumed that amount of gas that evolves from the fluid as it moves from position A to position B is proportional to the amount of oil present at position A. Expressing these relations in terms of volumetric flow rates at standard temperature and pressure (indicated by the subscript R)_ yields the following relations,
- ⁇ is the so-called gas evolution constant, which is defined as the amount of gas
- the gas evolution constant ⁇ can be determined from a standard differential vaporization test in which the amount of dissolved gas (in standard cubic feet) per barrel of residual oil is reported as a function of pressure (see e.g. PVT and Phase Behavior of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids, by Ali Danesh, Elsevier, 1998).
- the gas compressibility factor Z is also reported in typical PVT field analyses of black oils.
- the first term in equation (11) represents the amount of gas present at position A
- the second term represents the amount of gas evolved from the oil as the fluid moves from position A to position B.
- the invention therefore constructs a system of seven equations.
- the sound speed mixing laws, given by equation (6) provide two equations.
- the phase conservation conditions, given by equations (9-11), provide three equations. These seven independent equations are in terms of six unknowns (the component flow rates or the phase fractions at both positions A and B) and so provide more than enough information to uniquely determine the six unknowns. Since the system of equations is over determined, instead of attempting to solve the system of equations (which may include inconsistent conditions), the invention seeks a solution that niinimizes an error function.
- the invention uses as an error function a simple sum of the squares of the differences between the calculated values of a quantity measured at the two positions A and B and the measured values, i.e. using F ⁇ to represent a quantity that is measured at position A and position B, where the index i ranges over N such quantities, the invention uses as the error function,
- the application of this general approach can take many forms, i.e. many different algorithms or procedures may be used to minimize the error function E ; how, specifically, the error function is n ⁇ nimized is not the subject of the present invention.
- the accuracy of the general approach used in the present invention depends on many factors, including: the fidelity of the parametric model; the quality, quantity and types of measurements; the accuracy of the calibration of the model input parameters; the accuracy of the well parameters, including for example the radius R , thickness t and Young's modulus E of the conduit; and the accuracy of the fluid parameters, including for example the component speeds of sound.
- the inventors conducted several Monte Carlo simulations to evaluate the multiphase flow measurement approach developed above.
- the well parameters were selected to be representative of a producing black oil.
- the parameters used in the simulation are listed below.
- Figures 2-4 present the results of the Monte Carlo simulations, in which the input parameters and measured parameters are varied in a random, but bounded, manner.
- the three figures illustrate the ability of the invention, even using the simplifying assumptions noted above, to measure the multiphase flow parameters as a function of oil and water cut for three levels of free gas present at position A (namely 0% for Figure 2, 20% for Figure 3, and 40% for Figure 4) in the presence of the uncertainty for each of the parameters indicated in Table 3 below.
- the pressure was not directly varied in the simulations; the effect of any uncertainty in pressure is accounted for in the variations of the other model parameters.
- the simulations indicate that the invention provides reasonable estimates of oil, gas, and water phase fractions, within ⁇ 10% of reference values for a reasonable level of uncertainty in both measured and input parameters for free gas volume fractions ranging from 0% at position A to 40% at position A.
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