Title
The Development and Test of a Sensor for Measurement of the Working Level of Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow in a Coalbed Methane Wellbore Annulus.
Abstract
Coalbed methane (CBM) is one kind of clean-burning gas and has been valued as a new form of energy that will be used widely in the near future. When producing CBM, the working level within a CBM wellbore annulus needs to be monitored to dynamically adjust the gas drainage and extraction processes. However, the existing method of measuring the working level does not meet the needs of accurate adjustment, so we designed a new sensor for this purpose. The principle of our sensor is a liquid pressure formula, i.e., the sensor monitors the two-phase flow patterns and obtains the mean density of the two-phase flow according to the pattern recognition result in the first step, and then combines the pressure data of the working level to calculate the working level using the liquid pressure formula. The sensor was tested in both the lab and on site, and the tests showed that the sensor's error was +/- 8% and that the sensor could function well in practical conditions and remain stable in the long term.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/s18020579
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
working level,wellbore annulus,two-phase flow,coalbed methane
Wellbore,Petroleum engineering,Flow (psychology),Annulus (oil well),Electronic engineering,Coalbed methane,Engineering,Two-phase flow
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
2.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chuan Wu101.01
Huafeng Ding214.11
Lei Han34511.52