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Measurement of gas content in two-phase flow with acoustic emission

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Engineering Asset Lifecycle Management

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The two-phase liquid/gas slug flow regime phenomenon can be encountered over a range of gas and liquid flow rates. Monitoring of slugs and measurement of their characteristics, such as the gas void fraction, are necessary to minimise the disruption of downstream process facilities. This paper presents experimental results correlating Acoustic Emission measurements with Gas Void Fraction (GVF) in a two-phase water / air flow regime. It is concluded that the measurements of Acoustic Emission offer a complimentary means of measuring the GVF non-intrusively.

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    A. Addali, S. Al-lababidi, H. Yeung & D. Mba

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  1. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  2. C.E.T.I/R.C. Athena, Athens, Greece

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Addali, A., Al-lababidi, S., Yeung, H., Mba, D. (2010). Measurement of gas content in two-phase flow with acoustic emission. In: Kiritsis, D., Emmanouilidis, C., Koronios, A., Mathew, J. (eds) Engineering Asset Lifecycle Management. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-320-6_109

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