TITLE: Development of a void fraction meter for measurement of gas holdup at high temperature and pressures: Final report.

INST.  AUTHOR: Arjay Engineering Ltd., Ottawa (Ontario).

SPONSOR: Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology, Ottawa (Ontario).

LANGUAGE: English

PUB.  TYPE: Technical Report

PUB.  COUNTRY: Canada

SOURCE: Other [$TFCAN],  1993,  136p.

NTIS ORDER NO.: MIC-94-03088INW

ABSTRACT:

Program to further test and optimize the very preliminary design and construct of a capacitance type meter that promises to provide a relatively easy and more commercial way to measure gas holds at severe conditions. A prototype was also to be tested. Tasks involved installing and testing the multi-sensor probe in the 15 cm acrylic bubble column using the Varsol/air system, at a number of gas rates and two liquid rates; redesigning the probe based on the results from Task 1 and constructing a new and more unitized version; testing the new probe design in Varsol/air at several gas velocities and a minimum of two liquid velocities in 15 cm acrylic columns; testing with solids present using glass beads and an iron containing solid; and designing and constructing a probe for application at high pressures and high temperatures.

CONTRACT  NUMBER: CANMET-23440-9-9155/01-SQ