CN101231183A - Method and device for measuring liquid-liquid diphasic flow using dominant phase arbiter - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a liquid to liquid two phase flow measuring method and a device thereof, which adopts a leading phase arbiter. The device of the invention comprises a measuring pipeline, a conductance sensor, a throttling element, a volume flowmeter, a difference pressure transducer, a temperature transducer, a conductance measuring and collecting circuit, a data collecting circuit and a computer, wherein, the conductance sensor is connected with the computer via the conductance measuring and collecting circuit, and each transducer and the volume flowmeter are connected with the computer via the data collecting circuit. Mixed density, total mass flow quantity, split phase flow quantity, etc. of the two-phase flow are obtained according to the bulk volume flow quantity obtained by the volume flowmeter, the difference pressure obtained by the throttling element and the temperature obtained by the temperature transducer, and a mixed flow implement does not need to mix fluid previously. Simultaneously, the leading phase arbiter which uses the conductance sensor as a main body is used for distinguishing the leading phase of the two-phase flow, and the two-phase flow quantity coefficients are selected for the throttling element according to the distinguished leading phase of the two-phase flow, thus, the measurement precision is improved. The invention has the advantages of simple structure, good reliability, low cost, wide application scope, and can be used for measuring the liquid to liquid two-phase flow in fields like oil, chemical industry, etc.

Description

Adopt the liquid-liquid diphasic flow measuring method and the device of dominant phase arbiter

Technical field

The invention belongs to field of measuring techniques, relate in particular to the liquid-liquid diphasic flow measuring method and the device that adopt dominant phase arbiter.

Background technology

Liquid-liquid diphasic flow extensively exists in industrial circles such as oil and chemical industry.Existing metering method has densitometer to obtain separate phase flow rate in conjunction with the method for single-phase flowmeter, but measuring accuracy is undesirable during actual the use, cost is high, vibrating tube densimeter commonly used is very responsive to presence states such as the temperature of medium, pressure, the variation of ambient condition directly influences the measurement of density and flow, and there is safety problem in gamma ray density meter, operating conditions is required high.Earlier liquid liquid two is separated, using single-phase flow score then Ji Liang not be the method for often using yet, but separation vessel is bulky and separation needs the regular hour, and the metering real-time is affected.The coriolis mass flowmeters of Chu Xianing also can be used for carrying out individual phase measurement in recent years, but had shortcomings such as cost costliness, service condition harshness, installation and maintenance inconvenience.In addition, with the mixed flow device two-phase flow is mixed earlier and become homogeneous flow, the method of utilizing the combination of single-phase flowmeter such as restriction flowmeter, volumeter etc. to measure again, measuring accuracy are still needed and are further improved, and the mixed flow device has also been introduced extra crushing.

The present invention adopts the combination of single-phase flow instrument and dominant phase arbiter to carry out the measurement of liquid-liquid diphasic flow, need not use mixed flow device convection cell to be pre-mixed, not only simplified system architecture but also reduced crushing, utilized liquid-liquid diphasic flow dominant phase arbiter to improve the two-phase flow measurement precision simultaneously based on conductivity sensor.

Summary of the invention

The purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of liquid-liquid diphasic flow measuring method and device that adopts dominant phase arbiter.

Comprise the steps:

1) utilizes conductivity sensor to obtain the conductance signal of liquid-liquid diphasic flow, utilize volumetric displacement meter to obtain the total volumetric flow rate Q of liquid-liquid diphasic flow _v, utilize differential pressure transmitter to obtain the differential pressure Δ p at restricting element place, utilize temperature transmitter to obtain the temperature T of liquid-liquid diphasic flow;

2) dominant phase arbiter is according to conductance signal, differentiate the leading phase of liquid-liquid diphasic flow in conjunction with the least square method supporting vector machine sorting technique, according to the leading two-phase flow coefficient of selecting restricting element mutually, if fluid 1 is taken phase as the leading factor, then its two-phase flow coefficient is chosen as the flow coefficient k of demarcating with monophasic fluid 1 ₁, if fluid 2 is taken phase as the leading factor, then the two-phase flow coefficient of restricting element is chosen as the flow coefficient k of demarcating with monophasic fluid 2 ₂, if liquid-liquid diphasic flow is in an interim state, then its two-phase flow coefficient is chosen as K ₁And K ₂Mean value;

3) calculate formula and flow signal Q based on the incompressible fluid volumetric flow rate of restricting element _v, differential pressure signal Δ p, temperature signal T obtain hybrid density, total mass flow rate and separate phase flow rate, the liquid-liquid diphasic flow hybrid density is $\mathrm{\&rho;}=\frac{{\mathrm{<figure-callout\; id="2"\; label="K"\; filenames="S2008100595505E00021.png,S2008100595505E00031.png"\; state="\{\{state\}\}">K</figure-callout>}}^2\mathrm{\&Delta;p}}{{{\mathrm{<figure-callout\; id="2"\; label="Q\; v"\; filenames="S2008100595505E00021.png,S2008100595505E00031.png"\; state="\{\{state\}\}">Q</figure-callout>}}_v}^2},$ Total mass flow rate is Q _m=ρ Q _v, the volume of fluid 1 contains rate and is $x_1=\frac{\mathrm{\&rho;}-{\mathrm{\&rho;}}_2}{{\mathrm{\&rho;}}_1-{\mathrm{\&rho;}}_2},$ The volume of fluid 2 contains rate $x_{}$ ${}_2=\frac{{\mathrm{\&rho;}}_1-\mathrm{\&rho;}}{{\mathrm{\&rho;}}_1-{\mathrm{\&rho;}}_2},$ The volumetric flow rate of fluid 1 is Q _V1=x ₁Q _v, the volumetric flow rate of fluid 2 is Q _V2=x ₂Q _v, the mass rate of fluid 1 is Q _M1=ρ ₁Q _V1, the mass rate of fluid 2 is Q _M2=ρ ₂Q _V2, wherein: ρ ₁, ρ ₂---be respectively fluid 1, the density of fluid 2 when temperature T, the coefficient of flow of K---restricting element.

The method of the leading phase of described differentiation liquid-liquid diphasic flow comprises the steps:

1) obtains the electric conductivity value of two-phase flow in the pipeline by conductance measurement and Acquisition Circuit;

2) the leading phase discrimination module of computing machine uses the sorter of being set up by least square method supporting vector machine, and according to conductance signal the flow state of liquid-liquid diphasic flow is divided into three classes: fluid 1 is taken phase as the leading factor, fluid 2 is taken phase, transition state as the leading factor.

Adopt the liquid-liquid diphasic flow measurement mechanism of dominant phase arbiter to have the metering pipeline, on the metering pipeline, conductivity sensor, restricting element, volumetric displacement meter, temperature transmitter are installed successively, conductivity sensor is connected with computing machine through conductance measurement and Acquisition Circuit, restricting element is connected with differential pressure transmitter, differential pressure transmitter, volumetric displacement meter, temperature transmitter are connected with computing machine through data acquisition circuit, and conductivity sensor, conductance measurement and Acquisition Circuit and computing machine constitute dominant phase arbiter.

The sensing pipeline section of described conductivity sensor adopts pmma material, two ends link to each other with tested pipeline by joint flange, n electrode is installed around the sensing pipeline section inwall equally spacedly, n 〉=6 wherein, electrode passes through the radioshielding line and links to each other with conductance measurement and Acquisition Circuit.

Restricting element is a Venturi tube, and volumetric flow rate is counted volumeter.

The present invention utilizes simple single-phase flowmeter to solve the liquid-liquid diphasic flow problems of measurement that always is difficult to fine solution on the engineering.Do not need to use the mixed flow device to carry out being pre-mixed of fluid, not only simplify system architecture but also reduced the crushing of measurement mechanism, and the differentiation that utilizes leading phase overcome adopt that single restricting element coefficient of flow causes than mistake, improved measuring accuracy, having does not simultaneously need liquid liquid two to be separated, to be with advantage such as temperature compensation, good reliability, cost be low, applied widely, can be used for the measurement of the liquid-liquid diphasic flow system in the numerous areas such as oil, chemical industry.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is the structured flowchart that adopts the liquid-liquid diphasic flow measurement mechanism of dominant phase arbiter;

Fig. 2 is the composition structured flowchart of dominant phase arbiter;

Fig. 3 (a) is the longitudinal sectional drawing (is example with 16 needle electrodes) of conductivity sensor;

Fig. 3 (b) is the transverse cross-sectional view (is example with 16 needle electrodes) of conductivity sensor;

Fig. 4 is the job step synoptic diagram of the leading phase discrimination module of computing machine in the dominant phase arbiter;

Fig. 5 is the job step synoptic diagram that adopts the liquid-liquid diphasic flow measuring method of dominant phase arbiter.

Embodiment

As shown in Figure 1, adopt the liquid-liquid diphasic flow measurement mechanism of dominant phase arbiter to have the metering pipeline, on the metering pipeline, conductivity sensor, restricting element, volumetric displacement meter, temperature transmitter are installed successively, conductivity sensor is connected with computing machine through conductance measurement and Acquisition Circuit, restricting element is connected with differential pressure transmitter, and differential pressure transmitter, volumetric displacement meter, temperature transmitter are connected with computing machine through data acquisition circuit.Conductivity sensor, conductance measurement and Acquisition Circuit and computing machine constitute dominant phase arbiter.Described restricting element is a Venturi tube, and volumetric flow rate is counted volumeter (comprising gear meter, rotz flowmeter, blade flowmeter etc.).

During measurement, liquid-liquid diphasic flow enters the metering pipeline, the conductivity sensor of flowing through, restricting element and volumetric displacement meter.Conductance measurement and Acquisition Circuit link to each other with conductivity sensor, measure a plurality of electric conductivity values of two-phase flow in the pipeline, and it is sent into computing machine.The supporting installation of differential pressure transmitter and restricting element, differential pressure signal change the standard electric signal into sends into computing machine through data acquisition circuit.Volumetric displacement meter obtains the total volumetric flow rate of liquid-liquid diphasic flow in the pipeline, and changes flow signal into the standard electric signal and send into computing machine through data acquisition circuit.Temperature transmitter is used for measuring the temperature T of two-phase flow, and changes temperature signal into the standard electric signal and send into computing machine through data acquisition circuit.Be provided with memory module in computing machine, the storage density of two-phase fluid under different temperatures and the coefficient of flow of restricting element (comprise the COEFFICIENT K of demarcating with monophasic fluid 1 ₁With the COEFFICIENT K of demarcating with monophasic fluid 2 ₂) etc. data, computing machine is handled in real time, carries out the differentiation of the leading phase of liquid-liquid diphasic flow, and obtains hybrid density, total mass flow rate and separate phase flow rate etc.

It is pointed out that with respect to other restricting elements such as orifice plate, nozzles, the pipeline crushing minimum that Venturi tube produced, so restricting element is selected Venturi tube for use.Why volumetric displacement meter selects volumeter for use, be because the measuring accuracy of volumeter is higher, and the variation of liquid-liquid diphasic flow flow pattern is very little to the influence of its precision.

No matter which kind of restricting element what this device adopted is, all can utilize the incompressible fluid volumetric flow rate to calculate formula:

$q_v=K\sqrt{\frac{\mathrm{\&Delta;p}}{\mathrm{\&rho;}}}---\left(1\right)$

Wherein: Δ p---the liquid-liquid diphasic flow differential pressure that restricting element produces of flowing through,

ρ---liquid-liquid diphasic flow hybrid density,

The coefficient of flow of K---restricting element.

Since the incompressibility and the continuity equation of liquid, the total volumetric flow rate Q that volumetric displacement meter records _vBe the volumetric flow rate q of the restricting element of flowing through _vSo, obtain:

$Q_v=K\sqrt{\frac{\mathrm{\&Delta;p}}{\mathrm{\&rho;}}}---\left(2\right)$

Formula (2) is carried out conversion, and the hybrid density that obtains liquid-liquid diphasic flow is:

$\mathrm{\&rho;}=\frac{{\mathrm{<figure-callout\; id="2"\; label="K"\; filenames="S2008100595505E00021.png,S2008100595505E00031.png"\; state="\{\{state\}\}">K</figure-callout>}}^2\mathrm{\&Delta;p}}{{Q_v}^2}---\left(3\right)$

More than various in, the flow coefficient k of restricting element is an important parameters, but because at present also fewer to the Discharge Coefficient Study of restricting element in the liquid-liquid diphasic flow, uses the single-phase flow coefficient of flow of restricting element in therefore measuring.And the flow coefficient k of demarcating with monophasic fluid 1 ₁With the flow coefficient k of demarcating with monophasic fluid 2 ₂Be different, this species diversity can be bigger under the less situation of flow.Therefore for overcome adopt that single coefficient of flow causes than mistake, improve the measuring accuracy of liquid-liquid diphasic flow, utilize dominant phase arbiter that the leading of liquid-liquid diphasic flow differentiated mutually, select the two-phase flow coefficient of suitable coefficient of flow as restricting element according to differentiating the result.(fluid 1 contains rate x if fluid 1 is taken phase as the leading factor ₁〉=60%), then its two-phase flow coefficient is chosen as the flow coefficient k of demarcating with single-phase fluid 1 ₁, (fluid 2 contains rate x if fluid 2 is taken phase as the leading factor ₂〉=60%), then the two-phase flow coefficient of restricting element is chosen as the flow coefficient k of demarcating with monophasic fluid 2 ₂, if liquid-liquid diphasic flow (40%＜x in an interim state ₁＜60%), then its two-phase flow coefficient is chosen as K ₁And K ₂Mean value, that is:

As shown in Figure 2, dominant phase arbiter has the leading phase discrimination module of conductivity sensor, conductance measurement and Acquisition Circuit, computing machine that is connected.Conductivity sensor as shown in Figure 3, has sensing pipeline section 1, sensing pipeline section 1 adopts pmma material, two ends link to each other with tested pipeline by joint flange 2, n electrode 3 (n 〉=6 are installed around the sensing pipeline section inwall equally spacedly, n=16 among the figure), electrode can be point-like, rectangle or other shapes (electrode is a needle-like among the figure), and electrode links to each other with conductance measurement and Acquisition Circuit by radioshielding line 4.Conductance measurement and Acquisition Circuit adopt the mode of " adjacent electrode that adjacent electrode injects exciting current, non-excitation detects voltage " to obtain the electric conductivity value of two-phase flow in the pipeline (n (n-3)/2 altogether), and it is sent into computing machine.

Descend electric conductivity value there are differences mutually because two-phase flow is different leading, dominant phase arbiter is dominated the differentiation of phase based on this difference, and method of discrimination comprises the steps:

1) conductance measurement and Acquisition Circuit are obtained the electric conductivity value of two-phase flow in the pipeline;

2) the leading phase discrimination module of computing machine uses the sorter of being set up by least square method supporting vector machine (LS-SVM), and according to conductance signal the flow state of liquid-liquid diphasic flow is divided into three classes: fluid 1 is taken phase as the leading factor, and (volume of fluid 1 contains rate x ₁〉=60%), fluid 2 is taken phase as the leading factor (volume of fluid 2 is contained rate x ₂〉=60%) transition state (40%＜x, ₁＜60%).

The foundation of sorter can be adopted the One-versus-Rest algorithm in the support vector machine multicategory classification problem, setting up a plurality of two class sorters makes a distinction each class and other two classes respectively, therefore need three sub-classifiers altogether, the expression formula of each sub-classifier is as follows:

$y\left(r\right)=\mathrm{sign}(\underset{i=1}{\overset{N}{\mathrm{\&Sigma;}}}{\mathrm{\&alpha;}}_i{y}_i\mathrm{\&psi;}(r,r_i)+b)---\left(5\right)$

Wherein, r---n (n-3)/2 vector that electric conductivity value is formed;

Y---category label;

N---the number of sample in the training set;

(r _i, y _i)---the corresponding category label of electric conductivity value vector sum in the training set, i=1,2 ..., N;

α _i, b---classifier parameters, i=1,2 ..., N;

ψ ()---the kernel function of LS-SVM sorter, $\mathrm{\&psi;}(r,r_i)=\exp \left(\frac{{|r-r_i|}^2}{{\mathrm{\&sigma;}}^2}\right),$ σ is its parameter.

Each parameter alpha in the sorter _i, b, σ is obtained through computation optimization by training dataset and LS-SVM algorithm.

The job step of the leading phase discrimination module of computing machine is sent into the electric conductivity value that measures in three sub-classifiers and to be classified as shown in Figure 4, according to three classification results the flow state of this moment is inferred, is included into a most probable class.Determine the flow coefficient k of restricting element according to differentiating result and formula (4) then, and then calculate the hybrid density ρ of liquid-liquid diphasic flow by formula (3).

Because whole metering pipeline is shorter, can think that the temperature of whole pipeline is consistent, computing machine extracts the density p of two-phase fluid when the temperature T according to measured temperature T from memory module ₁And ρ ₂If x ₁And x ₂The branch phase volume that is two fluids respectively contains rate, according to ρ=x ₁ρ ₁+ x ₂ρ ₂And x ₁+ x ₂=1, can obtain:

Total mass flow rate: Q _m=ρ Q _v(6)

The volume of fluid 1 contains rate: $x_1=\frac{\mathrm{\&rho;}-{\mathrm{\&rho;}}_2}{{\mathrm{\&rho;}}_1-{\mathrm{\&rho;}}_2};---\left(7\right)$

The volume of fluid 2 contains rate: $x_2=\frac{{\mathrm{\&rho;}}_1-\mathrm{\&rho;}}{{\mathrm{\&rho;}}_1-{\mathrm{\&rho;}}_2};---\left(8\right)$

The volumetric flow rate of fluid 1: Q _V1=x ₁Q _v(9)

The volumetric flow rate of fluid 2: Q _V2=x ₂Q _v(10)

The mass rate of fluid 1: Q _M1=ρ ₁Q _V1(11)

The mass rate of fluid 2: Q _M2=ρ ₂Q _V2(12)

To sum up, the step of the liquid-liquid diphasic flow measuring method of employing dominant phase arbiter is as shown in Figure 5:

1) obtains conductance signal, the total volumetric flow rate Q of liquid-liquid diphasic flow by each measurement instrument _v, differential pressure signal Δ p and temperature T;

2) dominant phase arbiter is determined the flow coefficient k of restricting element according to this according to the leading phase of conductance signal differentiation liquid-liquid diphasic flow by formula (4);

3) check in the density p of each fluid by temperature T ₁And ρ ₂, then with differential pressure signal Δ p, total volumetric flow rate Q _v, flow coefficient k, each fluid density ρ ₁, ρ ₂Substitution formula (3), formula (6)～(12) calculate data such as two-phase flow hybrid density, total mass flow rate and each fluid separate phase flow rate.

Be to test on the horizontal tube of 15mm, 25mm and 40mm at internal diameter at the diesel fuel-water two-phase flow, conductivity sensor adopts 16 needle electrodes, and volumeter adopts oval gear flowmeter, and the profit total volumetric flow rate is 1.2～5.5m ³/ h divides phase content to cover 0% to 100%.Test findings shows, if the coefficient of flow that Venturi tube adopts single single-phase water to demarcate, the measuring relative errors of two-phase flow hybrid density and total mass flow rate can reach 8.2%, 8.3% respectively, if the coefficient of flow that adopts single-phase diesel oil to demarcate, the measuring relative errors of hybrid density and total mass flow rate has then reached 7.9%, 8.0% respectively, and use this method and device, the measuring relative errors of two-phase flow hybrid density and total mass flow rate is all in ± 4%.

Claims (5)

1. a liquid-liquid diphasic flow measuring method that adopts dominant phase arbiter is characterized in that comprising the steps:

1) utilizes conductivity sensor to obtain the conductance signal of liquid-liquid diphasic flow, utilize volumetric displacement meter to obtain the total volumetric flow rate Q of liquid-liquid diphasic flow _v, utilize differential pressure transmitter to obtain the differential pressure Δ p at restricting element place, utilize temperature transmitter to obtain the temperature T of liquid-liquid diphasic flow;

2) dominant phase arbiter is according to conductance signal, differentiate the leading phase of liquid-liquid diphasic flow in conjunction with the least square method supporting vector machine sorting technique, according to the leading two-phase flow coefficient of selecting restricting element mutually, if fluid 1 is taken phase as the leading factor, then its two-phase flow coefficient is chosen as the flow coefficient k of demarcating with monophasic fluid 1 ₁, if fluid 2 is taken phase as the leading factor, then the two-phase flow coefficient of restricting element is chosen as the flow coefficient k of demarcating with monophasic fluid 2 ₂, if liquid-liquid diphasic flow is in an interim state, then its two-phase flow coefficient is chosen as K ₁And K ₂Mean value;

3) calculate formula and flow signal Q based on the incompressible fluid volumetric flow rate of restricting element _v, differential pressure signal Δ p, temperature signal T obtain hybrid density, total mass flow rate and separate phase flow rate, the liquid-liquid diphasic flow hybrid density is $\mathrm{\&rho;}=\frac{K^2\mathrm{\&Delta;p}}{{Q_v}^2},$ Total mass flow rate is Q _m=ρ Q _v, the volume of fluid 1 contains rate and is $x_1=\frac{\mathrm{\&rho;}-{\mathrm{\&rho;}}_2}{{\mathrm{\&rho;}}_1-{\mathrm{\&rho;}}_2},$ The volume of fluid 2 contains rate $x_2=\frac{{\mathrm{\&rho;}}_1-\mathrm{\&rho;}}{{\mathrm{\&rho;}}_1-{\mathrm{\&rho;}}_2},$ The volumetric flow rate of fluid 1 is Q _V1=x ₁Q _v, the volumetric flow rate of fluid 2 is Q _V2=x ₂Q _v, the mass rate of fluid 1 is Q _M1=ρ ₁Q _V1, the mass rate of fluid 2 is Q _M2=ρ ₂Q _V2, wherein: ρ ₁, ρ ₂---be respectively fluid 1, the density of fluid 2 when temperature T, the coefficient of flow of K---restricting element.

2. a kind of liquid-liquid diphasic flow measuring method according to claim 1 is characterized in that the method for the leading phase of described differentiation liquid-liquid diphasic flow comprises the steps:

1) obtains the electric conductivity value of two-phase flow in the pipeline by conductance measurement and Acquisition Circuit;

2) the leading phase discrimination module of computing machine uses the sorter of being set up by least square method supporting vector machine, and according to conductance signal the flow state of liquid-liquid diphasic flow is divided into three classes: fluid 1 is taken phase as the leading factor, fluid 2 is taken phase, transition state as the leading factor.

3. liquid-liquid diphasic flow measurement mechanism that adopts dominant phase arbiter, it is characterized in that: it has the metering pipeline, on the metering pipeline, conductivity sensor, restricting element, volumetric displacement meter, temperature transmitter are installed successively, conductivity sensor is connected with computing machine through conductance measurement and Acquisition Circuit, restricting element is connected with differential pressure transmitter, differential pressure transmitter, volumetric displacement meter, temperature transmitter are connected with computing machine through data acquisition circuit, and conductivity sensor, conductance measurement and Acquisition Circuit and computing machine constitute dominant phase arbiter.

4. a kind of liquid-liquid diphasic flow measurement mechanism according to claim 3, the sensing pipeline section (1) that it is characterized in that described conductivity sensor adopts pmma material, two ends link to each other with tested pipeline by joint flange (2), n electrode (3) is installed around the sensing pipeline section inwall equally spacedly, n 〉=6 wherein, electrode links to each other with conductance measurement and Acquisition Circuit by radioshielding line (4).

5. a kind of liquid-liquid diphasic flow measurement mechanism according to claim 3 is characterized in that described restricting element is a Venturi tube, and volumetric flow rate is counted volumeter.

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