抄録
In this paper the liquid phase velocity and gas-liquid interface information obtained from UVP measurements are used to estimate the flowrate in a multiphase flow pipeline. The interface is found two different approaches ; by locating the maximum echo intensity at every velocity profile and by finding the maximum variance of the velocity values. The results from the echo intensity method show very good agreement with the actual flowrate. The expected average difference between the flowrate predicted by the echo intensity method and the actual flowrate is ± 5%. That between the variance of the velocity values method and the actual flowrate is -19 to 22 %.
