Instrumentation Selection for Oil and Gas Applications (Flow)

Participants will learn how to:

• Review the basics of flow profiles.
• Discuss the different technologies used for flow switches.
• Identify the working principle, and advantages and disadvantages of the following positive displacement meters.
• Identify the working principle, advantages and disadvantages of the following head loss meter technologies.
• Describe the basic working principle of a turbine meter.
• Explain Faraday’s law and how this may be applied to the measuring liquid flow.
• Describe the working principle of Doppler-based meters.
• Review the working principle of transit-time meters.
• Explain the working principles of clamp-on meters.
• Review some of the tube arrangements used in Coriolis measurement.
• Describe the phenomenon of vortex shedding and the formation of vortices.
• Explain how the Strouhal factor varies with the bluff body shape and Reynolds number.
• Describe the working principle of a typical vortex meter.
• Discuss the role of a three-phase separator.
• Identify the need for multiphase flow metering (MPFM).
• Explain the differences between calibration, verification, proving, and validation.
• Discuss some of the on-site open and closed tank prover systems.
• Explain the working principle of a bidirectional pipe prover.
• Describe the working principle of eight unidirectional pipe prover.
• Review the use and working principle of piston provers.
• Describe the role of a LACT system.
• Discuss the role of environmental influences.
• Identify some common selection criteria.
• Explain Safety Instrumented System (SIS) and their uses.