Multiphase Flow Laboratory: Severe Slugging Submerged Flexible Riser

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Multiphase flow laboratory

Type of dynamic experiments:

• Flushing: Oil, water, gas, • Pigging and plug release


particles • Bubble dynamics
• Severe slugging • Gas lift
• Fluid-structure interaction • Transients at flow regime
• Roll waves and slug flow transitions
• Slug control • Riser flow instabilities

Submerged flexible riser Severe slugging


(From marine technology laboratory)

W-pipe liquid flushing Large diameter

Plug release

Separator and pumps

Vertical flows Controls

Mixing
Gas-oil-water flow

Metering
Flushing

Contact :
Professor Ole Jørgen Nydal
Department of Energy and Process Engineering
e-mail: ole.j.nydal@ntnu.no
Dynamic simulation of
multiphase flow in pipelines
Model:
• Designed for transient flow simulations
• Hybrid capturing and tracking
• Slug and pig dynamics
• Conservation equations on a multi-scale moving grid
• Object oriented, C++
Examples:
Oil-water flushing Long risers

Hydrodynamic/severe slugging

Fluid structure interaction

Slug statistics
Experiments
Experiments Computations
Computations Stratified flow
upstream

x/D=20

Plug release
x/D=80

x/D=120

Riser slugging

Contact :
Professor Ole Jørgen Nydal
Department of Energy and Process Engineering
e-mail: ole.j.nydal@ntnu.no

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