API 2566 : 2005

Table of Contents

1 INTRODUCTION
2 NOMENCLATURE AND TERMS USED IN MULTIPHASE FLOW
3 THE NEED FOR MULTIPHASE AND WET GAS METERS
4 MULTIPHASE METER AND WET GAS METER INSTALLATIONS
5 MULTIPHASE FLOW REGIMES
6 PRINCIPLES OF MULTIPHASE MEASUREMENTS
7 MULTIPHASE MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES
   7.1 Volumetric Fraction Measurements Using Non-Nuclear
        Methods
   7.2 Volumetric Fraction Measurements Using Gamma Ray
        Attenuation
   7.3 Measurement of Component Velocities
8 CLASSIFICATION OF MULTIPHASE METERS
   8.1 Type I Multiphase Measurement System
   8.2 Type II Multiphase Measurement Systems
   8.3 Type III Multiphase Measurement Systems
9 ACCURACY-UNCERTAINTY
   9.1 Specifications for Accuracy-Uncertainty
10 PERFORMANCE OF COMMERCIAL MULTIPHASE METERS
11 WET GAS METERING
12 TYPES OF WET GAS
   12.1 Type I wet gas
   12.2 Type II wet gas
   12.3 Type III wet gas
13 WET GAS METERING STRATEGIES
14 METERING SYSTEMS FOR TYPE I WET GAS
15 METERING SYSTEMS FOR TYPE II WET GAS
16 METERING SYSTEMS FOR TYPE III WET GAS
17 PERFORMANCE-MULTIPHASE AND WET GAS METERING SYSTEMS
18 INSTALLATIONS GUIDELINES
19 TESTING GUIDELINES
   19.1 Items to have available for review before and
        during tests
   19.2 Performance of FAT
   19.3 Items to be made available to users at the end
        of FAT
20 FIELD TESTING GUIDELINES
21 PERIODIC FIELD TESTING
22 REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS
APPENDIX 1 NOMENCLATURE, TERMS, AND DEFINITIONS
APPENDIX 2 REFERENCED PUBLICATIONS
APPENDIX 3 SURVEY FORMS, PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATIONS

Abstract

Gives information available in open literature, and from vendors, on the state of the art of multiphase metering systems.

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Publisher	American Petroleum Institute
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