The Society of Convergence Knowledge Transactions ISSN:2287-8920(Print) 융복합지식학회논문지

Water Cut Meter is an equipment that measures the ratio of water flow among crude oil components flowing through pipelines at an oil production site. The rise of unconventional energies has led to an increase in oil sand production, which requires a higher degree of accuracy in the proportion of water in the production fluid. Industry utilizes Multiphase Flow Loops to establish the performance accuracy of flow meters and Water Cut Meters prior to field deployment. Countries with such facilities include the United States and the United Kingdom, but there is currently no national water cut meter calibration institute in South Korea. In this study, water cut measurement experiment and computational fluid analysis (CFD) were performed by configuring a water cut meter calibration system. As a result of experiments and CFD, in Case 1 (Water:Oil=1:1), the concentration of oil was higher than that of water compared to the ratio of water and oil injected into the test tank, whereas Case 3 (Water:Oil=3:1) showed a lower oil concentration, so the volume fraction of water and oil was different from the initial input ratio. Through this study, it was confirmed that the Water Cut Meter calibration system should be configured on the premise that the flow properties in the pipeline are different depending on the ratio of water and oil components.