Feasibility Study of Using X-ray Tube and GMDH for Measuring Volume Fractions of Annular and Stratified Regimes in Three-Phase Flows, By Gholam Hossein Roshani

Research

Title	Feasibility Study of Using X-ray Tube and GMDH for Measuring Volume Fractions of Annular and Stratified Regimes in Three-Phase Flows
Type	Article
Keywords	volume fraction; X-ray tube; photon; annular regime; stratified regime; artificial intelligence
Researchers	Gholam Hossein Roshani، Peshawa Jammal Muhammad Ali، shiavn mohammed، Robert Hanus، Lokman Abdulkareem، Adnan Alhathal Alanezi، Ehsan Nazemi، Ehsan Eftekhari zadeh، El Mostafa Kalmoun

Abstract

In this paper, the feasibility of using an X-ray tube instead of radioisotope sources for measuring volume fractions of gas, oil, and water in two typical flow regimes of three-phase flows, namely, annular and stratified, is evaluated. This study’s proposed detection system is composed of an X-ray tube, a 1 inch × 1 inch NaI detector, and one Pyrex-glass pipe to model different volume fractions for two flow regimes, annular and stratified. Group method of data handling (GMDH), a powerful regression tool, was also implemented to analyze the obtained data. The obtained results in this work indicate that a simple system based on an X-ray tube and just one NaI detector could be a potential alternative to radioisotope-based systems for separate measurements of gas, oil, and water volume fractions in annular and stratified flow regimes of a three-phase flow.