"Pipe Flow 2: Multi-phase Flow Assurance" by Ove Bratland

This book is the final in a series of two, and it deals with multi-phase pipe flow assurance. It progresses from single phase theory in the first book, and its purpose is to assist flow assurance engineers.

The only book binding together all the main subjects multiphase flow assurance rests on, which makes it a uniquely invaluable reference for engineers and developers involved with multi-phase pipe- and well-flow in the petroleum industry.

This volume:
• Explores topics essential to dealing with gas, oil, water, and particles flowing in pipes and wells.
• Builds on the very latest from fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, discrete mathematics, computer sciences, and automation.
• Goes through theory for two-phase, three-phase, and (partly) four-phase flow, and discusses the main issues to be dealt with from a flow assurance perspective.
• The main emphasis is on transient simulations, but steady-state methods are also discussed.
• Includes an extensive list of Suggested Reading.


Brief Contents
Preface
Foreword for the second edition
Acknowledgement
1 Introduction
2 Conservation equations
3 Two-Fluid Model
4 Three-fluid model
5 Friction, deposition and entrainment
6 Solving the two-phase three-fluid equations
7 Gas-liquid slug flow
8 Including boiling and condensation
9 Improved slug flow modeling
10 Multi-phase flow heat exchange
11 Flow regime determination
12 Numerical solution methods
13 Two-phase liquid-liquid flow
14 Two-phase liquid-solid flow
15 Three-phase gas-liquid-liquid flow
16 Three-phase gas-liquid-solid flow
17 Fluid properties
18 Deposits and pipe damage
19 Various subjects
Suggested reading
References
Nomenclature
Index


The author, Dr. Ove Bratland, was awarded his PhD from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1985.
His technical qualifications cover an unusually broad range of skills, including hydraulics and pneumatics, pipe flow with special emphasis on flow assurance, flow measurement, dynamic simulations, software development, dynamic system analysis, and automation.
He has worked hands-on with most systems common to the upstream petroleum industry, particularly those found on oil rigs and subsea in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.

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