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Flow Measurement of CO2 in a Binary Gaseous Mixture Using an Averaging Pitot Tube and Coriolis Mass Flowmeters

Adefila, K., Yan, Y., Sun, L., Wang, T. (2016) Flow Measurement of CO2 in a Binary Gaseous Mixture Using an Averaging Pitot Tube and Coriolis Mass Flowmeters. Flow Measurement and Instrumentation, 54 . pp. 265-272. ISSN 0955-5986. (doi:10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2016.12.007) (KAR id:59688)

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Abstract

To combat the growing emissions of CO2 from industrial processes, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and Carbon Capture and Utilization technologies (CCU) have been accepted worldwide to address these pressing concerns. So as to efficiently manage material and financial losses across the entire stream, accurate accounting and monitoring through fiscal metering of CO2 in CCS transportation pipelines are core and required features for the CCS technologies. Moreover, these technical requirements are part of the legal compliance schemes and guidelines from various regulatory bodies. The CO2 transportation pipelines will likely have multiple inputs from different capture plants, each with varying composition of CO2 and thus introducing impurities into the CO2 stream. The presence of other ordinary or hydrocarbon gases in the CO2 gas stream could affect the functionality of metering instruments by introducing additional errors, particularly in the case of volumetric flowmeters. In this study, volumetric and direct mass measurement methods for the flow measurement of CO2 mixtures using two totally different metering principles are experimentally evaluated. An Averaging Pitot Tube with Flow Conditioning Wing (APT-FCW) and Coriolis mass flowmeters (CMF) are used to assess the flow metering of CO2 in a binary gaseous mixture. Different gases (nitrogen, air, oxygen, argon and propane) are diluted as contaminants into the pure CO2 gas flow for various mass fractions to produce an adulterated mixture of the CO2 gas. Comparative analysis of the measurement results under these flow conditions relative to that of pure CO2 gas show that the measurement error of the APT-FCW sensor increases with the mass fraction of the diluent component, and gases with density closer to that of CO2 have a much lesser effect on the performance of the APT-FCW flow sensor for smaller mass fractions. The CMF proved to be very reliable in the gas combination processes and as a reference meter for the APT-FCW sensor. Further analytical observations are discussed in detail.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2016.12.007
Uncontrolled keywords: carbon capture and storage; carbon capture and utilization; CO2 gas; CO2 mixtures; averaging Pitot tube; flow conditioning wing; binary gaseous mixture; coriolis mass flowmeters
Subjects: T Technology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Engineering and Digital Arts
Depositing User: Tina Thompson
Date Deposited: 14 Dec 2016 09:13 UTC
Last Modified: 17 Aug 2022 12:21 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/59688 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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