Monitoring Severe Slugging in Pipeline-Riser System Using Accelerometers for Application in Early Recognition

The use of accelerometer signals for early recognition of severe slugging is investigated in a pipeline-riser system conveying an air–water two-phase flow, where six accelerometers are installed from the bottom to the top of the riser. Twelve different environmental conditions are produced by changing water and gas superficial velocities, of which three conditions are stable states and the other conditions are related to severe slugging. For online recognition, simple parameters using statistics and linear prediction coefficients are employed to extract useful features. Binary classification to recognize stable flow and severe slugging is performed using a support vector machine and a neural network. In multiclass classification, the neural network is adopted to identify four flow patterns of stable state, two types of severe slugging, and an irregular transition state between severe slugging and dual-frequency severe slugging. The performance is compared and analyzed according to the signal length for three cases of sensor location: six accelerometers, one accelerometer at the riser base, and one accelerometer at the top of the riser.

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