@article{scholars9827,
            note = {cited By 21},
         journal = {Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering},
            year = {2018},
       publisher = {Elsevier B.V.},
          volume = {170},
           title = {Experimental investigation on the effect of diameter ratio on two-phase slug flow separation in a T-Junction},
             doi = {10.1016/j.petrol.2018.06.033},
           pages = {139--150},
        keywords = {Drilling platforms; Flow separation; Intersections; Liquids, Diameter ratio; Downstream equipment; Experimental investigations; Gas-liquid separation; Liquid carryovers; Off shore platforms; Slug flow; T junctions, Phase separation, diameter; experimental study; gas flow; multiphase flow; pipeline; separation; slug flow; two phase flow},
          author = {Saieed, A. and Pao, W. and Hewakandamby, B. and Azzopardi, B. J. and Wood, D. A. and Ali, H. M.},
            issn = {09204105},
             url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85048882000&doi=10.1016\%2fj.petrol.2018.06.033&partnerID=40&md5=33e5ea29ba2aa5338f91374544f95b6c},
        abstract = {T-junctions are often used in offshore platforms to partially separate gas from produced fluids. Poorly designed T-junctions frequently produce very high liquid (oil and/or water) carryovers, causing major issues to the downstream equipment train which is not designed to handle excessive liquid. This paper reports the liquid carryover experiments in T-junctions using five different side to main arm diameter ratios under slug flow regime. The obtained phase separation curves can be divided into two component variables; liquid-carryover threshold and peak liquid carryover. The experiments demonstrate that with a decrease in diameter ratio both of these variables decrease. Yet, for superior multiphase flow separation, a high liquid carryover threshold and a low peak liquid carryover are required. Hence, the generally accepted rule that a reduction in diameter ratio improves the phase separation is revealed to be an over-extrapolated statement. The novel findings of this work are: 1) for optimum flow splitting under slug flow conditions, the diameter ratio should be kept between 1 and 0.67, while the diameter ratio 0.67 was found to be most suitable; 2) two correlations were developed for predicting two-phase slug flow separation in different diameter ratio T-junctions. These correlations offer beneficial guidance and clarifications for a number of oil and gas flowline and pipeline applications. {\^A}{\copyright} 2018 Elsevier B.V.}
}