<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "Experimental investigation on the effect of diameter ratio on two-phase slug flow separation in a T-Junction"^^ . "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. © 2018 Elsevier B.V."^^ . "2018" . . "170" . . "Elsevier B.V."^^ . . . "Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering"^^ . . . "09204105" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "D.A."^^ . "Wood"^^ . "D.A. Wood"^^ . . "W."^^ . "Pao"^^ . "W. Pao"^^ . . "B."^^ . "Hewakandamby"^^ . "B. Hewakandamby"^^ . . "H.M."^^ . "Ali"^^ . "H.M. Ali"^^ . . "A."^^ . "Saieed"^^ . "A. Saieed"^^ . . "B.J."^^ . "Azzopardi"^^ . "B.J. Azzopardi"^^ . . . . . "HTML Summary of #9827 \n\nExperimental investigation on the effect of diameter ratio on two-phase slug flow separation in a T-Junction\n\n" . "text/html" . .