Quantitative multi-species hydrocarbon metrology in gas pipelines

天然气管道中多物种碳氢化合物的定量计量

基本信息

批准号：
ST/T000635/1
负责人：
Derryck Reid
金额：
$ 45.69万
依托单位：
Heriot-Watt University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2019 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FT000635%2F1
关键词：
Quantitative multi species hydrocarbon metrology

项目摘要

Accurately monitoring the flow of natural gas from a petroleum reservoir is a critical capability that enables petroleum companies to quantify the productivity of their oil and gas fields. Conventional flow meters operate on "dry gas" (in which no oil or water is present) and offer no compositional information about the gas, simply providing an average mass-flow rate. A product delivering the flow rates of individual hydrocarbons would add significant value by allowing the energy transported to be calculated, opening up new markets such as "custody transfer", in which oil and gas are transferred from one operator to another. A further generalisation would be a meter providing compositional information of "wet gas", in which oil and water are also present, as is common from gas fields that are nearing the end of their productive lifetime. Enhancing conventional flow meters with compositional information would increase the addressable market from £2.4B to £6.7B. This market is both large and timely, with customers who are able to invest in development once a working prototype has been demonstrated. It is therefore well suited to IPS funding, offering a potentially high return on investment on a timescale of 3 to 6 years.This proposal is a partnership between Heriot-Watt University and two companies -- GM Flow, a leader in dry-gas metering, and Chromacity, which spun out from Heriot-Watt in 2013 and has commercialized our mid-infrared laser technology. STFC investment of £353K will be leveraged by direct and in-kind contributions > £400K from the industrial partners and £88K (20% FEC) from Heriot-Watt. Post-project investment of a further £400K is committed by the industrial partners to complete commercialization of the technology.The project will lead to the commercialization of an innovative gas metering product providing laser-based multi-species gas concentration measurement, and drawing on our recent STFC-funded (ST/P00699X/1) research in this area. The vision is that by the end of the project the partners will be ready to bring to market a complete system, comprising an integrated laser and spectrometer, with fibre delivery of mid-IR light to a remote flow-meter head. Chromacity will lead the system integration, GM Flow the flow-meter design and Heriot-Watt the optical design and data processing aspects. A collaboration with the ORC in Southampton will give the project access to innovative low-loss "hollow core" mid-IR fibres, as an alternative to commercially available but higher loss fluoride glass fibres.STFC IPS funding will be used strategically to resolve the technical or commercial "known unknowns" that currently stand as roadblocks to the technical realization of the concept or its commercialization. Technical questions which will be addressed include: understanding the range and limitations of fibre-delivered broadband light for mid-IR spectroscopy; assessing the capability and limitations of algorithms for extracting concentrations of multiple hydrocarbons; and identifying the best practical embodiments for fibre-fed spectroscopy within a flow-meter. Similarly, the project will answer commercially important questions, such as whether the measurement uncertainty provided by the technique is compatible with customer requirements. Field trials with potential early adopters will also provide vital feedback needed to define the minimum viable product acceptable by the market.The project will leverage resources (notably a £90K Chromacity mid-IR laser) from an earlier STFC funded CLASP project project, with the main STFC funding being used for consumables and PDRA resource. As a practical knowledge exchange mechanism, the PDRA will transition in Year 3 to spending 50% of his time in Chromacity, with the associated cost met by the company.

准确监测来自石油储层的天然气流量是一项关键能力，它使石油公司能够量化其油气田的生产力，传统流量计使用的是“干气”（其中不存在油或水）。不提供有关气体的成分信息，仅提供平均质量流量提供单个碳氢化合物流量的产品将通过计算能量传输来增加显着的价值，从而开辟“贸易交接”等新市场，其中油进一步的概括是提供“湿气”成分信息的仪表，其中也存在油和水，这在接近其生产寿命结束的气田中很常见。通过成分信息增强传统流量计会将潜在市场从 £2.4B 增加到 £6.7B。这个市场既庞大又及时，一旦工作原型得到充分论证，客户就能够投资开发。适合IPS资金，在 3 至 6 年的时间范围内提供潜在的高投资回报。该提案是赫瑞瓦特大学与两家公司之间的合作伙伴关系——干气计量领域的领导者 GM Flow 和分拆出来的 Chromacity 2013 年，我们从赫瑞瓦特公司获得了该技术，并将我们的中红外激光技术商业化，STFC 投资 35.3 万英镑，将通过来自工业合作伙伴和超过 40 万英镑的直接和实物捐助来利用。赫瑞瓦特公司承诺提供 88,000 英镑（20% FEC）的项目后投资，并由工业合作伙伴承诺完成该技术的商业化。该项目将实现提供激光的创新燃气计量产品的商业化。基于多物种气体浓度测量，并利用我们最近在该领域资助的 (ST/P00699X/1) 研究，我们的愿景是，到项目结束时，合作伙伴将准备好将其带入该领域。 Chromacity 将主导系统集成，GM Flow 负责流量计设计，Heriot-Watt 负责光学设计和技术。与南安普敦 ORC 的合作将使该项目获得创新的低损耗“空心”中红外光纤，作为市售但损耗较高的氟化物玻璃纤维的替代品。 STFC IPS 资金将战略性地用于解决目前阻碍该概念的技术实现或其商业化的技术或商业“已知的未知因素”，将解决的技术问题包括：了解光纤传输宽带光的范围和局限性。中红外光谱学；评估提取多种碳氢化合物浓度的算法的能力和局限性；并确定流量计内光纤馈电光谱学的最佳实用实施例。该技术提供的测量不确定性与客户要求兼容。潜在早期采用者的现场试验还将提供定义市场可接受的最低可行产品所需的重要反馈。该项目将利用资源（特别是价值 9 万英镑的 Chromacity 中红外）。激光）来自早期 STFC 资助的 CLASP 项目，STFC 的主要资金用于消耗品和 PDRA 资源。作为一种实用的知识交流机制，PDRA 将在第 3 年过渡到将 50% 的时间花在研究上。 Chromacity，相关成本由公司承担。