- Patent Title: Liquid NMR signal boost during NMR flow metering of wet gas flow using enhanced signal relaxation and/or dynamic nuclear polarisation using immobilised radicals
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Application No.: US17330783Application Date: 2021-05-26
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Publication No.: US11549836B2Publication Date: 2023-01-10
- Inventor: Michael Leslie Johns , Masoumeh Zargar , Einar Orn Fridjonsson , Paul Stanwix , Jana M. Al-Jindan , Mohamed Nabil Noui-Mehidi
- Applicant: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY , UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
- Applicant Address: SA Dhahran; AU Crawley
- Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY,UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
- Current Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY,UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
- Current Assignee Address: SA Dhahran; AU Crawley
- Agency: Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton LLP
- Main IPC: G01F1/716
- IPC: G01F1/716

Abstract:
A multiphase flow metering device may have a conduit through which a multiphase fluid can flow and a structured packing insert positioned in the conduit. The structured packing insert may have a water-wet packing structure zone and/or an oil-wet packing structure zone. The multiphase flow metering device may also have a Halbach pre-polarizing magnet array positioned around the conduit, an RF coil, an electromagnet, an NMR console adapted to detect NMR signals from the multiphase fluid, and a control system configured to vary a polarization of the Halbach pre-polarizing magnet array. The Halbach pre-polarizing magnet array may be positioned or positionable over one or both of the oil-wet and water-wet packing structure zones. In some embodiments, the structured packing insert may include immobilized radicals, providing for dynamic nuclear polarization of the multiphase fluid.
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