Pipeline sand-containing monitoring device with double probes
Technical Field
The invention relates to a sand-containing monitoring and detecting device for an oil-gas field pipeline, which is particularly suitable for a real-time monitoring device for the sand-containing condition of an offshore oil-gas field wellhead pipeline.
Background
In the exploitation process of oil and gas wells, sand production is a common phenomenon, is also one of the difficulties in oilfield exploitation, and especially in the middle and later stages of oilfield exploitation, the reservoir framework is also greatly damaged due to long-term water injection or gas injection exploitation, so that the sand production of the oil well is caused.
Sand-containing monitoring devices based on acoustic principles used in current offshore oil and gas fields generally have the problem of false alarm and missing report due to the influence of noise such as platform vibration, offshore stormy waves and manual operation. Meanwhile, when the environment is changed, the parameters of the monitoring device need to be reset, and because the equipment has strong specialization, manufacturers need to debug the offshore platform, and the time is long. Because the sand-containing condition of the pipeline cannot be accurately monitored, the sand prevention and sand removal lag of the offshore platform is caused, and the production of offshore oil and gas fields is greatly influenced.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to overcome the defects of the prior art and provide the pipeline sand-containing monitoring device with the double probes, which can not generate sand content missing report and false report.
The aim of the invention is achieved by the following technical scheme.
The invention discloses a sand-containing monitoring device for a pipeline with double probes, which is characterized in that an elbow piezoelectric transducer is fixed at an elbow of the pipeline, at least one straight pipe piezoelectric transducer is fixed on a straight pipe section of the pipeline at intervals, the elbow piezoelectric transducer is used for acquiring a first sound wave signal generated by collision of an environmental noise signal and sand grains with the inner wall of the pipeline, the straight pipe piezoelectric transducer is used for acquiring a second sound wave signal caused by the environmental noise, the distance between the straight pipe piezoelectric transducer and the elbow piezoelectric transducer is 1-2m, the elbow piezoelectric transducer and the straight pipe piezoelectric transducer are respectively connected with an analysis host through signal wires, the first sound wave signal and the second sound wave signal are respectively transmitted to the analysis host, and the analysis host executes the following steps:
Judging whether the number of the second acoustic signals is larger than 1, if so, comparing every two waveforms of the second acoustic signals, if the waveforms of the second acoustic signals are consistent, judging that the straight pipe piezoelectric transducers are installed correctly, and then executing a second step, otherwise, adjusting the mutual positions of the straight pipe piezoelectric transducers or replacing the straight pipe piezoelectric transducers until the waveforms of the second acoustic signals are consistent, and then executing the second step;
Comparing the waveforms of the first waveform signal and the second waveform signal, if the waveforms are consistent, judging that no sand exists in the pipeline, otherwise, judging that sand exists in the pipeline, and then executing the next step;
Thirdly, calculating collision energy of sand particles in the pipeline according to an amplitude difference value between the first acoustic signal and the second acoustic signal for a wave band with inconsistent waveforms of the first waveform signal and the second acoustic signal, calculating the mass of the sand particles according to the fluid flow rate of the pipeline, and performing sand particle mass accumulation calculation in a period of time to obtain total mass of the sand particles, wherein the total mass of the sand particles is the total sand content in the period of time;
The display terminal is connected with the analysis host computer through a signal wire and is used for outputting a first acoustic signal waveform, a second acoustic signal waveform and a judging result of whether sand is contained or not, and if the sand is contained, the total mass of sand is displayed according to the calculating result of the third step.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
(1) The technical value is that the technical level of sand-containing monitoring of the offshore oil and gas pipeline of an enterprise is improved, a solution is provided for the problem of false alarm missing in sand-containing monitoring, and the defect of the existing sand-containing monitoring equipment is overcome.
(2) The economic value is that the sand content of the oil field extract gradually rises along with the entering of the offshore oil field into the middle and later stages and the exploitation of thick oil, and the sand content monitoring equipment is mainly applied to the Bohai sea oil field and the south sea oil field, so that the large-scale application can be realized, and the expected application times are more than 100.
(3) The device has the application value that the problem of sand production of current offshore oil and gas fields is more and more, and the device can be used for monitoring sand content of pipelines and providing data support for effective sand prevention and sand control of offshore platforms.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a dual probe pipe sand monitoring device of the present invention.
Detailed Description
The invention is further described below with reference to the accompanying drawings:
As shown in figure 1, in the pipeline sand-containing monitoring device with the double probes, an elbow piezoelectric transducer 4 is fixed at an elbow of a pipeline 1, at least one straight pipe piezoelectric transducer 6 is fixed on a straight pipe section of the pipeline at intervals, the straight pipe piezoelectric transducer 6 and the elbow piezoelectric transducer 4 can be fixed on the pipeline 1 by adopting stainless steel hoops, and the straight pipe piezoelectric transducer 6 and the elbow piezoelectric transducer 4 are all available in the market by adopting the existing piezoelectric transducers.
The elbow piezoelectric transducer 4 is used for acquiring a first sound wave signal 3 generated by collision of an environmental noise signal and sand grains with the inner wall of a pipeline, and the straight pipe piezoelectric transducer 6 is used for acquiring a second sound wave signal caused by the environmental noise, wherein the sand grain motion track is shown as 2.
The distance between the straight pipe piezoelectric transducer 6 and the elbow piezoelectric transducer 4 is 1-2m, so that sand grains in the pipeline can impact the inner wall of the elbow of the pipeline, and after being acquired by the elbow piezoelectric transducer 4, sound wave signals are attenuated to 0 when being transmitted to the area of the straight pipe piezoelectric transducer 6. At this time, the signals acquired by the elbow piezoelectric transducer 4 include an environmental noise signal and an acoustic wave signal of collision of sand grains with the inner wall of the pipeline, and the straight pipe piezoelectric transducer 6 acquires only the environmental noise signal.
The elbow piezoelectric transducer 4 and the straight pipe piezoelectric transducer 6 are respectively connected with an analysis host through signal wires, the first acoustic wave signal and the second acoustic wave signal are respectively transmitted to the analysis host, and the analysis host executes the following steps:
Judging whether the number of the second acoustic signals is larger than 1, if so, comparing every two waveforms of the second acoustic signals, if the waveforms of the second acoustic signals are consistent, judging that the straight pipe piezoelectric transducer 6 is installed correctly, and then executing the second step, otherwise, adjusting the mutual positions of the straight pipe piezoelectric transducers or replacing the straight pipe piezoelectric transducers until the waveforms of the second acoustic signals are consistent, and then executing the second step;
Comparing the waveforms of the first waveform signal and the second waveform signal, if the waveforms are consistent, judging that no sand exists in the pipeline, otherwise, judging that sand exists in the pipeline, and then executing the next step;
thirdly, calculating the collision energy of sand particles in the pipeline according to the amplitude difference between the first acoustic signal and the second acoustic signal for the wave bands where the waveforms of the first waveform signal and the second acoustic signal are inconsistent (a calculation formula is shown in a formula 1 below), calculating the mass of sand particles according to the flow rate of the fluid in the pipeline (a calculation formula is shown in a formula 3), and performing sand particle mass accumulation calculation in a period of time to obtain the total mass of sand particles, wherein the total mass of sand particles is the total sand content in the period of time.
(1)
Wherein: is the collision energy of the ith sand grain, The difference in amplitude between the first acoustic signal and the second acoustic signal at the ith grit is the voltage difference.The conversion coefficient between the amplitude difference value between the first acoustic wave signal and the second acoustic wave signal and the collision energy is an empirical value, and the value is obtained through a laboratory sand-containing monitoring test, namely in a laboratory environment, the collision energy of sand particles can be obtained according to the movement speed of the sand particles by adopting a formula 3, and the amplitude difference value between the first acoustic wave signal and the second acoustic wave signal can be obtained through a piezoelectric transducer, namely the value can be reversely deduced through a formula 2,Can be measured in advance. Namely:
(2)
(3)
Wherein: is the collision energy of the ith sand grain, The intrinsic parameters of the piezoelectric transducer are empirical values, the value is usually 0.8,And v is the fluid velocity for the mass of the ith grit.
The display terminal is connected with the analysis host computer through a signal wire and is used for outputting a first acoustic signal waveform, a second acoustic signal waveform and a judging result of whether sand is contained or not, and if the sand is contained, the total mass of sand is displayed according to the calculating result of the third step.
The analysis host and the display terminal are powered by the power supply module, and the power supply module is used for supplying 24V power for the analysis host and the display terminal.
Although the function and operation of the present invention has been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, the present invention is not limited to the above-described specific functions and operations, but the above-described specific embodiments are merely illustrative, not restrictive, and many forms can be made by those having ordinary skill in the art without departing from the spirit of the present invention and the scope of the appended claims, which are included in the protection of the present invention.