Modern Solution for Oil Well Multiphase Flows Water Cut Metering

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aliaksei Sottsau ◽  
Ramir Akbashev ◽  
Alexandr Peratsiahin ◽  
Vadim Garnaev

Abstract An innovative technology for determining the water cut in well products (without preliminary separation into liquid and gas fractions) uses the results of electrical impedance measurements and its dependence on the alternating current frequency. Water cut meter's sensor includes measuring and current electrodes, between which there is a well's multiphase flow. Imaginary and real components of the impedance quantitatively describe the component composition of the studied oil and gas-water mixtures. In this process, machine learning methods and developed algorithms for features extraction are used. Depending on the type of emulsion, two independent sensors are used in the oil pipeline, one of which measures in a direct emulsion, the other in an inverse emulsion. Tests of the described water cut meter on flow loops in the Russian Federation and in the Netherlands, as well as studies of well flows in oil production facilities in the Russian Federation and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, have shown high measurement accuracy in the full range of water cut, with high gas content, as well as at high salinity and in a wide range of flow rates. To do so, modern methods of data classification based on neural networks and regression modeling implemented using machine learning are employed. It was found that the flow rates of liquid and gas do not affect the results of measuring the water cut due to the high frequency of the impedance measurements - up to 100 thousand measurements per second. Use of in-line multiphase water cut meter makes it possible to apply intelligent methods of processing field information and accumulate statistical data for each well, as a big data element for predicting and modeling in-situ processes. It will also allow to introduce promising production processes aimed at increasing oil production and monitoring the baseline indicators of the well. Novelty of the presented technology: Solution of the problem of high-speed determination of water cut in a multiphase flow without preliminary separation using impedance metering. Creation of mathematical models of multiphase flow and methods for determining the type of flow and the type of emulsion. Machine learning methods and neural networks employment for high-speed analysis of flow changes. Development, successful testing and implementation of an affordable multiphase water cut meter of our own design, which has no analogs in industrial applications.

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (S306) ◽  
pp. 279-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hobson ◽  
Philip Graff ◽  
Farhan Feroz ◽  
Anthony Lasenby

AbstractMachine-learning methods may be used to perform many tasks required in the analysis of astronomical data, including: data description and interpretation, pattern recognition, prediction, classification, compression, inference and many more. An intuitive and well-established approach to machine learning is the use of artificial neural networks (NNs), which consist of a group of interconnected nodes, each of which processes information that it receives and then passes this product on to other nodes via weighted connections. In particular, I discuss the first public release of the generic neural network training algorithm, calledSkyNet, and demonstrate its application to astronomical problems focusing on its use in the BAMBI package for accelerated Bayesian inference in cosmology, and the identification of gamma-ray bursters. TheSkyNetand BAMBI packages, which are fully parallelised using MPI, are available athttp://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/software/.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Zeshan Peng

With the advancement of machine learning methods, audio sentiment analysis has become an active research area in recent years. For example, business organizations are interested in persuasion tactics from vocal cues and acoustic measures in speech. A typical approach is to find a set of acoustic features from audio data that can indicate or predict a customer's attitude, opinion, or emotion state. For audio signals, acoustic features have been widely used in many machine learning applications, such as music classification, language recognition, emotion recognition, and so on. For emotion recognition, previous work shows that pitch and speech rate features are important features. This thesis work focuses on determining sentiment from call center audio records, each containing a conversation between a sales representative and a customer. The sentiment of an audio record is considered positive if the conversation ended with an appointment being made, and is negative otherwise. In this project, a data processing and machine learning pipeline for this problem has been developed. It consists of three major steps: 1) an audio record is split into segments by speaker turns; 2) acoustic features are extracted from each segment; and 3) classification models are trained on the acoustic features to predict sentiment. Different set of features have been used and different machine learning methods, including classical machine learning algorithms and deep neural networks, have been implemented in the pipeline. In our deep neural network method, the feature vectors of audio segments are stacked in temporal order into a feature matrix, which is fed into deep convolution neural networks as input. Experimental results based on real data shows that acoustic features, such as Mel frequency cepstral coefficients, timbre and Chroma features, are good indicators for sentiment. Temporal information in an audio record can be captured by deep convolutional neural networks for improved prediction accuracy.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (23) ◽  
pp. 7232
Author(s):  
Costel Anton ◽  
Silvia Curteanu ◽  
Cătălin Lisa ◽  
Florin Leon

Most of the time, industrial brick manufacture facilities are designed and commissioned for a particular type of manufacture mix and a particular type of burning process. Productivity and product quality maintenance and improvement is a challenge for process engineers. Our paper aims at using machine learning methods to evaluate the impact of adding new auxiliary materials on the amount of exhaust emissions. Experimental determinations made in similar conditions enabled us to build a database containing information about 121 brick batches. Various models (artificial neural networks and regression algorithms) were designed to make predictions about exhaust emission changes when auxiliary materials are introduced into the manufacture mix. The best models were feed-forward neural networks with two hidden layers, having MSE < 0.01 and r2 > 0.82 and, as regression model, kNN with error < 0.6. Also, an optimization procedure, including the best models, was developed in order to determine the optimal values for the parameters that assure the minimum quantities for the gas emission. The Pareto front obtained in the multi-objective optimization conducted with grid search method allows the user the chose the most convenient values for the dry product mass, clay, ash and organic raw materials which minimize gas emissions with energy potential.


Atmosphere ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 823
Author(s):  
Ting Peng ◽  
Xiefei Zhi ◽  
Yan Ji ◽  
Luying Ji ◽  
Ye Tian

The extended range temperature prediction is of great importance for public health, energy and agriculture. The two machine learning methods, namely, the neural networks and natural gradient boosting (NGBoost), are applied to improve the prediction skills of the 2-m maximum air temperature with lead times of 1–35 days over East Asia based on the Environmental Modeling Center, Global Ensemble Forecast System (EMC-GEFS), under the Subseasonal Experiment (SubX) of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). The ensemble model output statistics (EMOS) method is conducted as the benchmark for comparison. The results show that all the post-processing methods can efficiently reduce the prediction biases and uncertainties, especially in the lead week 1–2. The two machine learning methods outperform EMOS by approximately 0.2 in terms of the continuous ranked probability score (CRPS) overall. The neural networks and NGBoost behave as the best models in more than 90% of the study area over the validation period. In our study, CRPS, which is not a common loss function in machine learning, is introduced to make probabilistic forecasting possible for traditional neural networks. Moreover, we extend the NGBoost model to atmospheric sciences of probabilistic temperature forecasting which obtains satisfying performances.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Miles ◽  
Janette Turner ◽  
Richard Jacques ◽  
Julia Williams ◽  
Suzanne Mason

Abstract Background The primary objective of this review is to assess the accuracy of machine learning methods in their application of triaging the acuity of patients presenting in the Emergency Care System (ECS). The population are patients that have contacted the ambulance service or turned up at the Emergency Department. The index test is a machine-learning algorithm that aims to stratify the acuity of incoming patients at initial triage. This is in comparison to either an existing decision support tool, clinical opinion or in the absence of these, no comparator. The outcome of this review is the calibration, discrimination and classification statistics. Methods Only derivation studies (with or without internal validation) were included. MEDLINE, CINAHL, PubMed and the grey literature were searched on the 14th December 2019. Risk of bias was assessed using the PROBAST tool and data was extracted using the CHARMS checklist. Discrimination (C-statistic) was a commonly reported model performance measure and therefore these statistics were represented as a range within each machine learning method. The majority of studies had poorly reported outcomes and thus a narrative synthesis of results was performed. Results There was a total of 92 models (from 25 studies) included in the review. There were two main triage outcomes: hospitalisation (56 models), and critical care need (25 models). For hospitalisation, neural networks and tree-based methods both had a median C-statistic of 0.81 (IQR 0.80-0.84, 0.79-0.82). Logistic regression had a median C-statistic of 0.80 (0.74-0.83). For critical care need, neural networks had a median C-statistic of 0.89 (0.86-0.91), tree based 0.85 (0.84-0.88), and logistic regression 0.83 (0.79-0.84). Conclusions Machine-learning methods appear accurate in triaging undifferentiated patients entering the Emergency Care System. There was no clear benefit of using one technique over another; however, models derived by logistic regression were more transparent in reporting model performance. Future studies should adhere to reporting guidelines and use these at the protocol design stage. Registration and funding This systematic review is registered on the International prospective register of systematic reviews (PROSPERO) and can be accessed online at the following URL: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.php?ID=CRD42020168696 This study was funded by the NIHR as part of a Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship.


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