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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert E. Dutton, Louisville, CO (US);
Chad Steele, Denver, CO (US);
Assignee:
Micro Motion, Inc., Boulder, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F 1/74 ; G01F 1/508 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F 1/74 ; G01F 1/508 ;
Abstract
An automatic well test system (,) utilizes a two phase vortex separator,connected to a pair of Coriolis flowmeters (,) to measure volumetric flow rates in three phase flow. Measurements are performed according to a process (P,) including an iterative convergence technique. Measurements are enhanced by the use of real time density and water-cut measurements from a water-cut meter (,) and a water density meter.