FLARE METER MONITORING METHOD, and FLARE METER HIGH VELOCITY EXTENDER

摘要

This is about an innovation breakthru for flare metering, and its pilot test at Snore TLP. Yet there are no new equipment in this pilot test. Anywhere where there is a flare installed, the necessary basic equipment is already in place. rnAs long as there has been platforms producing in the North Sea, production personell have looked to the flare for information when our prudent flare meters have failed. Windows in the control room have been equipped with scales per the flare flame size. Others have looked for restrictions in the flare line that could be used for flare meter checking, and some have been lucky to find a 90 degree elbow that could be used for the purpose, mainly at higher flowrates. rnAt the Snorre TLP startup after the 2002 authumn shutdown , the flare flowrates were very high – far more than the fiscal flare meter could handle. At this time the Snorre TLP production engineer Atle Alvestad and the NPD representative Steinar Fosse looked at the flare tip, and saw a potential flow meter.