Sand issues with turbine liquid meters (Nuflo)

[engr2GW]

Hello,
I use turbine meter for oil and water legs on a 3 phase separator for shale oil and gas production. the sand sometimes messes with the turbine meters and stops it from working. sometimes, operators will tap on the meter with an instrument and it start working again.
apart from dealing with the obvious (sand), are there other recommendations for the same meter (Nuflo turbine meters) or alternative meters that could help with this kind of behavior?

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[LittleInch]

Anything with moving parts in liquid with entrained sand won't work very long or just give bad data.

Correolis meters work quite well in this duty. I've used them before, but they do need a bit of a margin over vapour pressure to work effectively. Vortex meters the same and may suffer erosion in sand duty.

Mag flow might work for the water phase or UT meters are pretty good if you can get it bubble free and some straight lengths.



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