The HPFA High Pressure Foam Analyzer is the world’s only measuring instrument for simultaneously analyzing the amount and structure of liquid foams under high pressure. The instrument provides various options for investigating foam behavior under the real process conditions of foam-assisted flooding methods in EOR as well as hydraulic fracturing.
HPFA
Analysis of foam behavior under oil reservoir conditions
Description
SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATIONS
Software
| Software type | ADVANCE |
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| Software languages | Chinese (simplified), English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish |
| Software modules | Foam analysis – high pressure (recommended) |
Measurement specifications
| Analyzed foam characteristic | foamability and foam stability foam structure: homogeneity, stability and aging |
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| Results | foam height liquid height total height foam capacity (additional flow sensor needed) maximum foam density expansion rate foam half life time drainage half life time sample temperature gas temperature pressure mean bubble area bubble count per mm² standard deviation of mean bubble area bubble size distribution bubble count half life Sauter mean radius final foam structure |
Instrument dimensions
| Footprint | 1100 mm × 640 mm (W × D) |
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| Height | 1070 mm |
| Weight (without accessories) | 190 kg |
Environment
| Operating temperature | 10 to 40 °C |
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| Humidity | without condensation |
Interfaces
| PC | min. 1 × USB 3.0, recommended 2 × USB 3.0 and 1 × USB 2.0 |
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Power supply
| Voltage | 100 to 240 V |
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| Power consumption | 30 W |
| Frequency | 50 to 60 Hz |
Temperature control
| Type of temperature control | electrical |
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| Range of temperature control | room temperature up to 120 °C |
Accessories
| Filter plates for sparging | Diameter: 30 mm |
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| Filter plate porosities | G2: nominal maximum pore size: 40 to 100 μm (recommended) G3: nominal maximum pore size: 16 to 40 μm G4: nominal maximum pore size: 10 to 16 μm |
| Material of columns and frits | borosilicate glass (norm: ISO 4793) |
| Material of sealings | PTFE with glass fibers (inner) and graphite (outer) for the windows HNBR for the filter plates |
Mini dosing system
| Dosing | manual |
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| Location | in the high-pressure cell (top/middle/bottom) |
| Temperature | maximum 180 °C |
Temperature sensor
| Sensor | 1 thermocouple |
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| Location | in the high-pressure cell (top/middle/bottom) |
Power supply for heating
| Voltage | 115 to 230 V |
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| Power consumption | 1880 W |
| Frequency | 50 to 60 Hz |
Illumination
| Types | LED |
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| Wave length, dominant (height detection) | 469 nm (blue) |
| Wave length, dominant (structure detection) | 633 nm (red) |
Pressure measurement
| Maximum pressure | 350 bar (5000 psi) (with additional external syringe pump) |
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Structure camera
| Performance | 2 fps at 1280 × 1024 px |
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| Mean field of view | 25 × 13 mm² |
| Diameter of minimum detectable bubble | 150 μm |
| Focus | manual |
Height camera
| Performance | 5 fps at 1280 × 1024 px |
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| Spatial resolution | 200 dpi | 0.12 mm/px |
| Mean field of view | 85 × 5.2 mm² |
| Focus | manual |
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