ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION OF MINIMUM FLOW RATE FOR THE CONTINUOUS REMOVAL OF LIQUIDS FROM GAS WELLS

Abstract

From an analysis of two models-in one, the movement observed is of a liquid film on the wall of a tubular conduit where the liquid is moved upward by interfacial shear, and in the other, it is of the entrained liquid drops in a vertically upward flowing gas stream, it is evident that the minimum condition required to unload a gas well is that which will move the largest liquid drops that can exist in a gas stream.