Research on a Portable Gel Physical Properties Analyzer

Abstract

Viscosity is an important physical property of gels widely used in the petroleum industry. In this paper, a non-contact and efficient measurement method is proposed. The motion process of the gel in the capillary is captured by a high-speed camera, and the gel image is obtained. Using the advantages of GPU in parallel computing, a corresponding image processing method is proposed. The physical viscosity measurement of four actual batches of gels shows that the method proposed in this paper can accurately obtain the actual physical properties, and the execution time of the method in this paper is significantly faster than the CPU serial method, which ensures the accuracy of the calculation of the physical properties of the analyzer. At the same time, the real-time performance of the calculation is improved.