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This paper presents a novel instrumentation system based on the laser attenuation technique for the gas void fraction measurement of the two-phase CO2 flow. The system includes an infrared laser source and a photodiode sensor array. Experiments were conducted on the horizontal and vertical test sections. Two Coriolis mass flowmeters are respectively installed on the single-phase pipelines to obtain the reference gas void fraction. The experimental results obtained show that the proposed method is effective. In the horizontal test section, the relative errors of the stratified flow are within \u00b18.3%, while those of the bubble flow are within \u00b110.6%. In the vertical test section, the proposed method performs slightly less well, with relative errors under \u00b112.2%. The obtained results show that the measurement system is capable of providing an accurate measurement of the gas void fraction of the two-phase CO2 flow and a useful reference for other industrial applications.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19143178","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,19]],"date-time":"2019-07-19T03:14:41Z","timestamp":1563506081000},"page":"3178","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Gas Void Fraction Measurement of Gas-Liquid Two-Phase CO2 Flow Using Laser Attenuation Technique"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0757-6814","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Haochi","family":"Wu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Control and Computer Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China"}]},{"given":"Quansheng","family":"Duan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Control and Computer Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"426","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rser.2014.07.093","article-title":"An Overview of Current Status of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Technologies","volume":"39","author":"Leung","year":"2014","journal-title":"Renew. 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