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Furthermore, the variation of salinity changes the water conductivity, which brings more difficulties to multiphase flow measurement. In this study, a methodology for flow measurement using the conductance method in gas-liquid two-phase flow with salinity change is proposed. The methodology includes the suitable conductivity detection method, the strategy of using combined sensors, and the measurement models of flow parameters. A suitable conductivity detection method that can guarantee that the sensor output is linearly proportional to the conductivity is proposed. This conductivity detection method can ensure that the sensors have a high and constant resolution in the conductivity variation caused by water holdup under the conditions of water conductivity change. Afterward, a combined sensor system consisting of a water holdup sensor, velocity sensor, and water conductivity sensor is designed and experimentally evaluated in gas-water two-phase flow in a 20 mm inner diameter pipe. Considering the non-uniform phase distribution, severe slippage effect between phases, different flow structures, and the variation of salinity, a new water holdup measurement model and flow velocity measurement models are established to achieve salinity independent water holdup measurement and flow velocity measurement for the first time.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20185263","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,15]],"date-time":"2020-09-15T10:24:09Z","timestamp":1600165449000},"page":"5263","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Salinity Independent Flow Measurement of Vertical Upward Gas-Liquid Flows in a Small Pipe Using Conductance Method"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Dayang","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China"},{"name":"College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5445-5092","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ningde","family":"Jin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5154-9883","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lusheng","family":"Zhai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yingyu","family":"Ren","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"595","DOI":"10.1016\/S0969-8043(00)00232-3","article-title":"Salinity independent measurement of gas volume fraction in oil\/gas\/water pipe flows","volume":"53","author":"Johansen","year":"2000","journal-title":"Appl. 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