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However, they are relatively susceptible to the water conductivity and temperature, and the algorithms for addressing these problems are still rare in the literature. In this paper, a microwave transmission sensor that can measure the water cut under varying salinity conditions is proposed, and the algorithm for solving the water cut and salinity simultaneously with the measured amplitude and phase is described in detail. Experiments under different water cut and salinity conditions are conducted, and the results are used to verify the model and algorithm. Finally, a simplified and fast method for uncertainty analysis is proposed and applied to the iteration algorithm under test conditions. It can be concluded that accuracy higher than 95% in the water cut measurements can be expected under the 0~100% water cut range, and an error of about 10% in the water conductivity is achievable under water-continuous flow conditions. The uncertainty analysis shows that the calculated water cut and salinity results are negatively correlated, and the water salinity uncertainty tends to be larger than the water cut uncertainty. When the water salinity is high, the water cut uncertainty tends to be high whereas the water salinity uncertainty tends to be low.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22249746","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,13]],"date-time":"2022-12-13T03:32:32Z","timestamp":1670902352000},"page":"9746","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Application of Microwave Transmission Sensors for Water Cut Metering under Varying Salinity Conditions: Device, Algorithm and Uncertainty Analysis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Kai","family":"Zuo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Safety and Ocean Engineering, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, Beijing 102249, China"},{"name":"CNOOC EnerTech-Drilling & Production Co., Tianjin 300452, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yi","family":"Hong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Safety and Ocean Engineering, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, Beijing 102249, China"},{"name":"CNOOC Research Institute Co., Ltd., Beijing 100010, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Haitao","family":"Qi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CNOOC EnerTech-Drilling & Production Co., Tianjin 300452, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yi","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Baolong","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CNOOC EnerTech-Drilling & Production Co., Tianjin 300452, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"012003","DOI":"10.1088\/0957-0233\/24\/1\/012003","article-title":"Three-phase flow measurement in the petroleum industry","volume":"24","author":"Thorn","year":"2012","journal-title":"Meas. 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