Study on Optical Fiber Gas-Holdup Meter Signal Denoising Using Improved Threshold Wavelet Transform

Abstract

The optical fiber probe gas-holdup meter is a new logging tool, which can be used to measure the gas-holdup of oil-gas-water three-phase flow during production logging. In this paper, the wavelet transform is used to denoise the measured gas-holdup signal of the optical fiber probe. For the wavelet transform threshold de-noising method, the existing hard and soft threshold functions have certain defects. So we propose a wavelet transform denoising method with an improved threshold function, and use this method to denoise the measured gas-holdup signal of the optical fiber probe. The signal-to-noise ratio, root mean square error, smoothness, and correlation coefficient are used as the evaluation indexes of signal denoising effect. The improved threshold function is between the hard threshold function and the soft threshold function. It has the advantages of both hard and soft threshold functions, can effectively overcome the discontinuity of the hard threshold function and the constant deviation of the soft threshold function, and improves the denoising efficiency of the gas-holdup signal. The proposed method is applied to the synthetic data and the real gas-holdup signal of the optical fiber probe respectively. Compared with the traditional soft and hard threshold functions, the experiment results show that the improved threshold wavelet denoising method is feasible. And it is effective in the gas-holdup signal denoising, improving the signal-to-noise ratio, reducing root mean square error, and increasing the correlation coefficient. The proposed method preserves well the original features of the measured gas-holdup signal, which provides a reference for the signal processing and dynamic monitoring analysis of the subsequent oil-well downhole development.

Keywords

• Improved threshold function
• wavelet threshold
• optical fiber gas-holdup meter
• denoising
• gas-holdup