This paper looks into the results of an experimental study concerned with the phase distributions of gas-liquid multiphase flows experienced in a vertical riser. Scale experiments were carried out using a mixture of air and silicone oil in a 6 m long riser pipe with an internal diameter pipe of 67 mm. A series of pipe flow experiments were performed for a range of injected air superficial velocities over the range 0.05 to 4.73 m/s, whilst the liquid superficial velocities ranged from 0.05 to 0.38 m/s. Measurements of cross-sectional void fraction and radial time averaged void fraction across a pipe section located 4.92 m from the pipe flow injection were obtained using a capacitance wire mesh sensor (WMS). The data were recorded at a frequency of 1000 Hz over an interval of 60 seconds. For the range of flow conditions studied, the average void fraction was observed to vary between 0.1 and 0.8. An analysis of the data collected concluded that the observed void fraction was strongly affected by the gas superficial velocity, whereby the higher the gas superficial velocity, the higher was the observed average void fraction. The average void fraction distributions observed were in good agreement with the results obtained by other researchers. The accuracy and performance of void fraction correlations were carried out in terms of percentage error and Root Mean Square (RMS) error. Reasonably
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