I have two gas tanks of nitrogen and oxygen. Mixture of gases is created and used in the system of interest.
Let's say I want to create an atmospheric conditions in my system, mass ratio of oxygen to nitrogen is 0.3 and total pressure of 1 bar (oxygen partial pressure 0.21 bar). Therefore, mass...
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I have an in-house designed flow meter with roughly the configuration in the figure. In the setup, a restriction is placed in the flow stream (the rows of horizontal lines in the figure). Pressure measurements upstream and downstream of the restriction, P1 and P2, respectively are...
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I'm interested in building a small non-invasive battery powered device that wraps around a pressured 1/2" pipe for measuring potable water.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_flow_meter
and watching youtube videos, it seems they all use electrodes which contact the liquid...
I'm trying to design a rotameter, a flowmeter consisting of a float in a tube of increasing area (like a cone). I know the equations equating drag with gravity, but I'm more interested in the equation of the float's velocity over time, just as steady state flow begins (so x(0)=0)
Because the...
I am looking for some device that can emulate someone tapping with a wrench every 20 minutes.
More specifically, I have noticed that in my application, my flowmeters (rotameters) are dropping over time. As a workaround I have been able to tap them with a wrench every 20 to 30 minutes, this...
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I'm conducting an experiment to calculate the mass flow rate of water. Bellow is a copy of the procedure:
1) Weigh the mass in kg of a container
2) Connect a flow meter to a tap (any source) with a pipe and insure the departure pipe goes into a sink
3) Open the tap an increase...
I have an argon piping system. The pressure is set at 50 psi. Assume no pressure drop. I have a flowmeter that is calibrated to run at 25 psi. Basically, I want to know what the "new" scale will be on the flowmeter as a result of the increased pressure (from 25 to 50 psi).
In other words...
I have a pipe with regular diameter connected to a tap, the water comes from public supply, I assume that public supply can vary on pressure and flow rate. How can I guarantee that I allways get the same volumetric flow rate at the end of the pipe? Will a pressure reducer be sufficient?
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I am currently doing leak testing for a piece of equipment. In order to do so I have a flowmeter at the inlet and outlet (of what is essentially a long cylinder) and have air drawn through by a vacuum pump.
Now, the problem is that even with no obvious signs of leaks the two flows...
Can a flow meter whose scale has graduations only 2 units apart (e.g. 90,92,94,96,98,100) have a legitimate advertised repeatablity of 0.5% of the Full Scale?
The scale runs 0 to 100 so that'd mean readings repeatable within 0.5%. When marks itself are 2 units apart how does this make sense...
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I was just wondering if any of you done any similar investigation on the following topic. Basically, i currently doing a research on orifice plate in a pipe. It would be great if you guys know any journals that i can refer to.
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I guess this is something of a fluid dynamics problem.
I'm having some trouble understanding non-backpressure compensated variable orifice flowmeters (NBPCVOF) used with medical gas tanks. Regarding a non-backpressure compensated flowmeter, I'm being told that adding partial...
I've been given a project to improve the design of a turbine used to measure the flow of beer! I've trawled the web and libraries to find previous work in the hope of finding some handy pointers, rules of thumb and simple equations to guide me. However, I've had little joy.
Basic parameters...
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The venturi flowmeter is used to measure the flow rate of water in a solar collector system. The flowmeter is inserted in a pipe with diameter 1.9cm; at the venturi of the flowmeter the diameter is reduced to 0.64cm. The manometer tube contains oil with density 0.82 times...
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We are using a plate orifice to measure water feed to a reboiler; the pipeline size is 1" and the orifice was initially designed for 0-1800 kg/h of water, with a maximum pressure drop of 1000 mm water. As water feed doubles may I simply change...
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For a undergrad design course I'm asked to design and manufacture a device for measuring the peak urine flow rate to indicate possible signs of prostrate cancer. Basically, the allocated budget is too low to use any electronics (transducers and data acquisition), which was my initial...
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I'm having a lot of trouble trying to set up a process for calibrating turbine flowmeters for use in fuel rigs.
Basically, I have a calibrated "master" flowmeter in series with the uncalibrated turbine flowmeter. I need a process that will give me the line of best fit across the...
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I'm having a lot of trouble trying to set up a process for calibrating turbine flowmeters for use in fuel rigs.
Basically, I have a calibrated "master" flowmeter in series with the uncalibrated turbine flowmeter. I need a process that will give me the line of best fit across the...
An electromagnetic flowmeter is used to measure blood flow rates during surgery. Blood containing Na+ ions flows due south through an artery with a diameter of 0.40 cm. The artery is in a downward magnetic field of 0.25 T and develops a Hall voltage of 0.35 mV across its diameter. (a) What is...
I think my situation below can only be explained by a physicist, so I hope I came to the right place!
On our hydraulic test bench we use a glass tube, float type flowmeter (also called a rotameter?); fluid is hydraulic fluid and non-flammable; the float is anodized aluminum. We occasionally...