A Study on Measurement Uncertainty of a Vortex Flow Meter in Discrete Liquid Phase

Abstract:

The measurement uncertainty of vortex flowmeter was examined when the gas flow measured was injected with liquid. This test was performed in a multiphase flow calibration facility. A vortex flowmeter of 50 mm in diameter was installed in a 100 mm test section. The gas volume flow rate was held in 141m³/h and the liquid was injected into the gas flow. The liquid volume fractions used at the gas volume flow rate were 0.0106%, 0.0213%,0.0355%,0.0496%,0.0638%,0.0780% and 0.0922%. The small amount of liquid in the gas as discrete droplet is called discrete liquid phase. Analysis on the vortex shedding frequency obtained from a frequency spectra showed that the strouhal values changed from 0.305 to 0.385 with the discrete liquid phase increasing and the total uncertainty of vortex flowmeter was from 0.869% to 2.196%. The experimental result can supply experimental basis for the measurement error correction of vortex flowmeter worked in gas flow with discrete liquid phase.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 346)
• Pages: 593-599
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.346.593
• Online since: September 2011
• Authors: Yun Fei Jia, De Ren Kong
• Keywords: Measurement Error, Measurement Uncertainty, Strouhal Value, Vortex Flow Meter Discrete Liquid Phase

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