Quantitative Measurement System of Liquid Products in Sealed Tank

Abstract:

Many industries apply pressure tanks for the storage of various types of liquids [1]. It can be toxic, chemically active liquids or food products. Storage conditions of these liquids can have a wide range of pressures and temperatures; therefore it is preferable to control the liquids levels from the outside of the tank. The most optimal solution in this case is the ultrasonic pulse time method [2-6], which is also widely used in robotics [7], fishing, shipping [8-9], archeology [10-11], non-destructive testing [12-17] and manometric method [18].

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 970)
• Pages: 63-74
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.970.63
• Online since: September 2019
• Authors: Yuliya Shulgina*, Maria A. Kostina, P.V. Sorokin, Marina Polonskaya, O.A. Kozhemyak, Andrey Soldatov
• Keywords: Accuracy of Measurement, Echo Signal, Envelope, Manometric Channel, Polynomial of the Second Degree, Ultrasonic Channel

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