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Errors Due to Pulsation in Orifice Meters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

J. Grimson  and
N. Hay
J. Grimson
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham
N. Hay
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nottingham
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At the present time, the only established method of metering a pulsating fluid flow involves the installation of damping devices in the system between the source of pulsation and the flow meter to ensure that the flow through the meter is essentially steady. Such devices may comprise a combination of frictional and volumetric damping and the method by which the required degree of damping is determined makes use of the Hodgson criterion. In many systems, it is undesirable (or, at least, inconvenient) to have to incorporate this damping and, therefore, the more direct approach, involving the metering of flow which is actually pulsating, is of considerable practical interest.

In the present note, the various factors affecting the metering errors in pulsating flow are discussed in relation to the results of an experimental investigation into the pulsating flow of air through a number of standard orifice configurations.

Type
Technical Notes
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 75 , Issue 724 , April 1971 , pp. 284 - 287
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1971 

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