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Calibration of prover tanks making use of a Coriolis mass flowmeter as the master meter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2012

F.M. Erik Smits  and
J.C. Jos Rath
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Abstract

Calibration of volumetric proving tanks can be done using different methods. For thecalibration of large proving tanks the master meter method can be used as a goodalternative to the volumetric transfer method or the gravimetric method. When the mastermeter method is used in most cases a positive displacement meter is used. A better optionis to make use a Coriolis mass flow meter as the master meter. Test data is presented of acalibration of a proving tank with a nominal volume of 500 L. Small repeatability figurescan be obtained of consecutive calibration runs with a Coriolis mass flow meter. Also thelinearity of the meter factor curve of the Coriolis mass flow meter makes this a betteroption for the master meter method.

Keywords

Calibrationproving tanksCoriolis mass flow meter
Type
Research Article
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International Journal of Metrology and Quality Engineering , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , 2012 , pp. 79 - 84
Copyright
© EDP Sciences 2012

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