Transient bubble remediation in coriolis flowmeters
CA 2344830 C · Owner: Dutton, Robert E. · Inventors: Dutton, Robert E.
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A Coriolis flowmeter (5) is operable as a vibrating tube densitometer where a flow tube (103A-103B) is driven to vibrate at a fundamental frequency from which density of the material flowing through the flow tube (103A-103B) may be calculated. The drive gain is monitored as an indicator of multiphase flow including gas and liquid components where a substantial increase in drive gain indicates gas damping of the flowtube vibrations due to a transient bubble entering the flowtube. The gas damping effects of the transient bubble and the correspondingly reduced density readings are remediated by the use of historical density measurements corresponding to periods of flow when no …
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- Filed September 9, 1999 and granted December 2, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 9, 2019.
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