Beginning with chapters on the need for flow measurement, a brief history of the field, and physical properties of fluids, the text takes readers through basics such as the fundamentals of flow measurement, calibration, and installation and maintenance of flowmeters. Material in these early chapters emphasizes the importance of accuracy in measurements and ways of ensuring accuracy and avoiding equipment damage through correct forecast of operating conditions, flowmeter selection, installation, calibration, and maintenance. Fundamental considerations such as mixed-phase flow, piping effects, and flow conditioning are examined at length. The problem of attaining a meaningful flow signal through linearization, compensation, and totalization is also discussed.
The book dedicates a whole chapter to each major technology including differential pressure flowmeters, critical flowmeters, laminar flow elements, magnetic flowmeters, mass flowmeters, open channel flow measurement, oscillatory flowmeters, positive displacement flowmeters, target flowmeters, thermal mass flowmeters and controllers, tracer dilution measurement, turbine flowmeters, ultrasonic flowmeters, variable area flowmeters, insertion flow measurement, custody transfer measurement, and sanitary flowmeters. An additional six chapters provide in-depth reference material on other related aspects of flow measurement that include flowmeter selection, uncertainty in flow measurement, laboratory primary standards, flow measurement proficiency testing, industry standards, and flowmeter specifications.
This resource is an essential reference for control systems engineers, instrument designers, instrumentation technicians, calibration specialists, maintenance managers, technical sales representatives, training instructors, researchers, and anyone else who deals with flow measurement technology.
