QUANTIFIED COMPARISON OF THE EFFICIENCY OF NEW FLOW CONDITIONERS

B. Mickan, R. Kramer, G. Wendt, D. Dopheide
Abstract:
The paper reports about the profile measurement downstream of several perforated plates and their evaluation. Five different designs of perforated plates were investigated, which were: modified Zanker, Mitsubishi, two designs by company NOVA and a design by Laws.
Every flow conditioner were tested in three different pipe configurations with different levels of axial profile deformation and swirl. The report focuses on development of the axial velocity profile. The evaluation was done not only by comparing the velocity profiles but also with respect to the error shift of turbine meters.
Keywords:
flow conditioner, axial profile, installation effect, LDA measurement, error shift, turbine meter
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Event details
IMEKO TC:
TC9
Event name:
FLOMEKO 2000
Title:
10th Conference on Flow Measurement
Place:
Salvador, Bahia, BRAZIL
Time:
04 June 2000 - 08 June 2000