TELE-METROLOGY AND ADVANCED ULTRASONIC FLOW METERING |
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| Pedro I. Espina, T. T. Yeh, Peter I. Rothfleisch, Stephen A. Osella |
- Abstract:
- In an effort to expand the range of the national standards, NIST is experimenting with tele-metrology concepts to annex flow calibration facilities throughout the U.S. An essential part of this approach is the use of sensors capable of assessing the dynamic properties of the flow-testing environment. Specifically, we advocate the use of an advanced ultrasonic flow meter (AUFM) to provide a detailed description of the flow field entering the flow meter being calibrated. The AUFM couples multi-path ultrasonic sensing capabilities with pattern recognition software to provide likely flow fields and their probability of existence. The knowledge encoded in the pattern recognition software is derived from training exercises that use computational fluid dynamic and experimental results to teach a flow field recognizer (FFR) via learning algorithms. The performance of the FFR is proportional to the number and variety of example flow fields used during training, and to the flow detection features used for classification. Although the purpose of this research is to reduce the uncertainty of flow calibration devices, the use of AUFM could prove beneficial in field applications where installation effects can lead to gross errors when ultrasonic signals are evaluated using conventional integration schemes.
- Keywords:
- tele-calibration, advanced ultrasonic flow meter, artificial intelligence
- Download:
- IMEKO-TC9-2000-045.pdf
- DOI:
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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