Research on Countermeasures of Internal fouling in Turbine Flowmeter

Chuanbo Zheng, Lei Zhou, Can Li, Wei Han, Xing Qian

Abstract

Turbine flowmeters are widely used to measure volume flow and total volume of low viscosity gas in closed pipelines due to their advantages of high precision, good repeatability and insensitivity to peak value, especially in natural gas distribution stations and metering institutions are more commonly used. However,there are rotating parts inside them, which are easily affected by factors such as dust, grease, and impurities. Based on flowmeter verification test data and years of experience in standard device management, this paper conducts research from four aspects of fouling source control, fouling blocking, fouling cleaning and fouling prevention, discusses the feasibility scheme to solve the internal fouling problem of turbine flowmeters and forms a complete set of fouling control, treatment, blocking and prevention methods.

Keywords

Metrology; Natural gas metering; Turbine flowmeter

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DOI

10.21014/tc9-2022.123

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TC9 - Flow Measurement

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