MEASURING DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE DENSITY, THE MASS FLOW RATE AND/OR THE VISCOSITY OF A FLOWABLE MEDIUM, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20250093189A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-20

    申请号:US18920287

    申请日:2024-10-18

    Abstract: A measuring device for determining density, mass flow rate and/or viscosity of a flowable medium includes: an oscillator including at least one oscillatable measuring tube for conveying the medium, and having at least one oscillatory mode, whose eigenfrequency depends on density of the medium; an exciter for exciting the oscillatory mode; at least one oscillation sensor for registering oscillations of the oscillator; and an operating-evaluating circuit, which is adapted to supply the exciter with an excitation signal, to register signals of the oscillation sensor, based on the signals of the oscillation sensor to ascertain current values of the eigenfrequency of the oscillator as well as variations of the eigenfrequency, and to determine a value characterizing density variations of the medium, wherein the value depends on a function, which is proportional to the variation of the eigenfrequency and has an eigenfrequency dependent normalization.

    METHOD FOR DETERMINING A CHARACTERISTIC PASSAGE TIME OF A COMPONENT OF A HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM IN A VIBRATING MEASURING TUBE OF A CORIOLIS MASS FLOW METER

    公开(公告)号:US20250067586A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-27

    申请号:US18720940

    申请日:2022-12-02

    Abstract: The method determines a characteristic passage time of a component of a flowing medium in a vibrating measuring tube of a Coriolis mass flow meter. The flow meter has the measuring tube, an exciter for exciting a bending vibration mode of the measuring tube, and a vibration sensor for sensing the measuring tube vibrations. The component is present inhomogenously in the medium and has a component density which deviates from an average density of the medium. The method includes feeding an excitation signal to the exciter with a natural frequency a bending vibration mode, ascertaining at least one first time profile of a signal amplitude of the first vibration sensor at a natural frequency of an anti-symmetrical bending vibration mode, and ascertaining the characteristic passage time on the basis of the first time profile of the signal amplitude at the natural frequency of the anti-symmetrical bending vibration mode.

    METHOD FOR OPERATING A CORIOLIS MEASUREMENT DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20240344870A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-17

    申请号:US18294811

    申请日:2022-07-22

    CPC classification number: G01F1/8436 G01F1/8422 G01F1/8427 G01F1/8459 G01N9/32

    Abstract: A method for operating a Coriolis measurement device comprises: recording the measured voltages from the sensors and creating an asymmetric sequence of values using the amplitudes of the measured voltages for the purpose of diagnosing the Coriolis measurement device; checking whether the asymmetric sequence of values satisfies at least one invalidity criterion; and creating a stabilized asymmetric sequence of values on the basis of the asymmetric sequence of values by replacing asymmetric measured values with substitute values. While an invalidity criterion is satisfied a last valid measured value of the asymmetric sequence of values is used as the current value of the stabilized asymmetric sequence of values, or the stabilized asymmetric sequence of values is set to a predetermined value, a first invalidity criterion being based on a scattering parameter of the asymmetric value exceeding a first limit value.

    Method for monitoring a flow of a medium by means of a Coriolis mass flowmeter and a differential pressure measurement device

    公开(公告)号:US12044559B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-23

    申请号:US17758082

    申请日:2020-12-01

    CPC classification number: G01F1/34 G01F1/8477

    Abstract: A method for monitoring flow of a medium by means of a pressure difference measuring device and a Coriolis mass flowmeter having two oscillators, which comprise, in each case, a bent measuring tube pair, which are arranged on top of one another and connected for parallel flow between the two pressure measuring points of the pressure difference measuring device, comprising steps as follows: Registering a pressure difference between the first pressure measuring point and the second pressure measuring point; registering a first density measured value based on at least a first oscillation frequency of the first oscillator; registering a second density measured value based on at least a second oscillation frequency of the second oscillator; ascertaining a flow measured value based on the pressure difference, when a difference between the first density measured value and the second density measured value is less than a density difference limit value.

    DENSITY METER HAVING AT LEAST ONE MEASURING TUBE, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING A DENSITY METER OF THIS TYPE

    公开(公告)号:US20240210295A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-27

    申请号:US18555387

    申请日:2021-03-21

    CPC classification number: G01N9/002 G01N2009/006

    Abstract: A method for operating a density meter that includes at least one oscillating measuring tube for conducting a medium, an exciter disposed on the measuring tube for exciting oscillation modes of the at least one measuring tube, and a support body, wherein the measuring tube has inlet-side and outlet-side end portions that are connected to the support body, includes: exciting at least three oscillation modes of the measuring tube; determining eigenfrequency measurement values of the at least three oscillation modes; determining a density measurement value of the medium, taking into consideration a gas load that may be present; and determining a characteristic property of the at least one measuring tube on the basis of the eigenfrequencies of the three oscillation modes.

    Measurement pickup for determining the mass flow rate of a liquid

    公开(公告)号:US11788875B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-17

    申请号:US16629071

    申请日:2018-06-19

    CPC classification number: G01F1/8477 G01F1/8422 G01F1/8427 G01F1/8436

    Abstract: Disclosed is a measurement pickup for determining the mass flow rate of a liquid comprising: at least one measurement tube for carrying the liquid having an inlet-side end section and an outlet-side end section; a support body on which the measurement tube is mounted an exciter for exciting vibrations of the measurement tube; at least one vibration sensor for detecting vibrations of the measurement tube; an operating and evaluation circuit for driving the exciter, for receiving the signals of the vibration sensor, and for ascertaining a measured value representing the mass flow rate. The operating and evaluation circuit comprises an adaptive low-pass filter for filtering the sequence of measured values representing the mass flow rate, wherein the low-pass filter has at least one filter parameter dependent on at least one adaptive controlled variable that, for its part, is dependent on the gas content of the test medium.

    METHOD FOR MONITORING A CORIOLIS MASS FLOW METER

    公开(公告)号:US20230184573A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-15

    申请号:US17996800

    申请日:2021-03-23

    CPC classification number: G01F1/8436

    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method used to monitor a Coriolis mass flow meter, which has an oscillator with at least one measurement tube, the method including: exciting the oscillator so as to cause flexural vibrations of a first antisymmetric vibration mode by an excitation signal at a resonance frequency of the first antisymmetric vibration mode; sensing a vibration amplitude of the first antisymmetric vibration mode at the resonance frequency of the first antisymmetric vibration mode; sensing a time constant of the decaying free vibrations of the first antisymmetric vibration mode; and determining a modal elastic property of the oscillator with respect to the first antisymmetric vibration mode on the basis of the vibration amplitude of the first antisymmetric vibration mode, the excitation signal, and the time constant.

    Flow measuring system having transducer temperatures that deviate from measuring point temperatures

    公开(公告)号:US11573111B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-07

    申请号:US16315834

    申请日:2017-06-26

    Abstract: The measuring system includes a transducer apparatus with two tubes. Each tube is adapted to be flowed through by a fluid from an inlet end toward an outlet end and to be caused to vibrate. An electromechanical exciter mechanism excites and maintains mechanical oscillations of each of the tubes, and a sensor arrangement registers mechanical oscillations of at least one of the tubes. The transducer apparatus includes two temperature sensors each being mechanically and thermally conductively coupled with a wall of the tube, wherein each of the temperature sensors registers a measuring point temperature, and converts such into a temperature measurement signal temperature. A measuring and operating electronics (ME) generates a transducer temperature measured value representing a transducer apparatus temperature so that a magnitude of the transducer temperature measured value is greater than a magnitude of the measuring point temperature and less than a magnitude of the measuring point temperature.

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