Abstract:
In order to place a medium flowing through a magneto-inductive flow measuring device at a reference potential, a grounding gasket is arranged, in each case, between flared end regions of the measuring tube, or measuring tube flanges secured on the measuring tube, and pipeline flanges connected with the pipeline. The grounding gasket comprises a conductive support material. The support material is provided with an electrically conductive, chemically resistant, plastics coating, at least in regions in contact in the installed state with the medium, the flared end regions, or the measuring tube flanges, as the case may be, and the pipeline flanges.
Abstract:
Electrode for a magneto-inductive flow measuring device for determining volume flow of an electrically conductive medium flowing through a measuring tube. The measuring tube, or at least the portion of it which comes in contact with the medium, is not electrically conductive; wherein the electrode exhibits an electrode shaft and an electrode head. The electrode head contacts the medium, and the electrode shaft exhibits frustoconically shaped sealing lips arranged one after the other in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the electrode. The electrode shaft is pressed into a bore in the wall of the measuring tube. The maximum diameter of the sealing lip nearest the electrode head is greater than the diameter of the bore, and, at least in a part of the electrode shaft, the maximum diameter of any following sealing lip is greater than the maximum diameter of the preceding sealing lip.
Abstract:
This vortex flow sensor is to be designed either as vortex sensor with a capacitive vortex sensing element (3, 3') either arranged in the hole of a bluff body (4) or inserted into a wall opening of a measuring tube (2, 2') downstream of the bluff body. Both vortex sensing elements being of largely identical construction and being capable of being produced as an independent component in the manner of a module. The wall sensor (3) and the bluff body sensor (3') has a diaphragm (33, 33') sealing off the hole and the wall opening. A flexurally stiff thin sensor vane (31) or sensor sleeve (51) and a sleeve-shaped electrode arrangement (34, 34') with at least one electrode (341, 341') are attached to the diaphragm on opposite sides. A housing cap (32, 32') surrounds the electrode arrangement and the diaphragm, is fixed on the measuring tube and contains a second electrode arrangement (35, 35') with at least one counter-electrode (351, 352; 351', 352'). The mass of the sensor sleeve is made equal to the mass of the electrode arrangement (34, 34'). The geometrical moment of inertia of the sensor sleeve is made equal to that of the electrode arrangement (34, 34'). The housing cap is dimensioned to be of sufficient flexural stiffness to ensure that it does not bend in the case of a maximum permissible acceleration acting on the measuring tube.
Abstract:
A measuring transducer of a flow measuring device for measuring the flow of a medium through an existing pipeline system, wherein, in a cost-favorable manner, an equalization of potential between medium and measuring transducer is effected. The measuring transducer includes a measuring transducer housing, a measuring tube integrated in the measuring transducer, two process connections of an insulating material, via which the measuring tube is connectable to the pipeline system, and, placed in one of the process connections, at least one electrode, which is exposed in an inner space of the process connection, through which medium flows during operation. The electrode is connected with the measuring transducer housing via an electrically conductive connection.
Abstract:
The piezoelectric vortex sensing element (3, 3′, 3″, 3+) of this vortex flow sensor (1) can be assembled from individual components in a simple manner; if its piezoelectric element (34, 34′, 34″, 34*, 34+, 34++) should be faulty, it can be easily replaced. Also, the vortex sensing element can be made largely insensitive to vibrations acting from outside. The vortex flow sensor (1) serves to measure the flow velocity and/or the volumetric flow rate of a fluid flowing through a measuring tube (2). A bluff body (4) generating Kármán vortices is disposed along a diameter of the measuring tube and fixed to the measuring tube at at least one fixing point (41). The vortex sensing element responds to vortex-induced pressure fluctuations and either is installed in a wall (22) of the measuring tube down-stream of the bluff body in a tight manner or extends into a main bore (46) extending through the measuring tube into the bluff body. A diaphragm (33, 33″, 33+) covers the main bore (46) or the wall bore (22). At the surface (331) of the diaphragm facing toward the fluid, a sensor vane (31, 31″, 31+) or a sensor sleeve (31′, 31*) is fixed. The piezoelectric element is mechanically coupled to the surface (332) of the diaphragm remote from the fluid.
Abstract:
An expansion bolt assembly for use in boreholes with an annular undercut adjacent the base of the boreholes includes an axially elongated anchor bolt, a support sleeve laterally enclosing the anchor bolt with annular segments formed on the support sleeve, and an expansion sleeve to be inserted between the anchor bolt and the support sleeve. The annular segments are displaced radially outwardly by the expansion sleeve into the undercut in the borehole. The annular segments extend radially outwardly from the outside surface of the support sleeve. During the expansion procedure the outer surface of the support sleeve is pressed against the surface of the borehole.
Abstract:
A process for fabricating an electromagnetic flow meter by encapsulating an electrode with a liquefied plastic. The electrode is fabricated out of an electrically conducting material and with at least a first circumferential indentation that runs orthogonal to the longitudinal expansion of the electrode. The electrode is positioned in a tool and encapsulated with a liquefied plastic, at least in sections, wherein the first indentation is encapsulated, at least in sections, with liquefied plastic. Also, an electromagnetic flow meter for measuring the volumetric flow or mass flow of a medium in a pipe, with a measurement tube, through which the medium flows in the direction of the longitudinal axis, and with a magnetic system that is so embodied as to produce a magnetic field that passes through the measurement tube and runs essentially orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the measurement tube, and with at least one measurement electrode that couples to the medium, which is arranged essentially orthogonal to the region of the magnetic field in a bore hole in the wall of the measurement tube.
Abstract:
A magneto-inductive flow measuring device having a measuring transducer, which includes a measuring tube a magnet system for producing a magnetic field, and at least one electrode inserted into a bore of the measuring tube for registering an electrical voltage. A securement device is provided, which serves for securing the electrode on the measuring tube. The securement device is at least partially composed of plastic, and is connected with the measuring tube by a plastics welding technology.
Abstract:
A process for fabricating an electromagnetic flow meter by encapsulating an electrode with a liquefied plastic. The electrode is fabricated out of an electrically conducting material and with at least a first circumferential indentation that runs orthogonal to the longitudinal expansion of the electrode. The electrode is positioned in a tool and encapsulated with a liquefied plastic, at least in sections, wherein the first indentation is encapsulated, at least in sections, with liquefied plastic. Also, an electromagnetic flow meter for measuring the volumetric flow or mass flow of a medium in a pipe, with a measurement tube, through which the medium flows in the direction of the longitudinal axis, and with a magnetic system that is so embodied as to produce a magnetic field that passes through the measurement tube and runs essentially orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the measurement tube, and with at least one measurement electrode that couples to the medium, which is arranged essentially orthogonal to the region of the magnetic field in a bore hole in the wall of the measurement tube.
Abstract:
An electrode for a magneto-inductive flow measuring device for determining volume flow of an electricity conductive medium flowing through a measuring tube. The measuring tube, or at least a portion of it which comes in contact with the medium, is not electrically conductive; wherein the electrode exhibits an electrode shaft and an electrode head. The electrode head contacts the medium, and the electrode shaft exhibits frustoconically shaped sealing lips arranged one after the other in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the electrode. The electrode shaft is pressed into a bore in the wall of the measuring tube. The maximum diameter of the sealing lip nearest the electrode head is greater than the diameter of the bore, and, at least in a part of the electrode shaft, the maximum diameter of any following sealing lip is greater than the maximum diameter of the preceding sealing lip.