摘要:
A vibration densitometer probe with a shield and well which have solved a calibration shift problem involving a calibration shift that occurred when the probe was placed in different gases or in the hollow interiors or pipelines of different sizes or geometries or the probe was placed in the same container or pipeline with different orientations. Unusual shield perforations and ports also improve operation.
摘要:
A vibration densitometer having means for producing an output signal which is a pulse train of a pulse repetition frequency that is the function of the density of a fluid in which a densitometer probe is immersed. The densitometer has a linearization circuit which is exceptionally accurate for both liquid and gas density measurement or the like, the linearization circuit producing an output voltage Eoo given by the equation Eoo AT2 + CT + B, where A, B and C are constants, and T is the reciprocal of the pulse repetition frequency.
摘要:
A net oil computer including a vibration densitometer and a turbine flowmeter. The flowmeter produces output pulses at a frequency directly proportional to the rate of volume flow through a pipeline. The output of the flowmeter is impressed upon the pole of a single pole, double throw electronic switch. One switch contact is connected to an indicator through a divider, a driver amplifier and a counter. The other contact is also connected to an indicator through a divider, a driver amplifier and a counter. The switch is operated by a gate generator connected from the densitometer. The gate generator produces an output pulse of a pulse width directly proportional to the percent of oil or water in the pipeline. A temperature probe is inserted in the line to vary the pulse width in accordance with oil temperature. The densitometer has an improved magnetostrictive drive which is controlled to have a phase proper for maximum resonance. The densitometer is also provided with a self-start circuit to find resonance automatically. A synchronous detector detects resonance and automatically turns the self-start circuit off.
摘要:
A gravitometer incorporating two ferromagnetic cantilevered vanes simultaneously vibrated by a spaced ferromagnetic driver at their respective same or different frequencies. The driver provides a field reversal which produces a double frequency at two respective piezoelectric crystal pickups fixed to the respective vanes. Two respective divide-by-two dividers cause the driver to produce a synchronous field drive so that the apparatus forms two combined closed loop electromechanical oscillators, the loops having amplifiers with respective gains adequate to sustain vibrations of both vanes continuously.
摘要:
A vibration densitometer including a closed loop electromechanical oscillator for vibrating a fluid immersible vane. A digital output directly proportional to density is achieved through a unique digital squarer. The densitometer is an all digital system. In the loop, a tracking filter is provided. Separate search and track automatic gain control feedbacks are provided. A threshold detector controls clamps and a gate to cause the voltage controlled oscillator of a first phase lock loop to search or track the vane resonant frequency. The threshold detector also effects the search feedback. A phase adjustment circuit and a second phase lock loop are employed to impress a sine wave voltage component on the vane driver of a phase which creates maximum efficiency.
摘要:
A densitometer which utilizes a thin vane vibrated by a magnetostrictive tube. A piezoelectric crystal pickup feeds an amplifier and tracking filter to energize a coil around the magnetostrictive tube. The device is, in effect, an electromagnetic oscillator in that the coil is driven in phase with the detected signal. Vibration thus increases in amplitude until limited electrically. A linearization circuit provides an output D.C. voltage directly proportional to fluid density, gas, or liquid, which may be impressed upon a conventional D.C. voltmeter calibrated linearly in density. A great many features, both in the mechanical structure and in the electronics, make it possible to easily calibrate the instrument to read, for example, to within an accuracy tolerance of + OR - 0.01 percent over a fluid density range of, for example, from about 0.08 pounds per cubic foot to 80.0 pounds per cubic foot. Another outstanding advantage of the invention relates to a probe type construction which may be used in a pipeline of any size.
摘要:
A sensor which has a bending reed and a piezoelectric resonator. Due to excitation by the piezoelectric resonator, the bending reed can be excited to vibration in a measurable medium. In this context, the vibration frequency and the damping of the bending reed are a function of the density and the viscosity, respectively, of the measurable medium. This can be measured by a piezoresistive element, and thus the density and viscosity of the measurable medium are ascertained.
摘要:
A vibration densitometer including a closed loop electromechanical oscillator for vibrating a fluid immersible vane. A digital output directly proportional to density is achieved through a unique digital squarer. The densitometer is an all digital system. In the loop, a tracking filter is provided. Separate search and track automatic gain control feedbacks are provided. A threshold detector controls clamps and a gate to cause the voltage controlled oscillator of a first phase lock loop to search or track the vane resonant frequency. The threshold detector also effects the search feedback. A phase adjustment circuit and a second phase lock loop are employed to impress a sine wave voltage component on the vane driver of a phase which creates maximum efficiency.
摘要:
A vibration densitometer including a closed loop electromechanical oscillator for vibrating a fluid immersible vane. A digital output directly proportional to density is achieved through a unique digital squarer. The densitometer is an all digital system. In the loop, a tracking filter is provided. Separate search and track automatic gain control feedbacks are provided. A threshold detector controls clamps and a gate to cause the voltage controlled oscillator of a first phase lock loop to search or track the vane resonant frequency. The threshold detector also effects the search feedback. A phase adjustment circuit and a second phase lock loop are employed to impress a sine wave voltage component on the vane driver of a phase which creates maximum efficiency.
摘要:
Gas flowmeters for indicating total volume flow. The flowmeters incorporate gravitometers having vibration densitometers including spring metal ferromagnetic cantilevered vanes which vibrate when driven. A thermally conductive housing stores heat and equalizes the temperature between a gas of interest and air. The air is kept dry by a desiccator. The gas is circulated through a first chamber in the housing containing one vane. Air occupies a second chamber having another vane therein. Both chambers are vented to the atmosphere. The gas is circulated through the first chamber very slowly so that the pressures in both chambers are approximately equal to atmospheric. In one embodiment of the gravitometer, gravity, G, is computed in a manner similar to