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A Novel Method for Wet Gas Flow Measurements Based on an Over-Reading Principle

Jinjing Zhang, Jia Li^*

Shanghai Vocational College of Agriculture and Forestry, Shanghai, 201699, China

* Corresponding Author: Jia Li. Email:

Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing 2023, 19(2), 303-313. https://doi.org/10.32604/fdmp.2022.020723

Received 08 December 2021; Accepted 15 March 2022; Issue published 29 August 2022

Abstract

A novel method to measure the flow rate in a wet gas is presented. Due to the presence of liquid, there is a deviation in the measurement of the gas volume flow rate obtained with standard vortex flow-meters. The proposed method is based on a correction factor determined through the application of an over-reading approach to a bluff body in mist flow. The correction factor is obtained from the slip velocity ratio, i.e., the ratio of droplet velocity to gas velocity, based on the analysis of the fluid velocity distribution in the pipeline section. It also takes into account relevant theoretical arguments. It is shown that the predicted results fit the experimental results well.

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