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Flow Measurement Experiment: Object
Flow Measurement Experiment: Object
Safety valve
Manomete
Rotameter
Gate valve
Elbow
Manometer tappings
Venturi meter
Orifice meter
I
Rotameter
Wide angle diffuser
Manometer tappings
Flow
Venturi meter
B
Orifice meter
H
C
51.9 mm
26 mm
16 mm
Figure 1
26 mm
20 mm
The discharge
m = Q = V BA B = A B
2g
1 AB AA
PA PB
g g
12
m = 0.962 h A h B
12
kg/s
2) Orifice Meter
Apply the continuity equation and the conservation of energy equation
across the venture meter (pressure tappings E to F). The head loss H
across the orifice meter cannot be neglected. In the energy equation
the terms
PE PF
H
g g
can be replaced by
P
P
K2 E F
g g
The effect of the head loss across the orifice is to make the difference
in the manometer heights less than it would otherwise be. The
coefficient of discharge K for this particular orifice geometry has been
found to be 0.601. Again assuming that zE - zF is zero and the density
of water is 1000 kg/m3 gives that
2g
1 AF AE
m = VF A F = KA F
PE PF
g g
12
m = 0.846 h E h F
12
kg/s
H = hA - hC
H = hE - hF