Mahadeva et al., 2008 - Google Patents

Studies of the accuracy of clamp-on transit time ultrasonic flowmeters

Mahadeva et al., 2008

Document ID
17422182886205326552
Author
Mahadeva D
Baker R
Woodhouse J
Publication year
Publication venue
2008 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

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The uncertainty of transit time ultrasonic clamp-on flowmeters is relatively high (currently approximately plusmn5%(Sanderson et al., 2002)). We have studied several factors contributing to this uncertainty, focusing mainly on the separation distance between the …
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