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Obstruction Flowmeters

The document discusses using orifice, venturi, and nozzle meters to measure fluid flow rates. It explains that these obstruction flowmeters work by constricting the flow area in a pipe and using the Bernoulli and mass balance equations between the pre-constriction and constricted points to determine flow rate based on pressure differences. As an example, it provides a problem where the flow rate of methanol through a 4 cm diameter pipe is measured using a 3 cm orifice meter, with the differential pressure head across the orifice found to be 11 cm.

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Obstruction Flowmeters

The document discusses using orifice, venturi, and nozzle meters to measure fluid flow rates. It explains that these obstruction flowmeters work by constricting the flow area in a pipe and using the Bernoulli and mass balance equations between the pre-constriction and constricted points to determine flow rate based on pressure differences. As an example, it provides a problem where the flow rate of methanol through a 4 cm diameter pipe is measured using a 3 cm orifice meter, with the differential pressure head across the orifice found to be 11 cm.

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Obstruction

Flowmeters: Orifice,
Venturi, and Nozzle
Meters

Consider incompressible steady flow of a fluid


in a horizontal pipe of diameter D that is
constricted to a flow area of diameter d, as
shown in Fig. below. The mass balance and
the Bernoulli quations between a location
before the constriction (point 1) and the
location where constriction occurs (point
2)can be written as

EXAMPLE Measuring Flow Rate with an Orifice Meter


The flow rate of methanol at 20C (=788.4 kg/m3 and
=5.857 10-4 kg/m s) through a 4-cm-diameter pipe is to be
measured with a 3-cm-diameter orifice meter equipped with a
mercury manometer across the orifice place, as shown in Fig. 8
60. If the differential height of the manometer is read to be 11 cm,
determine the flow rate of methanol through the pipe and the
average flow velocity.

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