Plant Flow Measurement and Control Handbook

Chapter 1 FLOW METERING GENERAL DISCUSSIONS: - Principles, types, Selection and calibration

1 Introduction

2 Basic Fluid mechanics

3 Flow measurements types and principles

4 Selection of flow meters

5 Discussions on Pressure loss and other issue

6 Principles and good practices of installations& calibration

7 Sonic Nozzle gas flow measurement

8 Other miscellaneous Flow measuring techniques.

Chapter 2 HEAD TYPE AND VARIABLE AREA FLOW METERING

1 Head type Flow measurement general discussions

2 Orifice Plate (mainly measuring orifice)

3 Flow nozzle

4 Venturi Long/Short

5 Dall Tube

6 Pitot Tube krell bar

7 Annubar and Krell's orifice

8 Special Head type elements Elbow type

9 Variable Area Flow measurement discussions

Chapter 3 OPEN CHANNEL FLOW MEASUREMENT

1 General principlez

2 Parshall Flume

3 Weir

Chapter 4 POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT TYPE FLOW METERING

1 PD meter General discussions

2 Nutating Disc

3 Oval Gear

4 Rotating Piston

5 Rotating Vane

6 Reciprocating Flow meter

7 Others (Helical gear, Circular screw, Bi/Tri rotor)

Chapter 5 VELOCITY AND FORCE TYPE FLOW METERS

1 Velocity Flow meter general discussions

2 Turbine & Paddle wheel Flow meter

3 Vortex/swril meter

4 Coanda Effect and Momentum Exchange Flow meters

5 Electromagnetic Flow meter

6 Ultrasonic Flow meter- Dopler & Transit time

7 Anemometer--Mech, Doppler and Thermal

8 Target Flow meter

9 SONAR method of detection

Chapter 6 Mass Flow meter

1 Introduction general discussions

2 Coriolis Mass flow measurement

3 IMPELLER TURBINE MASS FLOW MEASUREMENT

4 THERMAL MASS FLOW MEASUREMENT

　Chapter 7 SLURRY FLOW MEASUREMENT

1 INTRODUCTION TO RHEOLOGY and rheological properties

2 DISCUSSION ON SLURRY FLOW

3 INSTRUMENTATION IN SLURRY FLOW MEASUREMENTS

4 instrumentation for selected slurry and complex flow applications

5 WEDGE FLOW ELEMENT

6 Wedge Flow meter

　Chapter 8 SOLID FLOW MEASUREMENT

1 Solid flow measuring principles

2 Impact scale solid flow metering

3 Coriolis Solid flow measuremen

4 Microwave solid flow metering

5 Load cells and speed sensors

6 Nucleonic solid flow metering

7 Loss in weight and Gravity feeder

8 Belt scale Solid flow meatering

9 Weigh feeder Solid flow measurement

　Chapter 9 MULTIPHASE FLOW MEASUREMENT

1 introduction: CONCEPT of multiphase flow---- AN overview

2 MULTIPHASE FLOW MEASUREMENTS ESTIMATION AND TYPES

3 MULTIPHASE FLOW METERING TECHNOLOGIES

4 MULTIPHASE FLOW METERING--- MISCELLANEOUS TECHNICAL ISSUES

5 MULTIPHASE FLOW METERING--- INSTALLATION AND COMMISIONING ISSUES

6 MULTIPHASE FLOW METERING--- TESTING AND CALIBRATION

　Chapter 10 Special Flow meters, flow gages and switches

1 Hall Effect Flow measurements

2 Cryogenic flow measurements

3 Flow Gages

4 Flow switches

　Chapter 11 Flow Conditioning, Computation and control

1 Flow Conditioning unit Straightening vane, conditioning plates

2Transmitters for flow elements

3 Metering pumps

4 Energy Flow Calculator

5 Dispensing filling and Batch control

6 Flow computer

7 Flow controller

8 Signal conditioning units

9Rate and totalised flow Displays

　Chapter 12 Flow in Plant Applications

1 General plant issues

2 Thermal power plant

3 Nuclear power Plant

4 Oil and gas Industries

5Paper and chemicals

Appendix I Unit conversions and flow regimes

Appendix II Material Selection Guide

Appendix III Mechanical and piping data

Appendix IV Custody transfer

Appendix V Safety life cycle discussion

Appendix VI Enclosure electrical protection

Appendix VII Device Communication