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Title: The magnetic flywheel flow meter: Theoretical and experimental contributions

Abstract

The development of contactless flow meters is an important issue for monitoring and controlling of processes in different application fields, like metallurgy, liquid metal casting, or cooling systems for nuclear reactors and transmutation machines. Shercliff described in his book “The Theory of Electromagnetic Flow Measurement, Cambridge University Press, 1962” a simple and robust device for contact-less measurements of liquid metal flow rates which is known as magnetic flywheel. The sensor consists of several permanent magnets attached on a rotatable soft iron plate. This arrangement will be placed closely to the liquid metal flow to be measured, so that the field of the permanent magnets penetrates into the fluid volume. The flywheel will be accelerated by a Lorentz force arising from the interaction between the magnetic field and the moving liquid. Steady rotation rates of the flywheel can be taken as a measure for the mean flow rate inside the fluid channel. The present paper provides a detailed theoretical description of the sensor in order to gain a better insight into the functional principle of the magnetic flywheel. Theoretical predictions are confirmed by corresponding laboratory experiments. For that purpose, a laboratory model of such a flow meter was built and testedmore » on a GaInSn-loop under various test conditions.« less

Authors:
;  [1]
  1. Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Fluid Dynamics, Bautzner Landstraße 400, 01328 Dresden (Germany)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22300091
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Applied Physics Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 104; Journal Issue: 22; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; CASTINGS; COOLING SYSTEMS; FLOW RATE; FLOWMETERS; FLYWHEELS; FORECASTING; GAIN; INTERACTIONS; LIQUID METALS; LORENTZ FORCE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; METALLURGY; PERMANENT MAGNETS; PRESSES; ROTATION; SENSORS; SIMULATION; TRANSMUTATION

Citation Formats

Buchenau, D., E-mail: d.buchenau@hzdr.de, Galindo, V., and Eckert, S. The magnetic flywheel flow meter: Theoretical and experimental contributions. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4881330.
Buchenau, D., E-mail: d.buchenau@hzdr.de, Galindo, V., & Eckert, S. The magnetic flywheel flow meter: Theoretical and experimental contributions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4881330
Buchenau, D., E-mail: d.buchenau@hzdr.de, Galindo, V., and Eckert, S. 2014. "The magnetic flywheel flow meter: Theoretical and experimental contributions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4881330.
@article{osti_22300091,
title = {The magnetic flywheel flow meter: Theoretical and experimental contributions},
author = {Buchenau, D., E-mail: d.buchenau@hzdr.de and Galindo, V. and Eckert, S.},
abstractNote = {The development of contactless flow meters is an important issue for monitoring and controlling of processes in different application fields, like metallurgy, liquid metal casting, or cooling systems for nuclear reactors and transmutation machines. Shercliff described in his book “The Theory of Electromagnetic Flow Measurement, Cambridge University Press, 1962” a simple and robust device for contact-less measurements of liquid metal flow rates which is known as magnetic flywheel. The sensor consists of several permanent magnets attached on a rotatable soft iron plate. This arrangement will be placed closely to the liquid metal flow to be measured, so that the field of the permanent magnets penetrates into the fluid volume. The flywheel will be accelerated by a Lorentz force arising from the interaction between the magnetic field and the moving liquid. Steady rotation rates of the flywheel can be taken as a measure for the mean flow rate inside the fluid channel. The present paper provides a detailed theoretical description of the sensor in order to gain a better insight into the functional principle of the magnetic flywheel. Theoretical predictions are confirmed by corresponding laboratory experiments. For that purpose, a laboratory model of such a flow meter was built and tested on a GaInSn-loop under various test conditions.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4881330},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22300091}, journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
issn = {0003-6951},
number = 22,
volume = 104,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jun 02 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Mon Jun 02 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}