Performance characteristics of a capacitive mass flowmeter in a coal-oil slurry at the ANL Solid/Liquid Test Facility

Conference · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:5059656

Bobis, J P; Brewer, W E; Raptis, A C

This paper describes the performance of the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) capacitive flowmeter, a nonintrusive flow instrument with no moving parts, in measuring particle velocity and particle concentration during a series of coal-oil slurry tests at the ANL Solid-Liquid Test Facility (SLTF). The experiment measured mass flow by the capacitive flowmeter in a coal-oil slurry for particle velocities and coal concentrations ranging respectively from 0.4 to 3.7 m/s and 0 to 60 wt % under controlled and reproducible conditions. Measured results, with the capacitive flowmeter located in a vertical pipe run, are compared with the SLTF flow calibration facilities. It is demonstrated that the capacitive flowmeter successfully measured the average slurry density and provided a measure of the slurry velocity, by using the cross-correlation method, for all coal concentrations with several electrode configurations.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 5059656
• Report Number(s): CONF-840577-1; ON: DE84006422
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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