Several compensation methods of vortex flow meter
As a very special medium, steam will show special phenomena and problems in the process of vortex flowmeter measurement. The key problem is that the vapor density value deviates too much from the design value, which brings significant measurement errors to the measurement results. At present, the density measuring instrument with mature technology has not been successfully applied, which brings certain difficulties to the steam flow measurement.
1. One-time compensation implementation method
First of all, determine the working parameters of the steam – temperature and pressure, vortex flowmeter according to the working parameters to determine the density of the steam working state, the density as the future flow measurement process of the steam density for hole plate calculation. The actual change of steam is no longer compensated or corrected in the work, which is the so-called one-time calculation compensation method.
If in operation, the working parameters of the steam are consistent with the set value at the time of design, the accuracy of the steam flow measurement can be guaranteed. If the parameters deviate from the actual working conditions, or even deviate greatly, the deviation of the measurement results may be large.
One-time compensation method, the measurement method adopted in the early development of automatic detection technology, the measurement error is large, can be used as a rough measurement. This design method is still in use in the current widely popular flow throttling device design manual.
2. Online density compensation implementation method
With the wide application of microelectronic technology in instrument. The calculation function, compensation correction function, cumulative function, historical data storage function, digital filtering function, output function, digital communication function and so on can be easily realized. Therefore, on-line density compensation has become an essential basic function of steam metering instruments and has been widely used.
a. Saturated steam online density compensation.
Vortex flowmeter can realize integrated temperature and pressure compensation, and there is a strict one-to-one correspondence between the temperature and pressure of saturated steam. The density of a saturated vapor can be a single function of its temperature or its pressure. According to the temperature value or pressure value of the saturated steam, the real-time density value can be obtained by looking up the table method or formula calculation method (IFC1967 or IAPW-1997).
In flow measurement, vortex flowmeter can be realized by temperature compensation or pressure compensation vortex flowmeter. To select a vortex flowmeter with temperature compensation function. Turn on the temperature sensor of the flowmeter to detect the measured steam temperature in real time, so as to obtain the corresponding density value.
b. Superheated steam on-line density compensation
Superheated steam is a kind of steam with special quality obtained by reheating saturated steam. It breaks the strict one-to-one relationship between temperature and pressure inherent in saturated steam. Vortex flowmeter can treat superheated steam as a single medium during flow measurement. The density of superheated steam is a function of its temperature and pressure. When ordering vortex flowmeters, the temperature and pressure compensation type should be selected. In actual use, the temperature and pressure sensors are opened at the same time to measure the steam temperature and pressure value in real time, and the density value can be accurately calculated according to the superheated steam density table or density calculation formula.