摘要:
The invention relates to a sensor for detecting at least one physical measurable variable of a flowable medium guided in a tube conduit and/or for producing Coriolis forces which serve to detect the mass flow rate of a flowable medium guided in a tube conduit. The sensor comprises a sensor housing (7 1 ), a housing end on the inlet side being defined by a splitter (20 1 ) on the inlet side which has exactly four respective interspaced flow openings (20 1A , 20 1B , 20 1C , 20 1D ) and a housing end on the outlet side being defined by a splitter (20 2 ) on the outlet side which has exactly four respective interspaced flow openings (20 2A , 20 2B , 20 2C , 20 2D ), and exactly four straight measuring tubes (18 1 , 18 2 , 18 3 , 18 4 ) for guiding the flowing medium which tubes are connected to the splitters (20 1 , 20 2 ) to give fluidically parallel flow paths. The respective measuring tube end on the inlet side of each of the four measuring tubes leads to one of the flow openings (20 1A , 20 1B , 20 1C , 20 1D ) of the splitter (20 1 ) on the inlet side and the respective measuring tube end on the outlet side leads to one of the flow openings (20 2A , 20 2B , 20 2C , 20 2D ) of the splitter (20 2 ) on the outlet side. The sensor further comprises an electro-mechanical exciter arrangement (5) for producing and/or maintaining mechanical vibrations of the four measuring tubes (18 1 , 18 2 , 18 3 , 18 4 ), the exciter arrangement being designed such that it can be used to excite the paired measuring tubes to perform respective counter-phase flexural vibrations in a respective common imaginary plane of vibration (XZ 1 , XZ 2 ). The sensor according to the invention is especially suitable for measuring a density and/or a mass flow rate of a medium which flows at least temporarily inside a tube conduit at a mass flow rate of more than 2200 t/h.