Abstract:
A system, method, and apparatus for reducing ringing effects associated with a transducer comprises a transducer body, a transducer cap, a piezoelectric element formed in the cap, and a damping material formed around the piezoelectric element wherein the damping material suppresses a ringing effect associated with the transducer, while an O-ring is used together with damping material to support high pressure applications up to 230 bars.
Abstract:
An ultrasonic flowmeter and a fluid pipeline. The ultrasonic flowmeter includes: a housing, which defines a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet with a fluid passage therebetween; and at least two pairs of ultrasonic sensors, wherein each pair of the at least two pairs of ultrasonic sensors have a first ultrasonic sensor and a second ultrasonic sensor arranged opposite to each other; wherein at least some of the at least two pairs of ultrasonic sensors are arranged in grooves on an inner wall of the fluid passage, and center points of front end faces of at least some of the at least two pairs of ultrasonic sensors are located on a cylindrical curved surface defined by the inner wall of the fluid passage.
Abstract:
A system, method, and apparatus for reducing ringing effects associated with a transducer comprises a transducer body, a transducer cap, a piezoelectric element formed in the cap, and a damping material formed around the piezoelectric element wherein the damping material suppresses a ringing effect associated with the transducer, while an O-ring is used together with damping material to support high pressure applications up to 230 bars.
Abstract:
A process control system for controlling an industrial process includes a cloud-computing dependent (C2D) radar level gauge or ultrasonic flow meter (C2D sensor device) including a sensor, transducer, communications unit, with limited hardware/software incapable of calculating an accurate level calculation or high accuracy gas flow rate. A bus couples the sensed data from the C2D sensor device to an IP communications unit that outputs IP protocol data. The cloud computing system is coupled by an IP network to receive the IP protocol data and includes a processor executing advanced data processing algorithms which provides a second part of the C2D sensor device including processing the IP data to generate a remote computational result including the accurate level calculation/high accuracy gas flow rate. The cloud computing system feeds back the remote computational result to a process controller coupled to an actuator that controls processing equipment for automatically tuning the industrial process.
Abstract:
A system includes a control system and a field device. The control system is configured to communicate data with the field device. The field device determines a baseline calibration and a characteristic curve for a process fluid flowing through the field device. The field device monitors an inline condition of the process fluid. The field device determine whether a deviation in a measurement accuracy for a fluid profile is detected according to inline evaluation criteria. The field device calculates a flow rate of the process fluid using a last valid characteristic curve.
Abstract:
A multi-mode pulsed radar method for sensing or measuring a product material in a storage tank includes providing a measure of radar signal attenuation for pulsed radar signals transmitted to the product material. Automatic adjustment of one or more transmitted radar pulse parameters is implemented by selecting a pulse width and a pulse amplitude based on the measure of radar signal attenuation. In signal mode 2 higher amplitude and/or wider pulses are selected when the measure of radar signal attenuation is relatively high and in signal mode 1 lower amplitude and/or narrower pulses are selected when the measure of radar signal attenuation is relatively low. The radar pulse is transmitted to the product material using the selected pulse width and the pulse amplitude. The target signal reflected or scattered from the product material is processed to determine at least one parameter, such as product level.