Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electromagnetic steam energy/quality, flow, and fluid property sensor and method
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Application No.: US14851814Application Date: 2015-09-11
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Publication No.: US09964498B2Publication Date: 2018-05-08
- Inventor: Buford Randall Jean , Christopher Faulkner , Brandon Herrera
- Applicant: BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
- Applicant Address: US TX Waco
- Assignee: BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee: BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Waco
- Agency: Jackson Walker LLP
- Main IPC: G01N27/74
- IPC: G01N27/74 ; G01R33/12 ; G01N22/00 ; G01K1/00 ; G01F1/36

Abstract:
The disclosure provides a sensor and method for the measurement of fluid properties, such as steam energy and steam quality, and/or multiphase and multicomponent fluids and their flow regime profiles in a single instrument, and in some embodiments can include the mass flow rate. The invention can incorporate an orifice function that permits the measurement of fluid energy and a flow profile across at least a portion of the flow path with an electromagnetic sensing method combined with a standard mass flow rate measurement using an orifice differential pressure measurement system.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170074816A1 ELECTROMAGNETIC STEAM ENERGY/QUALITY, FLOW, AND FLUID PROPERTY SENSOR AND METHOD Public/Granted day:2017-03-16
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