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1. The document contains 4 questions/problems related to flow measurement devices. The first problem involves calculating water flowrate using a venture meter. The second calculates air mass flowrate using a Pitot tube. The third calculates gas volume flowrate using a venture meter and manometer. The fourth involves sizing an orifice meter to measure brine flow.

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Questions / Problems:: M S M S

1. The document contains 4 questions/problems related to flow measurement devices. The first problem involves calculating water flowrate using a venture meter. The second calculates air mass flowrate using a Pitot tube. The third calculates gas volume flowrate using a venture meter and manometer. The fourth involves sizing an orifice meter to measure brine flow.

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QUESTIONS / PROBLEMS:

1. A venture meter having a throat diameter of 38.9 mm is installed in a line


having an inside diameter of 102.3 mm. It meters water having a density of
999 kg/m3. The measure pressure drop across the venture meter is 156.9
kPa. The coefficient Cv is 0.98. Calculate the water flowrate.

1( 0.98)
U2 = √1−¿ ¿ ¿ = 17.74 m/s
m m3
Q= 17.74 s ¿] = 0.021 s

2. A Pitot tube is inserted into the center of an air duct 0.8 m in diameter. A
pressure gage attached to the Pitot tube reads -P = 9 N/m2. The Pitot tube
coefficient is 0.982. Calculate the mass flow rate of air, at a temperature of
35oC and a pressure of 101 kPa.

uo  C 2gc H
H =
1atm 29 kg
(101,000 Pa) ( )
PM 101325 Pa kmol
= RT = atm−m 3 = 1.1815 kg/m3
0.0821 ( 35+273 ) K
kmol−K
1 kg−m N

√
2( 2
)(9 2 )
s −N m
Uo = 0.982 kg
= 3.83 m/s
1.1815 3
m

 air = 1.846 x 10-5 kg/m-s


m kg
0.8 m(3.83 )(1.1815 3 )
s m
Dumax/ = kg = 1.96 x 105
1.846 x 1 0−5
m−s

From The Fig


V ave
V max
= 0.85
V ave = 0.85(3.83) = 3.26 m/s
m kg
m = 3.26 [3.1416 ¿ ¿(1.1815 3 ) = 1.93 kg/s
s m
3. A Venturi meter with an entrance diameter of 0.3m and a throat diameter of
0.2m is used to measure the volume of gas flowing through a pipe. The
discharge coefficient of the meter is 0.96. Assuming the specific weight of the
gas to be constant at 19.62 N/m 3, calculate the volume flowing when the
pressure difference between the entrance and the throat is measured as 0.06
m on a water U-tube manometer.

For manometer reading (Fluid in manometer is water)

kg m
-P = gh = 1000 3
(9.8 2 )(0.06 m) = 588 Pa
m s
For the air flowing

588
(P1-P2)/P1 = x 100=0.58 %< 10 %, the system can be considered incompressible fluid
191325

Where Y = 1

kg−m
N s 2−N kg
For the fluid  = 19.62 3 ( ) = 2.00 3
m 9.8 m m
s2
1(0.96)
U2 = √1−¿ ¿ ¿ = 29 m/s
m m3
Q = 29 s ]
¿ = 0.9 s
4. Brine (specific gravity 1.18) is flowing though a 80-mm pipe at a maximum
rate of 0.015 m3/s. In order to measure the flow rate, a sharp-edged orifice,
connected to simple U-tube manometer is to be 390 mm Hg. What size
orifice should be installed?

Note brine is not negligible as compared to Mercury

P1 + (h + z ) brine)( g) = P2 + (h )( brine)(g) + z ( Hg)(g)

P1 – P2 = z( Hg -  brine)(g)

For sharp edge orifice ( Co = 0.61)

380
) m(13600−1180) mkg ( 9.8 ms )
√ ( 1000
3
1( 0.61) 2
m 3 2
0.015 ¿=
s √ 1−¿ ¿ ¿ kg
1180
m3

(
19099 ) = 5.40
¿¿ √ 1−¿ ¿ ¿
D2 = 55.6 mm

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