Flow rate measurement in a high-temperature, radioactive, and corrosive environment

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2062-2069

  Moazzeni, Taleb ^a   Ma, Jian ^a   Jiang, Yingtao ^a   Li, Ning ^b  

^a Las Vegas   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; delay estimation; fluid flow measurement; transducers; transfer functions (TFs)

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; CORRELATION; CORROSIVE ENVIRONMENT; CROSS CORRELATION METHODS; CROSS CORRELATIONS; CROSS-CORRELATION FUNCTION; DELAY ESTIMATION; ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; FLOW RATE MEASUREMENTS; FLUID FLOW MEASUREMENT; HARSH ENVIRONMENT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IMPULSE RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; LIQUID FLOW; MULTIPLE-PEAK; NEGATIVE DELAYS; PEAK DETECTION; PRACTICAL PROBLEMS; SAMPLING FREQUENCIES; TRANSIT TIME;

CORROSION; ERROR DETECTION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOWMETERS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; NUCLEAR PROPULSION; NUCLEAR REACTORS; REACTOR SHIELDING; STAINLESS STEEL; THERMOCOUPLES;

FLOW RATE;

EID: 79955965753     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2011.2115370     Document Type: Article

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