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Orifice Plates: Two-Phase Applications

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Measuring Techniques in Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flows

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The use of sharp-edged orifice plates to measure the mass dryness fraction in two-phase flow in pipes is discussed. In particular the influence of the following aspects are examined:

  1. a

    conditions near the thermodynamic critical point;

  2. b

    pipe and orifice size;

  3. c

    compressibility effects of the gas phase;

  4. d

    the viscosity of the liquid; and

  5. e

    setting length, flow straighteners, and homogenisers.

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  1. Glasgow College Of Technology, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow, G4 0BA, Scotland

    D. Chisholm

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  1. Centre d’Etudes Nucléaires de Grenoble, Service des Transferts Thermiques 85X, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, 38041, Grenoble Cedex, France

    J. M. Delhaye

  2. Laboratoire d’Energétique et de Mécanique, Théorique et Appliquée, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, BP 850, 54011, Nancy Cedex, France

    G. Cognet

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Chisholm, D. (1984). Orifice Plates: Two-Phase Applications. In: Delhaye, J.M., Cognet, G. (eds) Measuring Techniques in Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flows. International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82112-7_28

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