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Pressure-effect expansion correction
Section 4: Flow measurement
3410 Series Gas Ultrasonic Meters Operations Manual
January 2018
3-9000-777 Rev E
4.5.3
Pressure-effect expansion correction
The meter is capable of correcting the raw volumetric flow rate for the effect of pipe expansion
due to pressure changes. Note that for the pressure-effect expansion correction factor to be
calculated, the correction must be enabled (via the
EnableExpCorrPress
data point) and the flow-
condition pressure must be available (i.e., the
EnablePressureInput
data point must be set to
‘Live’(1) or ‘Fixed’(2), see
Section 5.10.3
). The pressure-effect calculation is shown in
Equation
4-10
. If the pressure-effect expansion correction factor is
not
calculated, it is set to 1.0.
Equation 4-10 Pressure-effect expansion correction
where
Equation 4-11 Pressure-effect strain per unit stress
where
=
expansion correction factor due to pressure (dimensionless)
(ExpCorrPressure)
=
pipe strain per unit stress (MPaa-1) (StrainPerUnitStress) calculated
as shown in
Equation 4-8
=
flow-condition absolute pressure (MPaa) (AbsFlowPressure)
calculated as shown in
Equation 4-15
=
reference absolute pressure (MPaa) (0.101325 MPaa)
=
pipe strain per unit stress (MPaa-1) (StrainPerUnitStress)
=
outside diameter of the meter or pipe (m) (PipeOutsideDiameter)
=
inside diameter of the meter or pipe (m) (PipeDiam)
=
Poisson’s Ratio (dimensionless) (PoissonsRatio)
=
Young’s Modulus of elasticity (MPaa) (YoungsModulus)
ExpCorrP 1 3
β
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