Table of Contents

General Concepts of Flow and Flow Instrumentation.

Inferential Flow Measurement.

Two-Phase Flow Applications.

Flow Measurements in Harsh Environments.

Using Modeling to Improve Mass Flowmetering Accuracy.

Flowmeter Calibration Methods.

A New Gravimetric Flow Calibrator.

Index.

About the Author

J. E. HARDY has been a research staff member at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for over twenty years, concentrating in instrumentation and controls with an emphasis on the measurement of flow in harsh environments.

J. O. HYLTON is a researcher at the Instrumentation and Controls Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has worked extensively in the area of thermal and fluid mechanics, including the development of flow measurement instrumentation.

T. E. McKNIGHT has worked for ten years at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, predominantly in the measurement and calibration of fluid flow and other physical processes.

C. J. REMENYIK is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tennessee, Engineering Science, and Adjunct Researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has also worked for the aerospace industry.

F. R. RUPPEL is a senior instrumentation and controls engineer at Thermatrix Inc. in Knoxville, Tennessee. He has held engineering positions at Union Carbide in South Charleston, West Virginia, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and SEMATECH, the semiconductor consortium in Austin, Texas.