Fluid flow conditioner
AssigneeFluid Components International LLC
InventorsEric Wible, Michael R. Noel, Brian McDole
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Abstract
A device and method for conditioning media flowing within a conduit enabling sensors placed within short straight run distances to measure media flow with improved accuracy employing a thermal flow instrument. A flow conditioner downstream of a media flow measuring transducer has walls that diverge in the flow direction to optimize readings of the media flow from the transducer.
Claims20
A fluid flow conditioner device for use with a thermal mass flow instrument having at least one thermowell having a sensing element therein configured to be arranged in the media flow in a conduit, the media within the conduit flowing in a predetermined direction, the sensing element being heated for at least a portion of the time that the media is flowing in the conduit, the device comprising:
- a first wall element arranged a predetermined distance downstream from said at least one thermowell, said first wall element being orientated at an angle with respect to the media flow direction, the distance between said first wall element and said at least one thermowell being sufficiently close to cause the media flowing between said at least one thermowell and said first wall element to be substantially free or turbulence.
A method for conditioning media flowing in a predetermined direction within a conduit having a thermal mass flow instrument therein comprising at least one thermowell with a sensing element arranged in the media flow in the conduit, the method comprising:
- installing a first wall adjacent to and downstream from the at least one thermowell at an angle with respect to the media flow direction and sufficiently close to the at least one thermowell to cause the media flow to be substantially free of turbulence as it flows past the at least one thermowell.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.