Book contents
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Nomenclature
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Fluid Mechanics Essentials
- Chapter 3 Specification, Selection, and Audit
- Chapter 4 Calibration
- Chapter 5 Orifice Plate Meters
- Chapter 6 Venturi Meter and Standard Nozzles
- Chapter 7 Critical Flow Venturi Nozzle
- Chapter 8 Other Momentum-Sensing Meters
- Chapter 9 Positive Displacement Flowmeters
- Chapter 10 Turbine and Related Flowmeters
- Chapter 11 Vortex-Shedding, Swirl, and Fluidic Flowmeters
- Chapter 12 Electromagnetic Flowmeters
- Chapter 13 Ultrasonic Flowmeters
- Chapter 14 Mass Flow Measurement Using Multiple Sensors for Single- and Multiphase Flows
- Chapter 15 Thermal Flowmeters
- Chapter 16 Angular Momentum Devices
- Chapter 17 Coriolis Flowmeters
- Chapter 18 Probes for Local Velocity Measurement in Liquids and Gases
- Chapter 19 Modern Control Systems
- Chapter 20 Some Reflections on Flowmeter Manufacture, Production, and Markets
- Chapter 21 Future Developments
- Bibliography
- A Selection of International Standards
- Conferences
- References
- Index
Chapter 20 - Some Reflections on Flowmeter Manufacture, Production, and Markets
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Nomenclature
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Fluid Mechanics Essentials
- Chapter 3 Specification, Selection, and Audit
- Chapter 4 Calibration
- Chapter 5 Orifice Plate Meters
- Chapter 6 Venturi Meter and Standard Nozzles
- Chapter 7 Critical Flow Venturi Nozzle
- Chapter 8 Other Momentum-Sensing Meters
- Chapter 9 Positive Displacement Flowmeters
- Chapter 10 Turbine and Related Flowmeters
- Chapter 11 Vortex-Shedding, Swirl, and Fluidic Flowmeters
- Chapter 12 Electromagnetic Flowmeters
- Chapter 13 Ultrasonic Flowmeters
- Chapter 14 Mass Flow Measurement Using Multiple Sensors for Single- and Multiphase Flows
- Chapter 15 Thermal Flowmeters
- Chapter 16 Angular Momentum Devices
- Chapter 17 Coriolis Flowmeters
- Chapter 18 Probes for Local Velocity Measurement in Liquids and Gases
- Chapter 19 Modern Control Systems
- Chapter 20 Some Reflections on Flowmeter Manufacture, Production, and Markets
- Chapter 21 Future Developments
- Bibliography
- A Selection of International Standards
- Conferences
- References
- Index
Summary
INTRODUCTION
I do not claim an expertise in manufacture, but I want to make three points briefly in this chapter and then to enlarge on the last of them.
Market information is usually inaccessible, and there may be a case for research centers to work together to provide a better source of data for industry. It is clear that there is not always an entirely satisfactory information flow, even within companies, between the marketing department and the technical and manufacturing operations.
My first point is, therefore, to suggest the need for better market information both within and outside companies.
My second point is to indicate the need for the flow metering industry, on the one hand, and the science base as it relates to instrumentation, on the other hand, to create an effective means for technology transfer, which in the process will raise the profile of the sector and ensure that government is aware of its importance. Past experience of encouraging collaboration suggests that industry and the science base do not always appreciate the value of working together. Collaboration between industry and the science base should be mutually beneficial in providing an antenna for new information on developing technologies.
The third point is that the production of instrumentation is a special case in which the effect of the production process on the final accuracy of the instrument may, in some cases, be predicted and used to specify the production requirements.
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- Flow Measurement HandbookIndustrial Designs, Operating Principles, Performance, and Applications, pp. 451 - 462Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000