Experimental Study of a New Flow Conditioner on Disturbed Flow in Orifice Plate Metering

Abstract

The sensitivity to poor conditioned and swirling flow of flow measurements using an orifice plate are subjects of concern to flowmeter users and manufacturers. Measurements of mass flow rate under different conditions and different Reynolds numbers were used to establish a change in discharge coefficient relative to the standard one. The experimental results show that an optimally shaped flow conditioner could attenuate the effects of both swirl and asymmetrical flows. The optimization of the swirler flow conditioner is a main outcome of this work. So far the experimental results show that the cone swirler flow conditioner is the best one for swirling flow.