transfer standard;
sonic Venturi nozzle;
mass flow controller;
D O I:
10.1016/S0955-5986(00)00032-7
中图分类号:
TH [机械、仪表工业];
学科分类号:
0802 ;
摘要:
We have developed a transfer standard system with sonic Venturi nozzles for small mass flow rates of gases. The system is composed of a newly developed automatic pressure controller, two pressure sensors and one temperature sensor to measure the flow conditions in the upstream and downstream sides of a nozzle. The whole system is packed in a portable aluminum trunk. The data are sent to a laptop computer, and the results are displayed on the screen and are written to files. The system can calibrate a flow meter in the flow rate range from 10 mg/min to 100 g/min using ten different sonic Venturi nozzles with the expanded standard uncertainty (k=2) being less than 0.2% for nitrogen. Examples of mass flow controller calibrations are given. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.