Patent classifications
G01F15/00
FLUID METERING DEVICE WITH REDUCED CROSS CONTAMINATION
Embodiments provide a fluid metering device, including: a first fluid supply port for receiving a first fluid; a first fluid dispense port for dispensing the first fluid; a second fluid supply port for receiving a second fluid; a second fluid dispense port for dispensing the second fluid; a waste discharge port for discharging a mixture of the first fluid and the second fluid; a valve assembly including a plurality of valves; a manifold connected to the metering pump, wherein the manifold includes a plurality of fluid channels, and the manifold is used for communicating between the valve assembly and each port; a first tube connected between the second valve and the third valve for accommodating the mixture or the first fluid; and a second tube connected between the third valve and the fourth valve for accommodating the second fluid.
REVOLVER BYPASS VALVE
A bypass valve includes a base defining a base sealing surface, the base defining a upstream utility bore, a downstream utility bore, a meter inlet bore, and a meter outlet bore each extending into the base sealing surface; and a selector defining a selector sealing surface positioned in sealing engagement with the base sealing surface, the selector defining a primary passage and a secondary passage, the selector defining at least one primary passage bore extending into the selector sealing surface and connecting in fluid communication with the primary passage, the selector defining at least one secondary passage bore extending into the selector sealing surface and connecting in fluid communication with the secondary passage, the selector being rotatable relative to the base about and between a meter position and a bypass position, the selector connecting the upstream utility bore in fluid communication with the meter inlet bore in the meter position.
Ultrasonic Flow Meter
Disclosed is an ultrasonic flow meter configured to measure the flow rate of a fluid using ultrasonic waves, wherein branch flow paths are formed in a flow path in order to regularly reduce the sectional area of the flow path over at least a predetermined distance between reflectors such that the flow speed of the fluid in the flow path between the reflectors is increased without pressure loss, whereby it is possible to improve measurement accuracy.
Water Meter With Magnetically Driven Flow Restriction Valve
A utility flow meter including a valve having a pressure vessel providing a flow path from a meter inlet to a meter outlet through the valve is magnetically driven. The meter includes a valve member positioned within the valve in the pressure vessel for movement between an open position allowing normal flow through the flow meter and a flow restriction position in which flow through the flow meter is limited to less than the normal flow and an electrically operable control device for controlling movement of the valve member including a dry-side magnet assembly and a wet-side magnet assembly. The electrically operable control device receives command signals to rotate the dry-side magnet assembly to move the valve member and thereby increase or decrease flow through the metering chamber.
Sub-sea chemical injection metering valve
An apparatus that includes a chemical injection management system. The chemical injection management system may include an interface configured to couple the chemical injection management system to a mineral extraction system. In addition, the chemical injection management system may include an ultrasonic flow meter.
Arrangement and method for measuring a delivery volume and a delivery rate of an intermittently operating pump
The present invention relates to an arrangement for detecting a delivery volume and/or a delivery flow, with a discontinuously operating pump (1), at least one outlet line (3) and/or one inlet line (2, 2-1, 2-2) and a passive valve (5, 5-1, 5-2), which is arranged in the outlet line (3) or the inlet line (2, 2-1, 2-2) and which has a valve seat (15-1, 15-2) and a valve head (16-1, 16-2), the valve (5, 5-1, 5-2) being closed in a first position of the valve head (16-1, 16-2) and being open in a second position of the valve head (16-1, 16-2) of the valve (5, 5-1, 5-2). The arrangement according to the invention is defined by a sensor (8, 8-1, 8-2), by means of which values can be detected which indicate whether the valve head (16-1, 16-2) is in the first or the second position, and by a computing unit (9) which is coupled to the sensor (8, 8-1, 8-2) and by means of which the volume delivered by the pump (1) and/or the delivery flow of the pump (1) can be calculated on the basis of the detected values of the sensor (8, 8-1, 8-2). The invention relates furthermore, to an extraction system for a plant protective with such an arrangement and to a method for detecting a delivery volume and/or a delivery flow of a discontinuously operating pump, which method can be carried out by this arrangement.
Low flow fluid device and pre-piped hydronics
A fluid distribution apparatus that can serve as a fluid metering device that is operable on a single platform by building automation systems. The building automation system may be controllable by a single software system or network accessible locally on site or remotely off site. The fluid distribution apparatus can operate independently or coupled with multiple like apparatuses for system operation. It is a high turndown, self-balancing system which allows for continuous commissioning with built-in fault diagnostic systems and that may be used as a supply system, exhaust system, or a combination thereof. The fluid distribution apparatus includes fluid metering devices that operate progressively based on unique actuation mechanisms and/or algorithms that allow for precise flow control and feedback to self-balance and commission the system.
Microfluidic flow sensor
A microfluidic flow sensor may include a substrate having a microfluidic channel, an inert particle source to supply a fluid carrying an inert particle to the microfluidic channel and a sensor element along the microfluidic channel and spaced from the inert particle source. The sensor element outputs a signal based upon a sensed passage of the inert particle with respect to the sensor element. Portions of the microfluidic channel proximate the sensor element have a first size and wherein the inert particle provided by the inert particle source is to have a second size greater than one half the first size.
Pressure-compensated proportional flow control valve with an integrated turbine for flow rate sensing
An example valve includes: a pressure compensation spool configured to be subjected to a first fluid force of fluid received at a first port acting in a proximal direction; a pressure compensation spring disposed in a pressure compensation chamber and applying a biasing force on the pressure compensation spool in a distal direction; a turbine configured to rotate as fluid flows through the valve; and a flow area configured to throttle fluid flow from the first port to the pressure compensation chamber, wherein fluid in the pressure compensation chamber applies a second fluid force on the pressure compensation spool in the distal direction, such that the pressure compensation spool moves to a particular axial position based on force equilibrium between the first fluid force, the second fluid force, and the biasing force to throttle fluid flow from the pressure compensation chamber to a second port.
Gas meter with thermal time-of-flight sensing
An electronic utility gas meter using MEMS thermal time-of-flight flow sensor to meter gas custody transfer mass flowrate and an additional MEMS gas sensor to measure the combustion gas composition for the correlations to the acquisition of gas high heat value simultaneously is disclosed in the present invention. The meter is designed for the applications in the city utility gas consumption in compliance with the current tariff while metering the true thermal value of the delivered gases for future upgrades. Data safety, remote data communication, and other features with state-of-the-art electronics are also included in the design.