A multifunctional sensor has the a process connection housing with a process-side opening, pressure measurement cell with a measurement membrane arranged in the process connection housing, which closes the opening in the process connection housing and which has strain measurement resistors on its side facing away from the process, where a magnet assembly is arranged in the process connection housing, the magnetic field of which is concentrated on a central region of the measurement membrane and penetrates through this into the process, electrodes lying diametrically opposite one another are formed outside the central region on the side of the measurement membrane facing the process, and where the process connection housing contains electronic measuring equipment which is formed to interact with the strain measurement resistors and the electrodes for pressure measurement and magnetic-inductive flow measurement.

An embodiment provides a method for measuring a flow of a fluid using a magnetic flow sensor, including: introducing a magnetic flow sensor into a fluid, wherein the fluid has a flow path, wherein the magnetic flow sensor comprises a coil and metallic field disrupter; positioning the magnetic flow sensor such that a distal end of the magnetic flow sensor is parallel with the flow path of the fluid; and measuring a flow of the fluid by measuring a voltage received from the magnetic flow sensor. Other aspects are described and claimed.

A flowmeter for gaseous fluid includes a conduit composed of non-electrically conductive material for passage of an ionized flow of the gaseous fluid therethrough. The flowmeter further includes an electromagnetic sensor arranged to measure a magnetic field generated about the conduit by the passage of the ionized flow and generate a signal proportional to the magnetic field.

A non-invasive eddy current flow meter embedded into a coolant channel for measuring the coolant flow velocity of liquid metal coolant in a nuclear reactor. The eddy current flow meter measures the coolant flow velocity in pool-type nuclear reactors and narrow coolant channels without creating bottlenecks that impede the coolant flow within the nuclear reactors.

A magnetic circuit device (1) for a magnetic-inductive flowmeter, having a coil (2) that has a coil core (3). The magnetic circuit device (1) enables an increased range of application, in that it can be flexibly adapted to the geometries of the respective magnetic flow meter due to the fact that the coil core (3) is designed to be flexible in such a way that the coil (2) can be bent from a first shape into a second shape. In addition, a method (100) for manufacturing such a magnetic circuit device (1) involves the steps of provisioning, winding, heating, connecting, bending and fixing of the coil.

A sensor device is provided for fitting to an object through which a medium flows, in particular to a pipeline. The sensor device comprises at least one converter device having at least one flexible converter element which comprises at least one electrically conductive conductor element and, for the sectional coverage of the object, is transposable to an operating position, in which it is at least partially arranged about a longitudinal axis. The converter device comprises a resetting device having at least one transmission element which is arranged on the converter element. The resetting device is provided for the setting and/or resetting of the converter element in the operating position.

A system and related method for precisely monitoring fluid or gas flows, comprising: a flow meter comprising a mechanical metering component; the mechanical metering component comprising a ferrous material; a three-axis magnetic field sensor for sensing fluctuations of a magnetic field arising from movements of the ferrous material, and specifically, for sensing a magnetic field vector of the magnetic field; computer processing for receiving data from the magnetic field sensor and storing magnetic field behavior data representing time behavior of the magnetic field vector in three space dimensions; calibration programming for analyzing and learning a magnetic signature of the meter; programming for storing a unique calibration pattern of the magnetic signature representing baseline behaviors thereof; and comparison programming for comparing behaviors of the magnetic field during operation with the calibrated baseline behaviors and thereby deducing flows which are occurring during operation as a function of time under various conditions.

Systems and components thereof are provided for analyzing multiphase production fluids. The system comprises a fluidic separation chamber, a fluidic separation chamber valve, fluidic piping configured to supply multiphase production fluid to the fluidic separation chamber through the fluidic separation chamber valve, a plurality of composite sensing modules vertically spaced within the fluidic separation chamber, and a fluidic supply and analysis unit. Each of the sensing modules comprising an inductive sensor comprising opposing inductive sensing elements displaced from one another across a vertically extending measurement portion of the fluidic separation chamber, and a capacitive sensor comprising opposing capacitive sensing elements displaced from one another across the vertically extending measurement portion of the fluidic separation chamber. The capacitive sensor of each of the plurality of composite sensing modules to detect a height H.sub.O of an oil phase column in the multiphase production fluid in the fluidic separation chamber.

A catalyst alarm system for resin/catalyst spray applications, the system having a first flow sensor that monitors whether a catalyst from a manifold is flowing for supply to a spay gun or other applicator at a specified minimum rate; a second flow sensor that detects if the catalyst is flowing out of a bypass conduit of the manifold, which indicates the catalyst is not being mixed with the resin; a third flow sensor that detects if the catalyst is flowing out of an over-pressure conduit of the manifold, which indicates that only a partial amount of the required catalyst is being mixed with the resin; and monitoring circuitry for providing alarm and/or control features based on activation combinations of the three flow sensors.

An electromagnetic flowmeter and a method for measuring a property of a fluid composition are provided. The electromagnetic flowmeter includes a first electric conductor with first and second ends, arranged inside a fluid conduit carrying a fluid composition comprising hydrocarbons, an RF electric signal source, and a first dual signal detector including first and second input ports. The first terminal of the electric signal source is connected to the first end of the first electric conductor and arranged to induce an RF electromagnetic wave in the fluid conduit by supplying an input electric signal to the first end of the first electric conductor. The first and second ports of the signal detector are connected to the first and second ends of the first electric conductor, respectively.