Method of making average mass flow velocity measurements employi

Details Method of making average mass flow velocity measurements employi Method of making average mass flow velocity measurements employi

1994-08-22

1995-08-08

Chilcot, Jr., Richard E.

Measuring and testing

Volume or rate of flow

Thermal type

G01F 168

Patent

active

054388660

ABSTRACT:
An RTD (resistance temperature sensor or detector) sensing device which is a long, thin, unitary device adapted to be distributed across an extended field for the continuous, uninterrupted sensing or interrogation of such field, avoiding the inaccuracy, unreliability, and excessive expense of conventional "point" RTD and thermocouple sensors currently employed for this purpose. According to the invention, a very long, thin, ductile protective metal outer sheath houses a coextensive body of insulation material, which in turn supports and electrically insulates one or more coextensive RTD filaments and in most forms of the invention one or more heater filaments. Distributed RTDs of the invention may, along their lengths, have continuous linear function sensitivity, continuous variable function sensitivity, or step function sensitivity. Distributed RTDs of the invention have particular utility for gauging liquid level, measuring average mass flow velocity of fluids in large ducts, and sensing the average temperature of an extended nonisothermal field.

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