WO1996023203B1 - Turbine wheel flow measuring transducer - Google Patents
Turbine wheel flow measuring transducerInfo
- Publication number
- WO1996023203B1 WO1996023203B1 PCT/US1996/001029 US9601029W WO9623203B1 WO 1996023203 B1 WO1996023203 B1 WO 1996023203B1 US 9601029 W US9601029 W US 9601029W WO 9623203 B1 WO9623203 B1 WO 9623203B1
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- Prior art keywords
- housing
- light
- disk
- chamber
- light source
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- 239000012530 fluid Substances 0.000 claims abstract 18
- 231100000078 corrosive Toxicity 0.000 claims abstract 14
- 231100001010 corrosive Toxicity 0.000 claims abstract 14
- 239000007789 gas Substances 0.000 claims abstract 12
- 238000005260 corrosion Methods 0.000 claims abstract 11
- 229920003002 synthetic resin Polymers 0.000 claims abstract 4
- 239000000057 synthetic resin Substances 0.000 claims abstract 4
- 238000005259 measurement Methods 0.000 claims abstract 3
- 230000003287 optical Effects 0.000 claims abstract 3
- 239000007788 liquid Substances 0.000 claims 11
- 239000000463 material Substances 0.000 claims 5
- 229910052594 sapphire Inorganic materials 0.000 claims 3
- 239000010980 sapphire Substances 0.000 claims 3
- 230000004308 accommodation Effects 0.000 claims 2
- 239000004020 conductor Substances 0.000 claims 2
- 230000002452 interceptive Effects 0.000 claims 2
- 230000000712 assembly Effects 0.000 claims 1
- 238000010276 construction Methods 0.000 claims 1
- 230000001419 dependent Effects 0.000 claims 1
- 238000005265 energy consumption Methods 0.000 claims 1
- 239000002184 metal Substances 0.000 claims 1
- -1 polytetrafluorethylene Polymers 0.000 claims 1
- 229920001343 polytetrafluoroethylene Polymers 0.000 claims 1
- 230000035945 sensitivity Effects 0.000 claims 1
- XLYOFNOQVPJJNP-UHFFFAOYSA-N water Substances O XLYOFNOQVPJJNP-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 claims 1
Abstract
A turbine wheel flow measuring transducer is provided for measuring low flow rates of corrosive fluids, whether fluid or gases. The transducer has a turbine wheel (12) rotating in a housing fluid chamber (10) at a rate set by the corrosive fluid flowing through the housing. Infrared light (18) from an optical flow measurement circuit passes through spaced holes (14) in the rotating turbine wheel. The amount of light which passes through the wheel indicates flow rate. The housing is made from corrosion resistance synthetic resin (6) which is also translucent to infrared light source. The light source thus need not to be in the housing fluid chamber, materially simplifying the transducer. Further, the turbine wheel is provided with an improved bearing support (20) so that problems of thermal expansion of the housing are overcome.
Claims
1. An apparatus for measuring low flow rates of corrosive fluids at low pressure drops, comprising: a housing comprising housing body halves, said housing having a chamber formed between inner surfaces of said housing body halves; a disk formed of corrosion resistant material with a plurality of holes formed through the disk; mounting means for rotatably mounting the disk in said housing chamber for movement in response to flow of corrosive fluids therethrough; each of said housing bodies halves having a socket formed therein on an outer surface external to said chamber; a thinned section of said housing separating the sockets from the chamber; a light source mounted in said socket in one of said housing body halves for emitting light; a light detector mounted in said socket in the other of said housing body halves aligned with said light source to sense light; said housing body halves being formed of a corrosion resistant synthetic resin translucent to light from said light source so that light passes from said source through one thinned housing section, through said chamber, through said holes in the disk and through the other thinned housing section to said light detector, without encountering any other elements of the apparatus, to sense fluid flow through the apparatus.
2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said flow rates of the corrosive fluids are on the order of twenty milliliters per minute to ten thousand milliliters per minute.
3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said pressure drops of the corrosive fluids are on the order of about twenty inches of water pressure or less for corrosive gases.
4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said pressure drops of the corrosive fluids are on the order of about 5 to 12 psig for corrosive liquids. 17
5. The apparatus of claim 1, further including: said disk having formed therein a plurality of holes formed therethrough for passage of light.
6. The apparatus of claim 1, further including: said disk having reaction turbine blades formed around the entire periphery thereof, each blade having an impact surface thereon for receiving the impact of said gas or liquid entering said chamber.
7. The apparatus of claim 1, further including: nozzle means mounted in said housing in a plane substantially parallel to the plane wherein said disk is disposed for directing substantially the entire flow of the liquid or gas entering said chamber sequentially against individual ones of said impact surfaces at velocities between five to twenty feet per second, thereby presenting the adjacent impact surface, at least the portion of the nozzle means in contact with the corrosive liquid or gas being fabricated from a material resistant to corrosion by said liquid or gas.
8. An apparatus for measuring low flow rates of corrosive fluids at low pressure drops, comprising; a housing comprising housing body halves, said housing having a chamber formed between inner surfaces of said housing body halves; a disk formed of corrosion resistant material rotatably mounted in said housing chamber for movement in response to flow of corrosive fluids therethrough; each of said housing bodies halves having a socket formed therein on an outer surface external to said chamber; an optical flow measurement circuit for forming an electrical signal indicative of fluid flow through said housing, said optical flow measurement circuit comprising; a light source capable of producing light pulses in response to pulsed power mounted in said socket in one of said housing body halves for emitting light pulses; a light detector mounted in said socket in the other of said housing body 18 halves aligned with said light source to sense light; a pulsed power source for energizing said light source at a duty cycle of about ten percent to thereby produce light pulses and to reduce energy consumption.
9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein: said light source emits infrared light at a wavelength of about 0.9 to 1.1 microns.
10. The apparatus of claim 8, further including: said housing body halves being formed of a synthetic resin translucent to light from said light source so that light passes from said source through said disk to said light detector to sense fluid flow through the apparatus.
11. The apparatus of claim 8, further including: said disk having formed therein a plurality of holes formed therethrough for passage of light.
12. A rotatable disk assembly for measuring low corrosive fluid flow rates in a flow meter of the type which includes a housing having a chamber resistant to corrosion by the liquid or gas through which the liquid or gas passes and a means for forming an output proportional to the liquid or gas flow rate, said assembly comprising: a disk formed of material resistant to corrosion by the fluid; a sapphire shaft centrally disposed in said disk; a polished tip at each end of the shaft to support said disk for rotatable movement; and a pair of corrosion resistant low friction bearings each adapted to receive one of said polished sapphire tips; said disk, shaft, bearings and polished tips cooperating to provide low friction rotational movement of the disk and to accommodate temperature induced expansion and contraction of the housing without substantially interfering with the movement of the disk. 19
13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein said housing comprises: a housing comprising housing body halves, said housing having a chamber formed between inner surfaces of said two housing body halves.
14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein. said axle is formed extending outwardly from said disk; and said bearings extend outwardly from said inner surfaces of said housing body halves to engage said axle tips and prevent contact between said disk and said housing body halves during rotational movement between them.
15. The apparatus of claim 12, further including: turbine blades formed around the entire periphery of said disk for receiving substantially the entire flow of liquid or gas entering the chamber in a direction parallel to the plane wherein said disk is disposed.
16. The apparatus of claim 12, further including: a removably mounted nozzle assembly for directing impact of the corrosive liquid or gas sequentially against individual ones of said turbine blades at a controlled location, thereby presenting the adjacent turbine blade, and permitting nozzle assemblies of varying sizes to be mounted in said carriage means to effectively vary the sensitivity of the assembly to liquid or gas flows.
17. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said corrosion resistant synthetic resin is an opaque polytetrafluorethylene.
18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein said light source is a infrared light emitting diode and said light detector is a phototransistor receiver.
19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the thicknesses of the thinned housing section, measured from the socket to the inner surface of the housing, is in the range from about 0.025 inches to 0.050 inches. 20
20. The assembly of claim 12 wherein a first gap is present between said disk and said shaft and a second gap is present between said tips and a bearing surface, the gaps providing the accommodation of temperature induced expansion and contraction.
21. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the light that passes from said source through one thinned housing section, through said chamber, through said holes in the disk and through the other thinned housing section to said light detector is diffuse light.
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STATEMENT UNDER ARTICLE 19m
Independent claim 1 has been amended (a) to explicitly include the inventive element of
thinned housing sections forming the light path between the sockets and the housing chamber and (b) to more fully describe the path taken by the light which is used to sense fluid flow through the apparatus. The use of such "thinned" sections of the translucent housing as a portion of the light path is not taught nor suggested by U.S. patent 5,307,686 to Noren. The Figures of Noren show no housing material in the light path, but instead refer to an undefined "light conductor" (see, for example, column 2, lines 22-23 of Noren). Amended claim 1 recites that no other elements of the apparatus besides those listed in claim 1 , such as light conductors, mirrors or separate corrosion resistant windows, are in the light path. The use of an integral part
of the housing (i.e. the thinned sections) as both the receptacle for the light source and light detectors and as the "window" for the light to pass into and out of the chamber is an inventive approach that greatly simplifies construction of the apparatus. 22
New claims 17-19, dependent on parent claim 1, have been added to specify a preferred embodiment of the invention. The combination of the structural limitations recited in claims 17- 19 results in an apparatus that permits light to be transmitted through a corrosion resistant body that is capable of withstanding working pressures.
Independent claim 8 has been amended to clearly recite that the light source produces light pulses in response to pulsed power. Thus, the light beam of the current application is pulsed before it enters the chamber and encounters the rotating disk. This is an inventive approach in view of U.S. patent 4,969,365 to StrigArd et al. where the light does not become pulsed until after it encounters the rotating disk.
Independent claim 12 has been amended to state that the disk, shaft, tips and bearings cooperate such that expansion and contraction of the housing does not interfere with the movement of the disk. In particular, amended claim 12 recites that the disk, shaft, tips and bearing cooperate "to accommodate temperature induced expansion and contraction of the housing without substantially interfering with the movement of the disk." There is no such teaching nor suggestion in U.S. patent 4,467,660 to McMillan, nor does McMillan suggest the use of a sapphire shaft in place of the hardened metal shaft.
New claim 20 has been added to recite that the accommodation of expansion and contraction is obtained by the use of two gaps; one being between the disk and the shaft, and the other being between the tips and a bearing surface.
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