Investigation of the performance of an orifice plate flowmeter under transient conditions for liquid fuelsShow others and affiliations
2028 (English)In: Measurement: Sensors, ISSN 2665-9174, Vol. 38, article id 101544Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The need for carbon dioxide reduction and accurate metering of fuel flows have led environmental policies to a new perspective. The application of numerical investigation could be useful to predict the behaviour of meters for using new green fuels, avoiding expensive experimental campaigns. This paper adopts the Eulerian approach to numerically analyse the transient, isothermal, and turbulent flow across an orifice plate flowmeter. Numerical results are validated against an experimental campaign, conducted by the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE). The validated numerical model is adopted to evaluate the performance of the flowmeter in the case of employing two different innovative fuels (biodiesel). The developed numerical tool has also been applied to the simulation of a dynamic inlet flow rate. The obtained results demonstrate the capability of the numerical model to predict the flow rate for the studied scenarios, as well as the difficulties of the investigated meter in performing under dynamic boundary conditions.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier Ltd , 2028. Vol. 38, article id 101544
Keywords [en]
Computational fluid dynamics; Flowmeters; Orifices; Residual fuels; Carbon dioxide reduction; Computational fluid; Experimental campaign; Fluid-dynamics; Fuel-flow; Orifice plate; Parametric analysis; Performance; SAFEST project; Transient conditions; Turbulent flow
National Category
Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-77987DOI: 10.1016/j.measen.2024.101544Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85215382369OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-77987DiVA, id: diva2:1941275
Note
This paper has been developed in the framework of the EMPIR JRP 20IND13 SAFEST, funded by the EMPIR programme co-financed by the Participating States and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
2025-02-282025-02-282025-09-26Bibliographically approved