Thermal Wave Flow Meter for Molten Salts Flow Measurements
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https://doi.org/10.52825/solarpaces.v3i.2320Keywords:
Molten Salt, Thermal Wave, Time-of-Flight , Flow MeasurementAbstract
Flow measurements in molten salt are. Flow rate measurement using a thermal wave flow meter is a simple and reliable flow rate measurement not limited only to molten salts. The present study focuses on verifying and analyzing the thermal wave flow meter. Several flow meter settings were tested in order to evaluate flow meter accuracy and reliability. The flow meter was verified on a testing loop with water where an electromagnetic flow meter was used for a reference. First tests showed sensitivity of flow meter on heat pulse length and accuracy of peak location searching for a time delay evaluation.
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