Performance evaluation of an indigenously designed copper (U) tube Coriolis mass flow sensors

This paper describes an experimental study carried out for three different sets of U tube configurations made of copper for an indigenously developed setup of Coriolis mass flow sensor integrated with virtual instrumentation. The setup has been installed on an especially designed and constructed foundation using Passive Vibration Isolation technique. The location of sensors, drive frequency and L/d ratio were found to be influencing design parameters on the performance. In the present study water has been used as fluid for flow measurement. The setup was calibrated for the experimentally obtained result indicates a linear relationship between measured time lag and mass flow rate. The results also indicates that for the undertaken experimental conditions the case C is the optimum configuration from the point of view of minimum percentage of error in calibrated mass flow rate.