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Sensors - Design principles

Authors: Yves PARMANTIER, Frédéric KRATZ

Publication date: September 10, 2009, Review date: March 15, 2022

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8. Fluid flow sensors and meters

The measurement principles are as follows:

  • differential pressure flowmeters or flowmeters with depressurizing elements (figure 26 ): these systems are standardized;

  • Pitot probe flow measurement (figure 27 );

  • turbine flowmeter (figure 28 );

  • paddle-wheel flowmeter (figure 29 ), with external displacement measurement;

  • vortex flowmeter (figure

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