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Title: Applications In Liquid Measurement Using Clamp-On Ultrasonic Technology
Author: Sid Douglass
Source: 2011 International School of Hydrocarbon Measurement
Year Published: 2011
Abstract: custody transfer measurement by Ultrasonic Meters with the publication of Chapter 5.8 in 2002 the fact remains that ultrasonic technology has been around for many years. Working for Mid-Valley Pipeline in 1982 I can remember my first encounter with an Ultrasonic meter or in this case a densitometer. Yes the densitometer did work and did what it was supposed to do. The one problem however was the densitometer was an insert ultrasonic instrument and Mid-Valley was a crude oil pipeline. Simply put, in the winter time when the paraffin really began forming on the pipe wall and scrappers were being run every week on the north end, it was noticed that the densitometers, the insert ultrasonic ones, started having problems. After waiting 2 or 3 days to see if the problem would correct itself, we often found ourselves scheduling maintenance time to pull the densitometer and clean the sensing element. Granted it has been a few years but I remember thinking this was not bad technology, it just was not applied as well as it should have been. This introduction was started however talking about this new technology called ultrasonic and yet my first experience with it was in 1982, almost 30 years ago. Well, as one might suspect it gets one to thinking about ultrasonic technology and when it might have first been proposed for the measurement of flow in pipes. Some may not believe it but the first patent issued I know of was in the late 1800s in Germany. While it is safe to assume no meters were made at that time using this new principle it can not be denied the principle existed then.

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