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Title: A Discussion Of AGA Gas Measurement Report #3
Author: Robert W. Davis
Source: 1962 Southwestern Gas Measurement Short Course (Now called ISHM)
Year Published: 1962
Abstract: In 1903, Thomas R. Weymouth, of the United Natural Gas Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania, started his experiments using sharp, square edged, thin orifices in series with a pitot tube, for comparison purposes of large volume gas measurement. For his tests, Weymouth used flange pressure taps 1 upstream and 1 downstream from the face of the orifice. which were later to become the predominate standard for industry in the United States. He determined his static pressure from the downstream side of the orifice. The series of tests completed in 1911 and 1912 were presented as an A.S.M.E. paper entitled, Measurement of Natural Gas. His tests, superseded by more exact data, based on another ten year study, provided a valuable basis for metering natural gas by orifices, using the developed empirical coefficient data, correlated with the ratio of the orifice diameter to pipe diameter. This eliminated the necessity of calibrating each individual orifice plate, The total test results of Weymouth and developed flow coefficients were published as part of the A.G.A. Gas Measurement Committee Report No. 2, in 1935

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