Coriolis densimeter having substantially increased noise...

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G01N 9/32 (2006.01) G01N 9/00 (2006.01)

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CA 2157516

Apparatus and accompany- ing methods for use therein for a Coriolis mass flow rate meter (5) which is substantially immune to noise, and more particularly, to such a meter that is substantially unaffected by noise that occurs at substantially any frequency differ- ent from a fundamental frequency at which the flow tube(s) (130, 130') in the meter vibrates. Specifically, the meter (5) relies on measuring mass flow rule by determining the phase difference that occurs be- tween real and imaginary compo- nents or the discrete fourier trans- form (DFT) or both the left and right velocity sensor waveforms evaluated at the fundamental fre- quency at which the flow tubes vi- brate. The fundamental frequency is located, during an initialization operation, by providing a power spectrum, determined through use of the DFT, of one of the sensor signals and then selecting that frequency at which the magnitude of the power spec- trum reaches a maximum value. In addition, the frequency at which both velocity sensor signals are sampled is readjusted in re- sponse to any change in the phase of one of the velocity sensor signals, as transformed using the DFT, in order to assure that the sampling frequency always remains substantially equal to a pre-defined integer multiple or the fundamental frequency. Further- more, the meter, through use of the numerical value of any such phase change, also provides a density indication which is also substantially immune to such noise.

L'invention est constituée par un débitmètre massique à effet de Coriolis (5) qui est substantiellement insensible au bruit et plus particulièrement au bruit à une fréquence différente de la fréquence de vibration fondamentale des tubes de circulation (130, 130') internes de l'appareil. Celui-ci mesure le débit en déterminant la différence de phase entre les composantes réelle et imaginaire de la transformée de Fourier discrète (TFD) des formes d'ondes des capteurs de vitesse gauche et droit évaluées à la fréquence de vibration fondamentale du tube. Cette fréquence fondamentale est déterminée au cours d'une opération d'initialisation à partir du spectre de fréquence établi par la TFD de l'un des signaux des capteurs, puis en choisissant la fréquence à laquelle la puissance est maximale dans le spectre. Par ailleurs, la fréquence à laquelle les deux signaux des capteurs de vitesse sont échantillonnés est réajustée en réaction à toute variation de phase dans l'un des signaux des capteurs de vitesse transformé afin que la fréquence d'échantillonnage reste essentiellement égale à la fréquence fondamentale ou à l'un de ses multiples entiers prédéfinis. Finalement, en utilisant la valeur numérique de ces variations de phase, le débitmètre indique également la densité de façon essentiellement insensible au bruit.

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