ASME PTC 19.5 PROCEDURES FOR APPLICATION OF LABORATORY CALIBRATIONS OF DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURE FLOW METERS

摘要

Performance Test Codes require primary mass flow accuracies that in many applications require the laboratory-quality calibration of differential pressure meters. It is also true that many performance tests are conducted at Reynolds numbers and flows well above the laboratories' capacities, and sound extrapolation methods had to be developed. Statistical curve-fits and regression analyses by themselves, absent fluid-dynamic foundations, are not valid procedures for extrapolation. The ASME PTC 19.5-2004 discharge coefficient equations presented in this paper are suitable for use and extrapolation of laboratory calibration data.