Microwave Mass Flow Meter for Industrial Applications based on a Lefthanded Transmission Line Resonator

Author

Puentes, Margarita ; Penirschke, Andreas ; Schüssler, Martin ; Jakoby, Rolf

Author_Institution

Wireless Commun./Microwave Eng., Tech. Univ. Darmstadt, Darmstadt

fYear

2009

fDate

16-18 March 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A particulates mass flow meter has been developed using a composite right/left-handed transmission line resonator. The presented sensor principle promises the possibility to design precise particulate solids mass flow meter with moderate costs. The autocorrelation function is applied to the CRLH-resonator in order to detect the velocity information and the material density from a single measurement. The areas of application of these sensors are gas/solids, gas/liquid and liquid/solids flows in various industrial applications.

Keywords

flow measurement; flowmeters; gas sensors; microwave measurement; resonators; two-phase flow; composite transmission line resonator; gas-liquid flows; gas-solid flows; lefthanded transmission line resonator; liquid-solid flows; material density; microwave mass flow meter; particulates mass flow meter; Capacitors; Fluid flow measurement; Frequency; Microwave sensors; Microwave theory and techniques; Pipelines; Power transmission lines; Radar detection; Solids; Transmission lines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2009 German

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-3-9812668-0-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-3-8007-3150-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GEMIC.2009.4815855

Filename

4815855