Controlling thermal power in the feed water line of a power plant presupposes both accurate flow and temperature measurement. In this application the temperature measurement is usually a single Pt-100. This results in a measurement error of several kelvin. In this study we have investigated two different sensors based on the speed of sound (SoS) in the flowing medium for measuring the average temperature across a flow pipe cross-section. This is a task within the on-going European research project called ENG-06. The two SoS-based temperature measuring sensors were investigated under laboratory conditions. Investigations were done using both homogenous and non-homogenous temperature distributions with temperature differences up to 25 K. In addition the influence of pressure (50-200 kPa) and flow rates (0.5-2 m/s) on the SoS devices were also investigated. Our results show that the SoS-based temperature principle is working. Furthermore, depending on the measurement conditions a SoS temperature measurement device significantly can reduce the deviation to the reference sensor compared with a single Pt-100 sensor. Relative reductions in the deviation to the reference of 20-85 % were possible to achieve. This opens for the possibility of increasing the energy efficiency in power plants as aimed for in the ENG-06 project.
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11 September 2013
TEMPERATURE: ITS MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL IN SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, VOLUME 8: Proceedings of the Ninth International Temperature Symposium
19–23 March 2012
Los Angeles, California, USA
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September 11 2013
A speed of sound based feed water temperature sensor
P. Klason;
P. Klason
SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, SE-501 15 Boras,
Sweden
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M. Holmsten;
M. Holmsten
SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, SE-501 15 Boras,
Sweden
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A. Andersson;
A. Andersson
SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, SE-501 15 Boras,
Sweden
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P. Lau;
P. Lau
SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, SE-501 15 Boras,
Sweden
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G. J. P. Kok
G. J. P. Kok
VSL, Delft,
Netherlands
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AIP Conf. Proc. 1552, 925–930 (2013)
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P. Klason, M. Holmsten, A. Andersson, P. Lau, G. J. P. Kok; A speed of sound based feed water temperature sensor. AIP Conf. Proc. 11 September 2013; 1552 (1): 925–930. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4819668
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