Electromagnetic Flow Meter Efficiency

A study of electromagnetic flow meter is presented in the paper. Comparison has been made between the analytical and the numerical results by the use of FEM numerical analysis (Quick Field 5.6) for determining polarization voltage through the circle cross section of the polarization transducer. Exciting and geometrical parameters increasing its effectiveness has been examined. The aim is to obtain maximal output signal. The investigations include different variants of the magnetic flux density distribution around the tube: homogeneous field of magnitude Bm, linear distribution with maximal value Bm and trapezium distribution conserving the same exciting magnetic energy as the homogeneous field.

• Andrey D. Andreev
• Ilona I. Iatcheva
• Dimitar N. Karastoyanov
• Rumena D. Stancheva

• Effectiveness
• electromagnetic flow meter
• finite element method
• polarization voltage.

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