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Chemical Process Instrumentation: Pressure Measurement: Moderate and High Pressure Measuring Instruments

1) The document discusses various pressure measurement instruments including piston type dead weight pressure gauges, ring balance manometers, and bell type gauges. 2) It provides examples of using mercury well manometers and inclined manometers to calculate pressure values based on fluid properties and dimensional measurements. 3) Specifically, it shows calculations for determining the diameter of one chamber of a mercury well manometer given the motion and diameter of the other chamber, and calculating the pressure in an inclined manometer given the pressures and fluid properties in two connected pipes.

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Chemical Process Instrumentation: Pressure Measurement: Moderate and High Pressure Measuring Instruments

1) The document discusses various pressure measurement instruments including piston type dead weight pressure gauges, ring balance manometers, and bell type gauges. 2) It provides examples of using mercury well manometers and inclined manometers to calculate pressure values based on fluid properties and dimensional measurements. 3) Specifically, it shows calculations for determining the diameter of one chamber of a mercury well manometer given the motion and diameter of the other chamber, and calculating the pressure in an inclined manometer given the pressures and fluid properties in two connected pipes.

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CHEMICAL PROCESS INSTRUMENTATION

Pressure Measurement: Moderate and High


Pressure Measuring Instruments
(WEEK – 5: LECTURE - 22)

Dr. Debasis Sarkar


Department of Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

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Pressure Measurement

Today’s Topic:

 Piston type (Dead weight pressure gage), Ring balance,


Bell type gage
 Numerical examples on manometer

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Dead Weight Pressure Gage
1. Gage is attached to the stem (B).
A 2. Place a weight on vertical piston (A).
3. Move the adjusting piston C to insure
B
that the weight and piston are
supported by oil and it is floating freely.
5. Record the gage reading and the
weight.
C 6. Repeat steps 2 through 5 for
increasing and decreasing order of
weights.

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Ring Balance Manometer
Split and Sealed P1
• A tube bent into a ring is supported at the center by
a pivot.
• The tubular chamber is divided into two parts by
splitting, sealing, and filling with a suitable light
liquid such as kerosene or paraffin oil for isolating
the two pressures. This liquid is called sealing liquid.
P1 -P2  2wR sin  / ( d)
Paraffin

α = cross-sectional area of the tube


d = ring diameter
NOTE: The equation does not include any property w
related to sealing liquid.

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Bell Type Manometer
Bell type manometer consists
of an inverted container
immersed in a sealing liquid.
Sealing liquid forms two
chambers. The pressure to be
measured is applied to the
inside of the bell, the motion
of which is opposed by a
restricting spring . Bell type differential-
pressure gage
Bell type pressure gage In differential pressure gage, pressures are applied to both
the outside and the inside of the bell.

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Well Type Manometer
Problem-1
A mercury well manometer is to have a float in A2 30 kN/m2
the right-hand chamber. An electrochemical
h2=?
transducer is used to measure the motion of the
fluid. The float motion is 7 mm for a gauge A1
pressure of 30 kN/m2. If the diameter of the float
chamber is 50 mm, what is the required diameter h1 =7 mm
for the left-hand chamber? For mercury, density ρ
= 13600 kg/m3. Assume that the other end of the
manometer is open to the atmosphere.

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Manometer
Solution
At the reference line, 30000   gh1   gh2
  g  h1  h2   90000
A2
 13600(9.81)  0.007  h2   30000
h2 30 kN/m2
 h2  0.218 m
We have, h1 A1  h2 A2 A1
   
 0.007  D12   0.218  D22  h1
4  4 
 2  
 0.007   0.05   0.218  D22 
4  4 
 D2  8.959 103 m =8.959 mm

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Problem-2
Manometer
Consider the inclined manometer containing mercury as shown in the figure. Pipe
A has water flowing through it, and oil is flowing in pipe B. The pressure in pipe A
is 10 kPa. Find the pressure in pipe B.

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Manometer
Solution
We have,
PA=10000 Pa; ρA=1000 kg/m3; ρB=870 kg/m3;
ρM=13600 kg/m3; hm = (0.09)sin 40o

PA   A ghA  PB   B ghB   m ghm


10000  1000(9.81)(0.07)  PB  (870)(9.81)0.1  13600(9.81)(0.09) sin 40o

PB  886.33 Pa

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Barometer
Problem-3
The height of the mercury barometer is h when Vacuum
the atmospheric pressure is 101325 Pa. Find the hA
pressure at point A. A
h
Solution h 2h/3

Patm = hρg = 101325 Pa


hA = h – (2h/3) = h/3

PA = (h/3)ρg = hρg/3 = 101325/3 = 33775 Pa

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