Remote measurement of liquid flow using turbine and fiber optic techniques

Mahfoozur Rehman; Chew Eong Loon; Amir Abu-al-aish; Mohd Rizal Arshad

doi:10.1016/j.ymssp.2011.01.001

Remote measurement of liquid flow using turbine and fiber optic techniques

Mahfoozur Rehman^*, Chew Eong Loon, Amir Abu-al-aish, Mohd Rizal Arshad

^*Corresponding author for this work

Universiti Sains Malaysia

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Abstract

This paper deals with the development of a low cost, intelligent liquid flow measuring system, based on fiber optic technology. Fiber optic sensing as well as communication is used to measure flow, at a distance, using basic turbine flow meter. The blades of the turbine meter are used to modulate the light falling on it. The frequency of the pulses generated depends on the number of blades and is measured by the microcontroller and displayed on the hyper terminal. With proper calibration, relationship between output frequency and flow rate is appreciably linear and accuracy is ±0.4%.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1661-1666
Number of pages	6
Journal	Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
Volume	25
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2011.01.001
Publication status	Published - Jul 2011
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Fiber optics
Microcontroller based systems
Sensors
Turbine flow meter

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