ZHANG Shaozhi, JIANG Qing, BAI Chongyan, et al. Flow rate measurement based upon temperature cross-correlation[J]. CIESC Journal, 2014, (z2): 124-128.
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ZHANG Shaozhi, JIANG Qing, BAI Chongyan, et al. Flow rate measurement based upon temperature cross-correlation[J]. CIESC Journal, 2014, (z2): 124-128.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0438-1157.2014.z2.019.
Flow rate measurement based upon temperature cross-correlation
Preliminary experiments were carried out to study a non-intrusive method for measuring water flow rate based upon temperature cross-correlation. Through monitoring two temperature points in an insulated pipe
the data were analyzed with cross-correlation algorithm using Matlab software
and the delay time between the two points was estimated
thus the flow velocity and rate were obtained. The results showed that the estimated flow rate could agree with the measured value within an error of 10% if the minimum of the sum of square of the temperature differences was adopted as the optimization target. If combined with wireless temperature sensor network
the application of flow rate measurement based upon temperature cross-correlation may be anticipated in HVAC engineering.