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FLOW MEASUREMENT AND INSTRUMENTATION
Volume 79, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2021.101932
Keywords
Ultrasonic gas flowmeter; Digital signal processing method; Feature point; Starting point; Echo signal; Echo energy signal; TOF
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This paper systematically reviews signal processing methods for ultrasonic gas flowmeters, analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of each method and proposing improvement ideas and directions for further research in response to issues such as energy attenuation and low SNR.
Ultrasonic gas flowmeters (UGFM) are extensively used in petroleum, chemical, natural gas and other fields because of their distinctive measurement advantages. As the core technology of the UGFM, digital signal processing technology determines its measurement accuracy and stability. This paper systematically reviews the signal processing methods for measuring the TOF (time of flight) based on the principle of time difference method. According to the stability of the feature information extracted by different digital signal processing methods, the advantages and disadvantages of each method are analyzed. Aiming at the problems of serious energy attenuation, weak echo signal amplitude, and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) when ultrasonic signal propagate in the gas, different signal processing methods are evaluated and compared from the aspects of calculation accuracy, response speed, anti-interference ability and sensitivity to parameter changes. Finally, some improvement ideas and directions for further research are proposed according to the analysis results.
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