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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1976
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1972
Gerald Lance Schlatter, Boulder, CO (US);
Charles Eveleigh Miller, Boulder, CO (US);
International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A net oil computer including a vibration densitometer and a turbine flowmeter. The flowmeter produces output pulses at a frequency directly proportional to the rate of volume flow through a pipeline. The output of the flowmeter is impressed upon the pole of a single pole, double throw electronic switch. One switch contact is connected to an indicator through a divider, a driver amplifier and a counter. The other contact is also connected to an indicator through a divider, a driver amplifier and a counter. The switch is operated by a gate generator connected from the densitometer. The gate generator produces an output pulse of a pulse width directly proportional to the percent of oil or water in the pipeline. A temperature probe is inserted in the line to vary the pulse width in accordance with oil temperature. The densitometer has an improved magnetostrictive drive which is controlled to have a phase proper for maximum resonance. The densitometer is also provided with a self-start circuit to find resonance automatically. A synchronous detector detects resonance and automatically turns the self-start circuit off.