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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 1978
Filed:
Jun. 25, 1976
Robert W Allington, Lincoln, NB (US);
Instrumentation Specialties Company, Lincoln, NB (US);
Abstract
To reduce errors in a measuring instrument caused by temperature effects from changes in the flow rate of fluids passing through the instrument, the flow of heat is adjusted to balance the flow-rate-dependent temperature increases against the flow-rate-dependent temperature decreases that occur with the same change in flow rate in each flow path. Some of the techniques for adjusting the flow of heat are: (1) controlling the temperature of the fluid at the inlet of the instrument with one heat exchanger and the temperature of the body of the instrument with another heat exchanger; (2) controlling the temperature of the walls of the instrument with a heating coil; and (3) emitting heat within the flow path from a transducer. A typical measuring instrument in which such errors are reduced is a refractometer used to measure characteristics of a fluid flowing through a column.