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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 1994
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Samuel O Colgate, Gainesville, FL (US);
Kenneth C McGill, Gainesville, FL (US);
Assignee:
University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Alachua, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73 232 ; 73 2401 ; 73 2405 ; 73 3001 ; 73 3104 ;
Abstract
A method of measuring the flow and composition of a fluid or mixture of fluids through a system by determining the temperature, pressure and speed of sound in the fluid or mixture of fluids in the system and calculating the flow, molar density and average molecular weight of the fluid from the equation: ##EQU1## wherein: ##EQU2## c=speed of sound P=pressure of the fluid