A key comparison between seven national metrology institutes in the area of low-pressure gas flow was organized by the Comité International des Poids et Mesures (CIPM) and the Working Group for Fluid Flow. A set of eight critical flow venturis with dedicated, redundant pressure and temperature sensors was used as the transfer standard at flows between 4.4 g/min and 260 g/min. Preliminary testing in the pilot lab determined temperature operating bounds and corresponding uncertainties. The transfer standard contributed a standard uncertainty of <0.026% to the comparison, primarily due to environmental temperature effects, the pressure sensors, and gas properties (the critical flow function and molecular mass of moist air). Redundant measurements by the transfer standard and the star pattern testing were valuable for maintaining low transfer standard uncertainty. The results supported equivalence between the labs with the largest difference between any two participants at any of the flows tested being 0.308%.Main text.
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A safety valve functions to control an upper limit of pressure inside the LNG line of transportation. If the pressure inside the safety valve nozzle exceeds a pre-determined value on the valve sheet which plugs the nozzle, an excess of LNG discharges through the gap between the nozzle exit and valve sheet. In this situation, the forces acting on the valve sheet are gasdynamic forces generated by the discharge of LNG and mechanical forces supported by the spring behind the valve sheet. The flow through the gap is very complicated, involving vortices, flow separation, and shock waves. These affect adversely on the system accompanying with noise and vibration. The present study aims at understanding the flow physics of safety valve. A computational work using the twodimensional, axisymmetric, compressible Navier-Stokes equations is carried out to simulate the gas flow between the nozzle exit and valve sheet, and compared with the theoretical results. It has been found that there exists a distance between nozzle exit and valve sheet in which the thrust coefficient at the valve sheet increases abruptly.
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