Turbidity measurements are influenced by environmental factors such as water temperature. We designed experiments to study whether water temperature affects in-line turbidity detection and the potential influence mechanism. A turbidity meter installed in-line could self-record data, including the water temperature and turbidity values. From our experimental analysis, we verified the influence of water temperature on the in-line turbidity. Moreover, the temperature coefficient should not be obtained from the experiment directly because the intrinsic impact of in-line turbidity detection does not come from water temperature. Instead, the effect is derived from the optical components’ heat change. When the water temperature change is insignificant, the in-line turbidity deviation caused by the water temperature can be ignored. However, when the water temperature changes substantially, the in-line turbidity sensor should compensate for the temperature drift.
Cavitating flow fields downstream of triangular multiorifice plates with different geometrical parameters were measured by PIV technique, and effects of orifice size, orifice number, and orifice layout on turbulence intensity and Reynolds stress were analyzed. The experimental results showed that the turbulence intensity and Reynolds stress downstream of the different multiorifice plates exhibited sawtooth-like profiles. Decrease in orifice size, increase in orifice number, and taking staggered layout could contribute to intensification of turbulence mixing and shear effects of multiple cavitating jets downstream of the multiorifice plates and thus reaching the expected cavitation effects.
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