Industrial Instrumentation Tutorial 5 - Flow Measurement -3 - Variable Area Flow Meter, Rotameter

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In this tutorial on Industrial Instrumentation, we will discuss the topic of variable area flow meter and the two types of it, viz. Rota meter, and piston type flow meter.
We will cover the working principle, and numerical procedure to measure the flow rate and also discuss the advantages and the disadvantages of these devices.

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https://instrumentationtools.com/
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Chapter 11: Flow Measurement, “Industrial Instrumentation and Control” by S K Singh. Tata McGraw Hill, 3rd Edition. 2009, New Delhi. ISBN-13: 978-0-07-026222-5.
Chapter 12: Flow Measurement, “Instrumentation, Measurement and Analysis”. 2nd Edition, B C Nakra, K K Chaudhry, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, 2005. ISBN: 0-07-048296-9.
Chapter 7: Flowmeter, “Fundamentals of Industrial Instrumentation”, 1st Edition, Alok Barua, Wiley India Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi, 2011. ISBN: 978-81-265-2882-0.
Chapter 5: Flow Measurement, “Principles of Industrial Instrumentation”, 2nd Edition. D. Patranabis, Tata McGaw-Hill, New Delhi, 2004. ISBN: 0-07-462334-6.