A Two-channel Ultrasonic Flowmeter Based on AlN Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers Arrays with Improved Cross-correlation Method

IF 2.4 4区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering Pub Date : 2023-10-20 DOI:10.1088/1361-6439/ad0307

Linjin Shi, Mengjiao Qu, Dongze Lv, Weiting Liu, Jin Xie

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Abstract

Abstract This paper presents a highly accurate two-channel ultrasonic flowmeter based on AlN piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (PMUTs) to measure flow rate in small-diameter pipes (9.6 mm). The ultrasonic transducers consist of four 10 by 10 PMUTs arrays with resonant frequency of 1 MHz in air. The ultrasonic transducers are excited by continuous sine voltage, and the transmitted and received signals are subjected to cross-correlation operation to obtain the time delay of the ultrasonic wave in the liquid. A dual-channel design of the flowmeter can reduce measurement errors by taking the average value. To reduce errors in the cross-correlation operation, an iterative algorithm is proposed, which effectively improves the measurement accuracy. The flowmeter is evaluated in flow range of 3.5–10 l min −1 , and has a small relative error of 0.7%.

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基于改进互相关法的AlN压电微机械超声换能器阵列双通道超声流量计

提出了一种基于AlN压电微机械超声换能器(PMUTs)的高精度双通道超声流量计，用于测量小直径(9.6 mm)管道的流量。超声波换能器由四个10 × 10的pmut阵列组成，在空气中谐振频率为1mhz。超声波换能器在连续正弦电压的激励下，对收发信号进行互相关运算，得到超声波在液体中的时间延迟。流量计采用双通道设计，通过取平均值来减小测量误差。为了减小互相关运算中的误差，提出了一种迭代算法，有效地提高了测量精度。流量计在3.5-10 l min−1的流量范围内进行评估，相对误差较小，为0.7%。

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来源期刊

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 工程技术-材料科学：综合

CiteScore

4.50

自引率

4.30%

发文量

136

审稿时长

2.8 months

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