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Abstract
In recent years, swirlers have gained increasing attention in gas–liquid flow rates measurement. A power-driven swirler device is designed suitable for low gas–liquid flow rates conditions. Variation characteristics of swirler differential pressure () and radial differential pressure () are investigated under three swirler rotational speeds (0, 300, and 600 rpm). An average reduction of 9 % and 15 % can be seen in fluctuations of and signals, respectively. Wider measurement range can be achieved by increasing the rotational speed, the minimum liquid superficial velocity decreases from 1.53 m/s to 1.02 m/s and the maximum gas volume fraction increases from 41.8 % to 51.9 %. Then, a new gas–liquid flow rate measurement model is established considering the gas–liquid slip and interfacial interaction. As the rotational speed increases from 0 to 600 rpm, the relative errors of liquid and gas mass flow rates decrease from ± 3.4 % to ± 2.7 % and ± 24 % to ± 10 %, respectively.
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