The development of simultaneous transducer ultrasonic with dual-transducer to measure flow velocity in the pipe

Abstract

There are still several obstacles to calculating fluid flow rate measurement on custody transfer, such as the distribution of one-phase fluid flow rate, less sTable pressure, and fluid flow rate changes, which are still the main problems in the process of a measuring system. To calculate the flow rate of one phase fluid, there is a method often used, namely transit time. In practice, the transit time works to send the ultrasonic pulse from upstream to downstream, which had to have a delay because the transducer must switch the function of a transducer to become transmitter or receiver. So, this paper proposed a new strategy of measurement multipath ultrasonic flowmeter (UFLW) with a simultaneous transit time method using a dual transmitter and receiver. The simultaneous method is a measuring technique that utilizes a pair of ultrasonic transducers as both trigger and receiver. The first transducer serves as the transmitter, while the second functions as the receiver, capturing the signal at the same time without changing their positions or roles. In order to implement the configuration setup, let’s try to use 3 paths configuration with 6 pairs of transducers, 3 on the upstream and 3 on the downstream. To estimate the flow velocity, let’s use long short-term memory (LSTM), which is one of the recurrent neural networks (RNN) architectures in the deep learning algorithm, and to evaluate the performance, let’s use the Bland-Altman plot and root mean squared error (RMSE) and validation loss of the LSTM model. The result shows RMSE 0.289 from the actual flow velocity, which means an LTSM with simultaneous multipath ultrasonic can reduce the error between prediction and actual measurement