L. Prysyazhnyuk, I. Petryshyn, B. Dolishnii, L. Ropyak
{"title":"A portable calorimeter for measuring the calorific value of natural gas","authors":"L. Prysyazhnyuk, I. Petryshyn, B. Dolishnii, L. Ropyak","doi":"10.24027/2306-7039.3.2021.241253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24027/2306-7039.3.2021.241253","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract \u0000Natural gas quality assessment is a relevant issue. A critical analysis of calorimeter designs for measuring the calorific value of natural gas was carried out. The most common methods for determining the calorific value of natural gas are as follows: direct by gas calorimeters; indirect by gas chromatographs; indirect, based on correlations. The advantages of isoperibolic calorimeters of measuring calorific value of natural gas directly in the consumer’s conditions are substantiated. The design of a portable calorimeter containing a thermostated shell, calorimetric tank, Peltier element with tank, circulating pump, gas burner, thermostat systems, metered supply of natural gas and air, fuel ignition, sensors, combustion analyzer and control and measurement unit, was developed. The geometric dimensions of the calorimetric tank are optimized, materials and technologies of manufacturing parts are specified. The metrological analysis of the developed portable calorimeter was carried out. A method for measuring the calorific value of natural gas directly in the conditions of household consumers and transport enterprises was developed. The results of testing the prototype calorimeter in the laboratory confirmed its high performance and metrological characteristics, and the deviation of the measurement of the calorific value of natural gas from that determined using a gas chromatograph was 0.6%.","PeriodicalId":40775,"journal":{"name":"Ukrainian Metrological Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41885768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Орест Євгенович Середюк, Олександр Криницький, Василь Романів, Деніс Середюк, Анна Григорівна Винничук
{"title":"Qualimetric assessment of metrological characteristics of household gas meters during periodic verification","authors":"Орест Євгенович Середюк, Олександр Криницький, Василь Романів, Деніс Середюк, Анна Григорівна Винничук","doi":"10.24027/2306-7039.2.2021.236086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24027/2306-7039.2.2021.236086","url":null,"abstract":"Informative parameters for statistical estimation of operational error of SAMGAS, METRIX, PREMAGAS household gas meters (HGM) are formulated. These are the values of the measured volume during the verification period of operation and the experimentally determined error of the meter during operation at three normalized flow rates: minimum, maximum and 20% of the maximum. \u0000Six ranges of variation of the HGM error at the minimum flow rate were selected to form statistical samples of meters. According to the proposed algorithm, the change in the weighted average HGM error for three normalized flow rates from the measured volume is quantified, taking into account the number of HGMs and their error ranges. It is proposed to apply the concept of generalized weighted average error of HGM, which reflects the operational error of HGMs during their operation in the entire range of consumption when measuring gas volumes up to 60 thousand cubic meters.","PeriodicalId":40775,"journal":{"name":"Ukrainian Metrological Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49008778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Petryshyn, D. Serediuk, Yuriy Pelikan, Oleksandr Bas, Roman Manulyak
{"title":"Procedure of hydrogen and mixture impact assessment on the changes of mechanical parameters and errors of household gas meters","authors":"I. Petryshyn, D. Serediuk, Yuriy Pelikan, Oleksandr Bas, Roman Manulyak","doi":"10.24027/2306-7039.2.2021.236083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24027/2306-7039.2.2021.236083","url":null,"abstract":"The article describes the method of conducting representative research to determine the effect of pure gaseous hydrogen and a mixture of hydrogen and natural gas (methane) on the performance and metrological characteristics of household gas meters. The experimental research has been carried out in two stages. 84 membrane and rotary meters have been selected for research. The main aspect of the need for such research is the safety of meters. Before the start of the tests and after each stage, the metrological characteristics of all gas meters on the reference prover are determined. At the first stage, a set of static tests is performed, according to which the internal and external short-term and long-term (42 days) tightness of gas meters are checked. A prototype of the installation layout has been developed to conduct experiments on determining the tightness. The second stage is to conduct a dynamic series of tests. Gas meters are assembled according to the developed scheme and installed for testing on the model of the gas distribution network system. It is recommended to use a drum-type meter as a reference gas meter. The criterion for determining the effect of hydrogen and gas meter is the established change in metrological characteristics after the study.","PeriodicalId":40775,"journal":{"name":"Ukrainian Metrological Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45187250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
О. В. Заболотний, Віталій Заболотний, Микола Дмитрович Кошовий
{"title":"Synthesis of a linear static function for grain moisture meter with capacitive sensors","authors":"О. В. Заболотний, Віталій Заболотний, Микола Дмитрович Кошовий","doi":"10.24027/2306-7039.2.2021.236098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24027/2306-7039.2.2021.236098","url":null,"abstract":"Moisture content is a grain quality factor, a parameter which changes during the processes of storage and processing and determines consumer properties of different food products. OIML organization in its international recommendation OIML R59 “Moisture Meters for Cereal Grain and Oilseeds” restricts maximal permissible value of moisture meters uncertainty to not more than 3% of relative full scale error. Main task of the research is in receiving linear static function for the grain moisture meter with four capacitive sensors. Method of Least Squares and general linear regression instruments had been used for that purpose. Analyzing the graphs of modified static function for different moist substances it was possible to say that it happened to be far more effective than initial static function and the static function received from a first-order polynomial after the LS method implementation. Root mean estimator was calculated for initial static function, the static function received with the LS method and static function, received after general linear regression implementation as an integral difference between nominal and calculated values of moisture content. Corresponding root mean estimator values were 1.3062%, 1.1616% and 0.4158%, that proves the effectiveness of a static function modified with the general linear regression instruments.\u0000Keywords: moisture content measurement; capacitive moisture meter; reference channel; capacitive sensor; linear static function","PeriodicalId":40775,"journal":{"name":"Ukrainian Metrological Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43922744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ігор Петрович Захаров, Олеся Анатоліївна Боцюра, Валерій Семеніхін
{"title":"Method of kurtosis in estimating the measurement uncertainty during calibration of the electrical resistance measures using a potentiometer","authors":"Ігор Петрович Захаров, Олеся Анатоліївна Боцюра, Валерій Семеніхін","doi":"10.24027/2306-7039.2.2021.236078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24027/2306-7039.2.2021.236078","url":null,"abstract":"Calibration of electrical resistance measures is considered by the indirect method, which is realized through measuring the voltage drop across the series-connected reference and calibrated resistors. The biases of the estimates of the measurand and the combined standard uncertainty due to the nonlinearity of the measurement model were calculated. The distribution laws of the input quantities in the calculation of the expanded uncertainty were taken into account by the kurtosis method. An example of measurement uncertainty evaluating during calibration of single-size electrical resistance measure R331 with a nominal resistance of 1000 Ω by comparing its value using a potentiometer R345 with the value of the calibrated reference standard is considered. Estimates of the measurand and its standard and expanded uncertainties obtained using the proposed method showed good agreement with the estimates obtained using the Monte Carlo method.","PeriodicalId":40775,"journal":{"name":"Ukrainian Metrological Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43620537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The mathematical model of the system-oriented measuring instrument","authors":"Олег Величко, Олег Грабовський","doi":"10.24027/2306-7039.2.2021.236057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24027/2306-7039.2.2021.236057","url":null,"abstract":"Modern measuring instruments (MIs) are designed to obtain complete and reliable measuring information. To perform this important function, MIs must be of appropriate quality and must be reliably assessed. Using mathematical models simulate the operation of technical systems in order to decide on the optimization of its characteristics. As a result of the analysis of the model, the specific features of the studied processes and certain quantitative regularities are established. This allows to predict the processes in the system over time and determine their quantitative characteristics. \u0000The article presents the results of mathematical modeling of system-oriented measuring instruments as a system and its software as a subsystem using the apparatus of general systems theory. Such models with its graphical interpretation allow obtaining the necessary and useful information about the properties of the MIs as a technical system. The performed modeling makes it possible to describe the functioning of the MIs and to obtain a certain assessment of quality indicators.","PeriodicalId":40775,"journal":{"name":"Ukrainian Metrological Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43684209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reliable instrumental metering of natural gas is the key to Ukraine’s energy independence","authors":"Аліна Коваленко","doi":"10.24027/2306-7039.2.2021.236084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24027/2306-7039.2.2021.236084","url":null,"abstract":"By virtue of geographical and historic factors, Ukraine has been playing an important role in oil and natural gas deliveries to European energy markets. Such status is basically attributed to the fact that West and Central European countries, while being rather big consumers of natural hydrocarbons, have shortage in their own energy resources. \u0000On the other hand, major natural gas and oil reserves are concentrated in the Russian Federation, Caspian region and the Gulf area. Currently Ukraine has become a major juncture in the transit of gas and oil from Russia and Kazakhstan to European markets. The expected increase in consumption of natural hydrocarbon resources, as well as their uneven distribution make Ukraine, owing to its suitable geographical location and the developed gas and oil network, an “energy bridge” between the exporting countries and consumers in the industrialized Europe. \u0000In the article the author considers the modern gas supply system of Ukraine. The author carried out a study on the technical feasibility of calibration of flow meters on the environment of natural gas under pressure. Currently in Ukraine calibration is performed only in the air. This does not make it possible to reduce the error in the instrumentation of natural gas. Given the volume of natural gas consumption in the country (about 20 billion m3/year), this leads to huge non-production losses, negative impact on economic performance and inflated cost for end users. The European experience was analyzed: PTB, DNV, PIGSAR, SICK, INOTECH. Modernization of the gas industry of Ukraine is proposed.","PeriodicalId":40775,"journal":{"name":"Ukrainian Metrological Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48094500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"About continuity and discreteness of quantities: examples from physics and metrology","authors":"F. Pavese","doi":"10.24027/2306-7039.2.2021.236054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24027/2306-7039.2.2021.236054","url":null,"abstract":"The VIM3 defines a quantity as a “property of a phenomenon, body, or substance”, leaving the characteristics of the term ‘quantity’, related to the chosen characteristics of the relevant properties. The question is: does necessarily a property also necessarily refer to the possible granularity of a phenomenon, body, or substance?\u0000Take, for example, for the quantity “mass”: it does not always have to take into account whether or not a phenomenon, body, or substance is subdivided into discrete entities? It depends of the frame of the analysis and also on the chosen measurement unit. In other cases, like temperature, the macroscopic properties are related to the statistical properties of granular substances like atoms and molecules are, so the present meaning of ‘temperature’ is generally lost at the numerical level where the entity’s statistics become meaningless. Yet another case is quantum physics. The paper illustrates the issue and possible solutions under development.\u0000Keywords: continuous; granular; quantity; magnitude; quanta; integer number; real number; counting; function","PeriodicalId":40775,"journal":{"name":"Ukrainian Metrological Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42107606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Neyezhmakov, A. Prokopov, Tatiana Panasenko, A. Shloma
{"title":"Comparative analysis of the accuracy requirements of the equipment for determining the mean integral refractive index of air using different realizations of the gradient method","authors":"P. Neyezhmakov, A. Prokopov, Tatiana Panasenko, A. Shloma","doi":"10.24027/2306-7039.2.2021.236075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24027/2306-7039.2.2021.236075","url":null,"abstract":"The speed of propagation of electromagnetic waves in the Earth’s atmosphere differs from the speed of their propagation in a vacuum, which is one of the main factors that have a significant impact on the accuracy of long distance measurement. This influence is taken into account in long distance measurement with the correction for the mean integral group refractive index of air, which depends on such meteorological parameters as temperature, atmospheric pressure and relative air humidity.\u0000The purpose of this work is to compare the accuracy requirements for equipment designed to measure temperature, pressure, and relative humidity required to determine the above correction by the gradient method using the Euler-Maclaurin quadrature formula (hereafter, the Euler-Maclaurin method) and the formula based on Hermite interpolation polynomials (hereafter, the Hermite method). The requirements for the uncertainty of measurements carried out with the sensors of meteorological parameters, allowing to find the mean integral group refractive index of air, providing length measurements of the baselines of up to 5 km with an expanded uncertainty of not more than 1 mm, are established.\u0000Keywords: atmosphere; mean integral group refractive index of air; laser long distance measurement","PeriodicalId":40775,"journal":{"name":"Ukrainian Metrological Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46814810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Immersion ultrasonic transducers","authors":"Ортаголі Хакімов","doi":"10.24027/2306-7039.2.2021.236076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24027/2306-7039.2.2021.236076","url":null,"abstract":"The principles of operation and design of immersion ultrasonic transducers developed by the authors for excitation and reception of elastic vibrations in moving filament-like and plane-parallel materials, in particular, polymer fibbers and films, with an adjustable angle of input (reception) of probing signals into moving controlled object – polymer fibbers and films at normal and high temperatures. \u0000The technical characteristics of the installation are given in which the converters developed by us are used, namely, sounding base (distance from the emitter to the receivers), the duration of the probing pulses, the frequency of filling and the duration of the probing pulses, the speed of the controlled object, the combined standard measurement uncertainties of the difference Δt of the propagation times of ultrasonic waves from the emitter to the first and second signal receivers, relative combined standard uncertainties of measurements of attenuation coefficient and velocity of propagation of ultrasonic waves.","PeriodicalId":40775,"journal":{"name":"Ukrainian Metrological Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46642965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}