Level Measurement - Differential Pressure - Course No. 35

Using differential pressure to measure level. The basic principles, calculations, and systems used.

Course No. 35

8.5 hours

Level Measurement – Differential Pressure

Fundamentals of pressure as related to liquid columns and atmospheric pressure; gauge pressure, specific gravity and conversion from one unit of pressure to another; U-tube and well-type  manometers; differential pressure; instrument  manifold with proper valving procedures; measuring liquid level with a manometer, level within vessel and below the vessel; conversions  for various manometer  fluids; seal fluids and balancing legs; liquid level measurement  in a pressurized vessel; use of condensate  leg when measuring level in vessel with vapor gas spaced; principles of purging instrument  process  lines; bellows-type pressure elements; effect of gas in instrument  liquid  lines; using diaphragms  as pressure measuring elements; flapper-ball-end dip-tube  level  instrument, and bubbler  dip-tube level device on open and pressurized vessels.

Prerequisites: Familiarity with sight and float instruments and buoyancy displacers.

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