Fluid mass sensor for a zero gravity environment
Abstract
A sensor for measuring the mass of fluids, is described which includes a housing having an inlet and outlet for receiving and dumping the fluid, a rotary impeller within the housing for imparting centrifugal motion to the fluid and a pressure sensitive transducer attached to the housing to sense the rotating fluid pressure. The fluid may be drawn into the housing by entrainment within a gas stream. The resulting mixture is then separated into two phases: gas and liquid. The gas is removed from the housing and the pressure of the liquid, under centrifugal motion, is sensed and correlated with the mass of the fluid.
- Publication:
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration Report
- Pub Date:
- November 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976nasa.reptV....F
- Keywords:
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- Fluids;
- Mass;
- Weightlessness;
- Aerospace Medicine;
- Centrifugal Force;
- Entrainment;
- Impellers;
- Patents;
- Pressure Sensors;
- Urinalysis;
- Instrumentation and Photography