Induction voidmeter
Abstract
An induction voidmeter for detecting voids in a conductive fluid such as liquid sodium is disclosed. The device may comprise: a four arm bridge circuit having two adjustable circuit elements connected as opposite arms of the bridge, an input branch, and an output branch; two induction coils, bifilarly wound together, connected as the remaining two opposing arms of the bridge circuit and positioned such that the conductive fluid passes through the coils; means for applying an ac excitation signal to input branch; and means for detecting the output signal generated in response to the excitation signal across the output branch. The induction coils may be located outside or inside a nonmagnetic pipe containing the conductive fluid.
- Publication:
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Patent Application Department of Energy
- Pub Date:
- December 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983doe..reptU....A
- Keywords:
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- Alternating Current;
- Coils;
- Detectors;
- Induction;
- Liquid Sodium;
- Magnetic Effects;
- Magnetic Fields;
- Magnetic Flux;
- Voids;
- Vortices;
- Electrical Resistivity;
- Measuring Instruments;
- Patent Applications;
- Pulsed Radiation;
- Instrumentation and Photography