Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection (Jan 2021)

Possibility of application nuclear magnetic resonance for measurement of fluid-flow

  • Kartalović Nenad M.,
  • Đekić Saška D.,
  • Đekić Saša B.,
  • Nikezić Dušan P.,
  • Ramadani Uzahir R.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2298/NTRP210614017K
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 36, no. 2
pp. 168 – 173

Abstract

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The paper considers the application of nuclear magnetic resonance for measurement of fluid-flow. The paper is of an experimental nature. Flowmeter based on nuclear magnetic resonance is extremely precise. The combined measurement uncertainty can be 0.1 %. Such a value of measurement uncertainty indicates that it is a matter of a deterministic and not of a stochastic quantity. This high degree of reliability of the method is theoretically and mathematically described. The paper presents a measurement scheme for flow measurement. Water flow measurement was performed on the principle of nuclear magnetic resonance and on the basis of tritiated water (which is considered to be the most accurate classical method). The obtained results show that the measurement of flow based on nuclear magnetic resonance is more accurate (especially at higher flow). This is explained by the higher inertial mass of HTO tritiated water molecules than the standard H2 O mass and the possible transition of tritiated water to H3HeO. In this way, it has been proven that tracing water based on nuclear magnetic resonance is the only real tracing of water by water. The obtained results show that tracing water with tritiated or heavy water is not tracing water by water which is explained by different inertial masses.

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