The Venturi meter described earlier is a reliable flow-measuring device. Furthermore, it causes little pressure loss.
For these reasons it is widely used, particularly for large-volume liquid and gas flows. However this meter is relatively complex to construct and hence expensive. Especially for small pipelines, its cost seems prohibitive, so simpler devices such as orifice meters are used.
The orifice meter consists of a flat orifice plate with a circular hole drilled in it. There is a pressure tap upstream from the orifice plate and another just downstream.
The principle of the orifice meter is identical with that of the venturi meter.
The reduction of the cross section of the flowing stream in passing through the orifice increases the velocity head at the expense of the pressure head, and manometer measures the reduction in pressure between the taps.
Bernoulli's equation provides a basis for correlating the increase in velocity head with the decrease in pressure head.
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