Radiometric measuring arrangement and method for detection of accretion formation in a radiometric measuring arrangement

US10101192B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Endress+Hauser SE+Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Dirk Glaser · Steinen, DE
• Martin Urban · Bad Kötzting, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 7, 2013
• Grant date: Oct 16, 2018
• Expiry date: Jan 29, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2223/639
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Radiometric measuring arrangement for measuring and/or monitoring a measured variable, especially a fill level or a density, of a fill substance located in a container and a method executable therewith for detection of accretion formation in the container. The variable to be measured is measured by means of a measuring system, which during operation sends radioactive radiation along a measuring path through the container, and measures radiation intensity emerging from the container along the measuring path, and by means of a comparison measuring system, which sends radioactive radiation along a comparison path through the container and measures radiation intensity emerging from the container along the comparison path. The comparison path extends in such a manner through the container that in the case of the presence of an accretion layer on the inner walls of the container a ratio of a sum of the two segments of the measuring path extending through the accretion layer to the length of an additional segment of the measuring path (A, A′) extending between these two segments is different from the ratio formed in the same manner for the comparison path, and an accretion formation occur…