Abstract: A measuring transducer includes a tube arrangement having a bent tube, an equally embodied tube, a bent tube and a tube embodied equally to the tube, and two flow dividers each having four flow openings. The measuring transducer includes an exciter for exciting and maintaining mechanical oscillations of the tube arrangement and a sensor for registering mechanical oscillations of the tube arrangement and for producing oscillation measuring signals. Each tube is connected to each flow divider to form four parallel flow paths, having a straight segment connected with the flow divider, an arc shaped segment following such straight segment, a straight segment following such arc shaped segment, an arc shaped segment following such straight segment, a straight segment following such arc shaped segment, an arc shaped segment following such straight segment, and a straight segment following such arc shaped segment and is connected with the flow divider.

Abstract: The measuring system comprises a vibration-type measuring sensor, a sensor housing, a magnetic-field detector, and measuring-system electronics electrically coupled both to an oscillation exciter and to oscillation-sensing devices of the measuring sensor. The measuring sensor is inside the sensor housing and the magnetic-field detector is outside the sensor housing. The magnetic-field detector is designed to convert changes in the magnetic field into a magnetic-field signal having an amplitude dependent on a magnetic flux through the magnetic-field detector and/or on an area density of said magnetic flux. The measuring-system electronics are designed to determine, on the basis of oscillation measurement signals of the measuring sensor, the mass-flow-rate measurement values representing the mass flow rate and to at least qualitatively determine, on the basis of the magnetic-field signal, whether an external magnetic field is established inside the measuring sensor.

Abstract: A measuring tube arrangement of a measuring device for detecting a mass flow rate of a flowable medium includes: two measuring tubes for conducting the medium, wherein the measuring tubes each have an inlet and an outlet, wherein the measuring tubes are bent at least once between the inlet and outlet; a coupler arrangement for mechanically coupling the two measuring tubes, wherein the coupler arrangement has at least two coupler elements, wherein one coupler element is arranged at the inlet, and one coupler element is arranged at the outlet; two magnet arrangements, each having at least two magnets, arranged on the measuring tubes, wherein precisely one magnet arrangement is arranged on one measuring tube; and a connecting body configured to mechanically detachably connect the measuring tube arrangement to a carrier unit, wherein the connecting body is connected to the inlet and to the outlet of the respective measuring tubes.

Abstract: A vibronic sensor for measuring mass flow rate, includes a measurement pipe, an excitation magnet and a sensor magnet, an excitation coil and a sensor coils, each having an elongated basic shape. The basic shape has a center of gravity through which a largest diameter having a length d1 and a smallest diameter having a length d2 extend, wherein the excitation coil or the sensor coil has a first coil axis and a second coil axis in a cross-sectional plane. The largest diameter d is in the first coil axis, wherein the smallest diameter d2 is in the second coil axis. For a quotient d1/d2, the following applies: 1.15?d1/d2, where, when the measurement pipe vibrates in an in-plane mode, a deflection direction of the measurement pipe is oriented in parallel with the first coil axis in a region of the excitation magnet or the sensor magnet.

Abstract: The Coriolis mass flowmeter comprises a measuring transducer having a vibration element, an exciter arrangement, and a sensor arrangement The flowmeter further includes an electronic transmitter circuit coupled with the exciter arrangement and the sensor arrangement. The transmitter circuit supplies power to the exciter arrangement to force mechanical oscillations having a wanted frequency. The sensor arrangement includes two electrodynamic oscillation sensors to convert oscillatory movements of the vibration element into an electrical signal having an alternating voltage having an amplitude dependent on the wanted frequency and on a magnetic flux of its oscillation sensor. The sensor arrangement includes a magnetic field detector adapted to convert changes of the magnetic field into a magnetic field signal having an amplitude dependent on a magnetic flux and/or an areal density of the magnetic flux.

Abstract: A Coriolis mass flow meter includes: a measuring tube for guiding a medium; a support body connected to the measuring tube on the inlet side and on the outlet side; an exciter for exciting bending vibrations of the measuring tube; at least two vibration sensors for detecting vibrations of the measuring tube; and a reinforcing body fastened to a lateral surface of the measuring tube and surrounds the measuring tube, the reinforcing body including, at least in sections, a helical course with a plurality of windings, a distance between two adjacent windings of the reinforcing body being not less than twice, for example, not less than four times or not less than eight times, a material thickness of the reinforcing body in the region of the windings.

Abstract: A measuring tube arrangement of a measuring device for detecting a mass flow rate of a flowable medium includes: two measuring tubes for conducting the medium, wherein the measuring tubes each have an inlet and an outlet, wherein the measuring tubes are bent at least once between the inlet and outlet; a coupler arrangement for mechanically coupling the two measuring tubes, wherein the coupler arrangement has at least two coupler elements, wherein one coupler element is arranged at the inlet, and one coupler element is arranged at the outlet; two magnet arrangements, each having at least two magnets, arranged on the measuring tubes, wherein precisely one magnet arrangement is arranged on one measuring tube; and a connecting body configured to mechanically detachably connect the measuring tube arrangement to a carrier unit, wherein the connecting body is connected to the inlet and to the outlet of the respective measuring tubes.

Abstract: A modular measuring device for determining a density of a measurement medium includes a support module, a first measuring tube module and at least one further measuring tube module, wherein the support module has a receptacle for detachably fastening the measuring tube modules, a contactless temperature sensor, a primary exciter component along with a primary sensor component, wherein each measuring tube module has a restraint complementary to the receptacle of the support module, a vibrating tube, a secondary exciter component complementary to the primary exciter component, and a secondary sensor component complementary to the primary sensor component, wherein each vibrating tube of the measuring tube modules has a different tube diameter, a straight first tube leg, a straight second tube leg, a curved first tube bend and a curved second tube bend.

Abstract: A process monitoring device includes: a measuring tube arrangement including a measuring tube; a receptacle module including a receptacle, wherein the measuring tube module is insertable into the receptacle and releasably mechanically connectable to the receptacle module; and a system for biotechnological applications, wherein the system includes a housing with a wall delimiting an interior, the wall having a cover with an opening, wherein the receptacle extends through the opening into the interior in a receiving direction, wherein the receptacle module is arranged in the opening that the receiving direction has a vector component opposite to the direction of gravity, such that a dead volume in the measuring tube and/or in a distributor piece which is attached to the measuring tube, when the measuring tube module is empty, is less than 20%.

Abstract: A method for determining variables influencing a total zero point error of a Coriolis mass flow meter comprises: exciting a vibration of a bending vibration mode; measuring a first total zero point error T at a flow of zero; ascertaining a first damping value D of the vibration of the bending vibration mode; measuring an exciter-independent zero point error I during a decaying vibration of the bending vibration mode at a flow of zero; ascertaining a first exciter-dependent contribution E to the first total zero point error T based on the first total zero point error T and based on the exciter-independent zero point error I; and ascertaining a sensitivity factor S for the bending vibration mode based on the first exciter-dependent contribution E to the total zero point error T and based on the first damping value D.

Abstract: A process monitoring device includes: a measuring tube module having at least one measuring tube through which a medium can flow; a receptacle module having a receptacle, wherein the measuring tube module can be inserted into the receptacle, wherein the measuring tube module can be mechanically separably connected to the receptacle module; and a system for biotechnological applications, wherein the system has a housing, wherein the housing has a housing wall, which delimits a housing interior, wherein the housing wall has a cover, wherein the cover has an opening, wherein the receptacle module, in particular the receptacle, extends through the opening into the housing interior.

Abstract: A measuring transducer includes: a transducer module including a housing and a coil within and connected with the housing; and, set in the transducer module, a transducer module including a tube and a magnet secured on a middle segment of the tube. The tube wall is so formed that a directrix of a channel surface of the middle segment extends outside a first reference plane of the measuring transducer defined by first and fourth reference axes, and the magnet is secured on the middle segment such that a second reference plane of the measuring transducer defined by second and fourth reference axes is parallel to a third reference plane defined by third and fifth reference axes or that the second and third reference planes intersect one another to form an angle of intersection of no more than 1°.

Abstract: A modular Coriolis flowmeter includes: a measuring tube module, including a measuring tube for guiding the medium, an excitation magnet on a vibration exciter for exciting the measuring tube, and a sensor magnet on a vibration sensor for detecting a vibration of the measuring tube; a receiving module including a receptacle for receiving the measuring tube module, an excitation coil on the vibration exciter, a sensor coil on the vibration sensor, and a receiving module body, including a ferromagnetic material and an opening, wherein a coil holder for the excitation coil and/or sensor coil is disposed in the opening, the coil holder including a coil holder body including an electrically insulating material.

Abstract: A Coriolis flow meter, includes: a measuring tube arrangement with at least one measuring tube and a fixing body arrangement; at least one oscillation exciter and at least one oscillation sensor; a support apparatus with seat and fixing apparatus, wherein the fixing apparatus has at least one swingable fixing element, wherein the fixing apparatus is adapted to connect the measuring tube arrangement, for example, the at least one measuring tube, via the fixing body arrangement mechanically releasably with the support apparatus body, wherein the at least one fixing element is adapted in the case of connecting the measuring tube arrangement with the support apparatus body to exert a bending force on the fixing body arrangement for elastically bending the fixing body arrangement.

Abstract: A Coriolis measuring sensor of a Coriolis measuring device includes: at least a pair of measuring tubes; a support body; at least one exciter; and at least two electromagnetic sensors per pair of measuring tubes, wherein the electromagnetic sensors are configured to mask interference magnetic fields and to detect local inhomogeneous magnetic fields generated by magnet devices of the sensor according to a winding direction and/or an interconnection configuration of coils of the magnet devices.

Abstract: A Coriolis measuring transducer comprises a pair of measuring tubes; an exciter; at least two sensors; and two manifolds. Each measuring tube has a first outer measuring tube bend and a second outer measuring tube bend. Each measuring tube pair has a first group of at least two fixing elements and a second group of at least two fixing elements. The fixing elements have, along the measuring tube centerline, a first separation from outer ends of the measuring tube bends of at most 0.7 bend length. The outer measuring tube bends have, in each case, at least one stiffening element, wherein the stiffening elements are arranged between the groups of fixing elements, wherein the stiffening elements have, in each case, a second separation from an inner end of their measuring tube bend of at least 0.2 bend length.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for putting a Coriolis flow meter into operation, in particular a Coriolis flow meter for pharmaceutical bioprocess applications, the method comprising the method steps of: inserting the measuring tube arrangement into the receptacle of the carrier device; causing the measuring tube to vibrate by means of the excitation signal arriving at the vibration exciter and provided by the operating circuit; determining a measurement value of a state variable that is used as a measure for checking whether the measuring tube in the carrier device is in a steady state; and determining the mass flow rate measurement value when a difference between the measurement value of the state variable and a reference value of a reference variable lies below an upper limit value and exceeds a lower limit value.

Abstract: The measuring system includes a transducer apparatus with two tubes. Each tube is adapted to be flowed through by a fluid from an inlet end toward an outlet end and to be caused to vibrate. An electromechanical exciter mechanism excites and maintains mechanical oscillations of each of the tubes, and a sensor arrangement registers mechanical oscillations of at least one of the tubes. The transducer apparatus includes two temperature sensors each being mechanically and thermally conductively coupled with a wall of the tube, wherein each of the temperature sensors registers a measuring point temperature, and converts such into a temperature measurement signal temperature. A measuring and operating electronics (ME) generates a transducer temperature measured value representing a transducer apparatus temperature so that a magnitude of the transducer temperature measured value is greater than a magnitude of the measuring point temperature and less than a magnitude of the measuring point temperature.

Abstract: A method for producing a measurement tube assembly for a Coriolis flow meter includes: providing a core assembly and a mold, which define a cavity therebetween, the core assembly a core that includes a core body of a first material; filling the cavity with a second material to form a measurement tube body of the measurement tube assembly, the second material having a higher melting temperature than the first material; separating the mold and the core assembly from the measurement tube assembly melting the at a melting temperature that is below the melting temperature of the second material and above the melting temperature of the first material. The present disclosure further includes a Coriolis flow meter and to a use of a lost-core method to produce a measurement tube assembly.

Abstract: A measuring tube arrangement of a measuring device for detecting a mass flow rate of a flowable medium includes: two measuring tubes for conducting the medium, wherein the measuring tubes each have an inlet and an outlet, wherein the measuring tubes are bent at least once between the inlet and outlet; a coupler arrangement for mechanically coupling the two measuring tubes, wherein the coupler arrangement has at least two coupler elements, wherein one coupler element is arranged at the inlet, and one coupler element is arranged at the outlet; two magnet arrangements, each having at least two magnets, arranged on the measuring tubes, wherein precisely one magnet arrangement is arranged on one measuring tube; and a connecting body configured to mechanically detachably connect the measuring tube arrangement to a carrier unit, wherein the connecting body is connected to the inlet and to the outlet of the respective measuring tubes.