Orifice Plates

Types of Orifice Plates

 Types of Orifice Plates
• Concentric Orifice Plates
• Eccentric Orifice Plates
• Segmental Orifice Plates
• Quadrant edge Orifice Plates
 Concentric Orifice Plate
• It is the most widely used
• Stainless steel and
thickness varies
depending on pipe line
size and velocity.
• Circular hole in middle
and installed with hole
concentric to pipe
• Nickel,Monel,Phosphor
bronze-withstand
corrosive effects
 Eccentric Orifice Plate
• For liquids containing solid
particles that are likely to
sediment or for vapors likely
to deposit water
condensate, this orifice
plate is used with its
eccentric bore bottom flush
with the bottom of the
piping inside surface so that
the sedimentation of such
inclusions are avoided
 Segmental Orifice Plate
• Segmental orifice plates
are most useful where
there are substantial
entrained water or air
and also if there are
suspension in the fluids.
• This avoids build up in
front of the orifice plate.
• The orifice hole is placed
at the bottom for gas
service and top for
liquids.
 Quadrant Edge
• The inlet edge of the
bore of this orifice plate
is rounded to a quarter
circle.
• This orifice plate is
usually used for viscous
fluids & Reynolds
number between 2000
to 10000
Flanges
 Types of Flanges
• Raised Face weld neck
• Raised Face Slip on
• Ring type joint weld
neck
• Corner tap flanges
 Position of Taps in Orifice
• Flange Taps
• Venacontracta taps
• Radius taps
• Full flow or pipe taps
• Corner taps
 Orifice Tappings
Tapping D1 D2 Remarks
Type
Pipe taps 2.5D 8D Mainly used for gas lines,when D is small and pressure
differential is small,beta<0.70
Radius taps D 0.5D Prescribed to keep the tapping positions fixed
irrespective of beta
Flange or 1 1 Used mainly for D>1 inch.It is the most popular tapping
Corner taps inch inch positions
 β ratio
• It is the ratio between the diameter of the
restriction and the inside diameter of the pipe
• Most head meters depend on a restriction in
the flow path to produce a change in velocity.