Mandal, Goutam and Kumar, Anil and Mandal, Sanjoy and Sharma, D. C. and Kumar, Manoj (2019) Volume Measurement of Large Volumetric Vessel Using Tap Water. Mapan, 34 (4). 487-493. ISSN 0970-3950

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Abstract

Being a National Metrology Institute (NMI) of India, CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, India (NPLI), provides calibration services to the industries to improve the quality of products. In the last couple of years, NPLI has provided number of calibration services of volumetric vessels up to 2000 L (unique facility in India) to the petroleum industries, flow meter manufacturing industries, etc. In general, for the calibration of volumetric instruments, distilled water is used as the medium but in the case of large volumetric vessels (say 2000 L), the use of distilled water is not practical. Hence, tap water is used and every time the density of tap water is measured against distilled water to improve the accuracy of the measurement. In this process, we have achieved measurement uncertainty less than 50 mL in 2000 L. But due to influencing factors of environmental conditions of laboratory, change of density of supplied tap water, conversion factors of tap water and distilled water in desire temperature, we have restricted our calibration and measurement capability (CMC) up to 100 mL in 2000 L. In this paper, we have discussed the detailed procedure of volume measurement of 2000-L volumetric vessel and its associated uncertainty calculations using gravimetric method.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Copyright for this article belongs to M/s Springer Verlag.
Subjects:	Instruments/ Instrumentation Applied Physics/Condensed Matter
Divisions:	UNSPECIFIED
Depositing User:	Mr. Yogesh Joshi
Date Deposited:	19 Aug 2026 11:34
Last Modified:	19 Aug 2026 11:34
URI:	https://npl.csircentral.net/id/eprint/4332

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