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Bell prover — calibration and monitoring of time stability

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This paper is focused on the calibration and measurement of the geometric parameters of a bell prover that serves as a standard of volume of gas flow. It also includes methods for monitoring the time stability of the bell prover: intra- and inter-laboratory comparison measurements, Shewhart analysis and planned evaluation of recalibration intervals.

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  1. Centre of Flow, Slovak Institute of Metrology, Karloveska 63, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Miroslava Benkova, Stefan Makovnik, Ivan Mikulecky & Vlastimil Zamecnik

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Benkova, M., Makovnik, S., Mikulecky, I. et al. Bell prover — calibration and monitoring of time stability. MAPAN 26, 165–171 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12647-011-0016-3

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