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  R.W. Miller's Resume
 

 

Honors and Awards           Keynote Speaker         Clients         Consulting/Training

       Summary          Education           Committees        Patents          Publications    

   
  R.W.Miller is a consultant to industry in areas relating to his professional background in flow measurement, fluid dynamics, meter design, technical marketing, standards, flow laboratory design and operation and in general fluid metering applications. He has extensive experience with orifice, nozzles, Venturies, target, vortex, magnetic, and mass flowmeters as well as numerous other flowmeter types.

Previously, he was a Senior Consultant with the Foxboro Company, where he consulted in the broad area of flow measurement and flow meter design as related to industrial and custody transfer metering. He worked in the numerous aspects of design, manufacturing, research, and development activities associated with the companies diverse flow measurement and control product line.

He serves, or has served, on many standards and technical committees both nationally and internationally. He is the author of the McGraw Hill text Flow Measurement Engineering Handbook. He also, has published numerous technical papers. 

He directed and designed many of the company's compressible fluids and liquid laboratories used for product or research and development purposes.

 

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  Honors and Awards
 

Bristol Fellow - The Foxboro Company

ASME Fellow - American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Northeastern University Outstanding Alumni Award in Science and Engineering

ASME Dedicated Service Award for Outstanding Service and Leadership in Science

And Standardization

Lifetime member Who's Who in Engineering

National Registry of Who's Who in Finance and Industry

National Registry of Who's Who in America

 

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  Education
 

BS in Mechanical Engineering

MS in Mechanical Engineering

PhD Mechanical Engineering

 

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  Keynote Speaker
 

St Louis Flow Symposium

Washington International Flow Conference

ISA Section Calgary

ISA Section Edmonton

ISA Section Sarnia

Montreal International Gas Conference

Acadiana Flow Measurement Conference

 

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  Consulting/Training
 

The International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna

Flow Measurement Course/Conferences, R.W.Miller & Associates

Training courses at The Foxboro Company

Training Course for ISA

Training Course for ASME

In plant training courses at Arco, Houston, Gulf Oil, Camco (Trinidad)

 

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  Patents
 

An In-Line Powered Viscometer

A Vortex Flowmeter

An Annular Target Flowmeter

A Mass Flowmeter Apparatus

 

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  Member of USA and International Committees
 

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Vice President, Board on Standardization

Board on Standardization

Board on Council Operations

Council on Codes and Standards

Board on International Standards (Vice Chairman)

Past Chairman of Measurement of Fluid Flow in Closed Conduits

Organization (ISO) Organization of International Legal Metrology (OIML)

 

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  Clients (partial listing)
  Analog Devices, Ametek Aerospace Corp., ARCO Alaska, Bethlehem Steel, Boston Edison, BP Alaska, CDM, Cedar Bay Generating, Carmody & Torrence, Caldon, Camco, CMD, ConEdison, Control Center, Dieterich Standard, Dow Chemical, Dow North America, Duke Power, Ebasco, Exac, Exxon, Foster-Miller, Foxboro-Canada, Gerand Engineering, Hersey (Wyche, Burgess.), Honeywell, Honey well II, ICF Associates, Industry of Canada, ISA (Midland), Kessler-Ellis, Koch, Leopold, MWRA, MCV, McNeese State Univ, Mobil, Panametrics, PPG Industries, Praxair, Preso, Rosemount, Southern Calf., Edison, SDL, USX, World Financial Prop, 3 L Filters II, Gulf Oil, Camco (Trinidad), Lancer Corp, CITGO, Lansing Board of Water & Light, FPL Energy Seabrook, Duke Power
   
 

Publications

Flow Measurement Engineering Handbook, 3rd Ed. McGraw Hill Book Company Process Instruments and Control Handbook, Chapter 4, McGraw Hill Book Company

Driving Torques in a Theoretical Model of a Turbine Meter, J.Basic Eng., Trans.ASME Experimental Study of the Capabilities of Measuring Gas Mass Flow, Flow Measurement Symposium Proceedings,ASME

A Large Hydraulic Laboratory to Meet Today's Needs, Advances in Instr.,Vol.23

Hydraulic Calibration Laboratory, Instruments and Control Systems, Vol .42,No.3

Experimental Study of The Effects of Orifice Plate Eccentricity on Flow Coefficients, J.Basic Eng.,Trans.ASME,Vol.91,Series D,No.1

Precise Measurement of Differential Pressure When Calibrating a Head Class Meter, J.Basic Eng.,Trans. ASME,Vol 92,Series D

A Comparison Between Orifice and Flow Nozzle Laboratory Data and Published Coefficients, J.Basic Eng.,Trans ASME,Vol 96,Series 1,No.2

Vortex Flowmeter, FLOWCON symposium, Brighton,Sussex,UK

A Vortex Flowmeter,Calibration Results, NBS Flow Symposium,NBSPub. 484

Numerical Analysis of Swirling Turbulent Flow Through a Target Meter, ASME WAM,San Francisco

A Comparison Between the Stolz Equation and Laboratory Data, ASME A Study of Inter-laboratory Comparisons of Calibrations on Ten Orifice Plates, FLOMEKO ,Groningen,The Netherlands

National and International Orifice Coefficient Equations Compared to Laboratory Data, IMEKO,Tokyo

A New Coefficient Equation for Concentric Sharp Edged Orifice- Part 1 Fundamental Considerations, ASME,WAM,New York

A New Coefficient Equation for Concentric Sharp Edged Orifices- Part II Statistical Analysis, ASME WAM,New York

The Stolz and ASME Equation Compared to Laboratory Data, ASME,J. Fluid Eng.,Vol.10

The Uncertainty Values for the ASME-AGA and ISO 5167 Flange Tap Orifice Equation, ASME WAM,New YorkThe Orifice Flowmeter-The State of the Art, NBS Orifice Workshop,Gaithersburg Md.

The History of Flow Measurement:Past Present and Future,

Proceeding of Texas A&M Instrumentation Symposium,Texas A&M

Vortex and Orifice Flowmetering of Natural Gas,ASME WAM,FED,Vol.17New Orleans

Flow Measurement in the Natural Gas Industry ,Int'l Symposium Measurement Properties and Utilization of Natural Gas, Montreal, Quebec                                             

 

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