A novel method for discriminating between water and oil using the temperature dependence of ultrasonic travel time

For discriminating between water and oil, a novel method is proposed in this paper. As a fundamental result, the temperature dependence of ultrasonic travel time of water and oil measured from 5$^{\circ}C$ to 40$^{\circ}C$ at a step of 5$^{\circ}C$ is found as that the ultrasonic travel time of oil increases with increasing temperature, whereas that of water decreases. The proposed method for discriminating between water and oil is based on the opposite temperature dependence of ultrasonic travel time of water and oil. Besides the advantages of non-invasion and on-line measurement, there are no requirements of measuring the temperature of liquid being detected and obtaining previously a large quantity of database, and furthermore, only two times of measurements are ...