This flowmeter provides the functions and performance required to monitor and manage factory air consumption. Its development was based on the following points derived from discussions with customers about monitoring and managing factory air consumption.
Mass flow rate measurement
Integration of all functions needed for monitoring and managing air consumption
Low cost
This device is equipped with a constriction mechanism whose measurement principle is the same as that of orifice, nozzle, and Venturi tube differential pressure flowmeters. The constriction mechanism employs an elliptical throat that was developed by Azbil Corporation and has a proven track record. Among its strong points is high-accuracy measurement in short straight pipes. For the converter, we use a multivariable sensor that detects differential pressure, pressure, and temperature with high accuracy. The converter applies density correction to the process variable detected by the multivariable sensor to give an accurate mass flow rate.
High-accuracy mass flow rate measurement
This air monitoring and management flowmeter achieves an accuracy of ±3% of the specified value by arithmetically processing the process changes detected by multivariable sensor at a high speed by applying the gas expansion compensation coefficient and compression coefficient required for calculating the flow rate calculation.
Auto ranging function
In differential pressure type flowmeters, the instantaneous flow rate range needs to be set by calculating the differential pressure generated from fluid conditions including flow rate value. However, the flow rate value of factory air is not known in most cases.