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Wet gas is a challenge to measure in a number of industries, including those with combustible gases that represent a safety hazard. In the laboratory, today’s air/gas flow sensors and measurement technologies operate at their highest accuracy and greatest reliability in air or gas free of moisture, droplets, particulates, etc. The real industrial world, however, is a much different environment, where moisture can be entrapped in one form or another in air or gas flow streams with variable gas compositions and flow rates.

At ARC Advisory Group’s 20th Annual Industry Forum in Orlando, FL, Shawn Anderson, senior research specialist for Fisher Valves, a division of Emerson Process Management, gave a presentation on how the company is leveraging the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to help end users reduce valve-related unplanned downtime.

Accuracy equals money when it comes to gas custody transfer, so flow meters used in the process are essentially acting as cash registers. A new generation of custody transfer products rooted in ultrasonic flow meters provide accuracy that’s as good or better than other meter types, but without the risk of wear and tear that could cause a pressure drop.