Custody transfer in natural gas applications has traditionally been performed by mechanical devices, such as turbine meters, which are easily damaged by contaminants and high-flow velocities that stress the moving parts. Not only do these issues impact long-term accuracy and reliability, mechanical meters also don’t offer good diagnostic data to ensure their health and performance.
Hardware and software developments make preventive maintenance easier, lower costs, reduce parts inventories, and prevent unexpected equipment failures.
Process manufacturing teams now have visibility into both historical and near real-time data from their operation and can even monitor this as it’s happening at remote locations. But the problem with this is that teams are drowning in data — ”DRIP” — data rich, information poor.
The Wafer-Cone flow meter is a differential pressure type flow measurement device. A cone is positioned in the center of the pipe to increase the velocity of the flowing fluid and create a differential pressure. This pressure difference can be measured and used to accurately interpret flow rate.
