Close attention is given to special installation considerations and application limitations when selecting and installing different flow instruments.

By the end of this course delegates will be able to:

• Understand and compare important existing technologies in flow measurement
• Confidently explain the critical fundamentals of flow measurement
• Specify and design flow measurement systems
• Troubleshoot and install flow instrumentation systems
• Avoid common errors in the installation of flow meters
• Describe and specify emerging technologies

Automation engineers, building service designers, control technicians, data systems planners and managers, electrical and instrumentation technicians, electrical engineers, power system protection and control engineers, process engineers, electricians, energy management consultants, instrumentation and control engineers, maintenance engineers, anyone involved in the design, implementation and upgrading of industrial control systems

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include:
• Lectures
• Workshop & Work Presentation
• Case Studies and Exercise
• Videos and General Discussions

Basic Properties of Fluids

• Basic fluid properties
• Non-Newtonian fluids
• Velocity profiles
• Reynolds number
• Flow measurement
• Mass flow rate, multi-phase flows

Positive Displacement Meters

• Introduction, Sliding vane
• Oval gear meters
• Lobed impeller, Oscillating piston
• Nutating disc

Inferential Meters

• Turbine meter
• Woltman meter, Propeller type
• Impeller meters
• Installation recommendations

Oscillatory Flow Meters

• Primary devices, Sensors
• Application guidelines for vortex flow metering
• Avoiding problems

Differential Pressure Meters

• Basic theory, Orifice plate, Tapping points
• Venturi tube meter, Venturi and flow nozzles
• The Dall tube. Target meter, Pitot tube
• Point averaging, Elbow
• Troubleshooting

Variable Area Meters

• Operating principle, Floats, Metering tube

Electromagnetic Flowmeters

• Measuring principle
• Construction, Conductivity
• Field characterization
• Measurement in partially filled pipes
• Empty pipe detection, Field excitation
• The pulsed DC fields
• Bipolar pulse operation, Meter sizing

Ultrasonic Flowmeters

• Doppler method, Transit time meter
• Flow profile
• Frequency difference
• Clamp on instruments
• Velocity of sound measurement
• Factors influencing the velocity of sound
• Beam scattering
• Advantages, Disadvantages
• Application limitations

Mass Flow Measurement

• The Coriolis force
• A practical system
• Multiple phase flow
• Density measurement
• Loop arrangements
• Straight through tube
• Application in the food industry
• Applications in the chemical industry
• Summary of Coriolis mass measurement
• Thermal mass meters

Open Channel Flow Measurement

• The weir, The flume
• Level measurement, Linearisation

RECTUS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration