Siemens provides excellence in ultrasonic flow meter products for many industries. This high level of performance results from decades of experience enhancing ultrasonic flow measurement technologies. The results are ultrasonic flow meter products recognized worldwide for their quality, performance, versatility and ease-of-use. Our ultrasonic flow transmitters deliver impressive performance – even under the toughest conditions.
Siemens offers two types of ultrasonic flowmeters, inline flowmeters and clamp-on flowmeters. This offers the end user the maximum flexibility to choose the technology that best fits his needs.
Inline Flowmeters
Benefits
- Greater flexibility:
- Sensor sizes from DN 50 to 3000 mm (2″ to 120″)
- Inline retrofit as 1-path and 2-path up to DN 3000 (120″)
- Compact and remote transmitter installation
- HART and PROFIBUS PA communication
- Mains or battery powered solutions
- Dedicated transmitter portfolio for HVAC, power generation, utility and general industry as well as more demanding applications
- Easier service:
- Exchange of the transducers without interrupting operation
- Battery lifetime of up to 6 years
- Approvals/certificates:
- Custody transfer approvals within district heating
- ATEX
- Standard with calibration certificate
Application
In-line ultrasonic flowmeters are suitable for measuring the flow of liquids with good acoustic permeability, independent of conductivity, viscosity, temperature, density and pressure.
- max. 3 % solids
- max. 3 % air and gas
- max. 350 cSt
The main applications can be found in the following sectors:
- Raw water intake for water treatment plants
- Treated waste water
- Power generation and utility
- Oil and gas industry and petrochemical industry
- Irrigation systems
- Cooling water plants within the industry and in power stations
- Plants transporting non-conductive liquids
- HART/4 to 20 mA output
- PROFIBUS PA
- ATEX
Clamp-on Flowmeters
Benefits
- Easy installation; no need to cut pipe or stop flow
- Minimal maintenance; external sensors do not require periodic cleaning
- No moving parts to foul or wear
- No pressure drop or energy loss
- Wide turn-down ratio
- Choice of single, dual or multiple channel versions and a variety of enclosures – to suit your operating conditions and requirements
Application
SITRANS F US clamp-on ultrasonic flowmeters have seven product families, each targeting specific applications:
SITRANS FUS1010 Standard and SITRANS FUP1010 Portable flowmeters are suitable for a wide variety of liquid applications, including the following:
- Water industry
- Raw water
- Potable water
- Chemicals
- Wastewater industry
- Raw sewage
- Effluent
- Sludges
- Mixed liquor
- Chemicals
- HVAC industry
- Chillers
- Condensers
- Hot & cold water systems
- Power industry
- Nuclear
- Fossil
- Hydroelectric
- Processing industry
- Process control
- Batching
- Rate indication
- Volumetric and mass measurement
SITRANS FUE1010 Energy flowmeters are ideally suited to thermal energy/power industry applications, including:
- Chilled water sub-metering
- Hot water sub-metering
- Condenser water
- Glycol
- Thermal storage
- Lake source cooling
SITRANS FUH1010 Oil flowmeters are ideal for applications carrying crude oil, refined petroleum or liquefied gas. There are three application areas: Interface detection, precision volume and standard volume.
Interface detection
- Precise identification of interfaces on multi-liquid pipelines
- Rapid and precise scraper “pig” indication
- Product identification
- Density indication
Precision volume
- Applications with multiple liquids having a wide viscosity range
- Automatic gross volume compensation due to viscosity changes
Standard volume (High end system)
- Standard (net) volume flow measurement
- Suitable for use in leak detection systems
- Mass flow output measurement
- Interface detection
- Scraper (“pig”) detection
- Chemical and petrochemical processing
SITRANS FUG1010 Gas flowmeters are ideal for most natural and process gas industry applications, including:
- Checkmetering
- Allocation
- Flow survey verification
- Production
- Storage
SITRANS FST020 Basic flowmeters are suitable for most clean liquid applications, including the following:
- Water & wastewater industry
- Potable water
- Wastewater, influent & effluent
- Processed sewage, sludge
- Chemical feed industry
- Sodium hypochlorite
- Sodium hydroxide
- HVAC & power industries
- Coolant flow
- Fuel flow
- Process control
- Chemicals
- Pharmaceuticals
FUT1010 Liquid and gas flowmeters are suitable for liquid and gas applications, including the following:
- Liquid
Liquid balancing
– Terminal transmix metering
– Refinery blending
– Airport facility management
– Petrochemical processing
– Plant optimization - Gas
Production wells
– Underground storage
– Transmission
– Electric power generation
– Gas processing plants
Thickness Gauge
This is why the standard probe operates at a 5 MHz frequency enabling it to measure even the smallest pipe thickness. Although the thickness gauge was originally designed to increase the accuracy of clamp-on flowmeters, it can be used to measure the thickness of any pipe wall.
The stand-alone thickness gauge can be used with all of the configurable systems:
SITRANS FUH1010 (Interface Detection)
as well as the pre-configured check metering kits:
SITRANS FUP1010 for water applications
SITRANS FUE1010 for energy applications
Detail
| Sound Velocity Range | 1000 to 9999 m/s (3,280 to 32,805 ft/s) |
| Probe Frequency | 5 MHz |
| Operating Temperature | -10 to 50 °C (14 to 122 °F) |
| Power Source | 2 X 1.5V AAA batteries |
| Battery Life | Approx. 250 hours |
| Display Type | 128 x 32 LCD with backlight |
| Weight | 150 g (5.3 oz) |
Benefits
- Measures pipe wall thicknesses easily
- Works on various metallic and non-metallic pipe materials such as steel, aluminum, titanium, plastics and ceramics
- Displays results in inches or millimeter