Meters installed at university

The University of Manchester's Energy Management and Building Services team has installed 15 Micronics Heat Meters, utilising Micronics UL2000 Clamp-On, Ultrasonic flow meters as part of the ongoing energy management programme.

The university's heating requirement including LTHW and MTHW is supplied from shared Energy Centres and distributed via a steel pipe network. To comply with current legislation the campus is monitored and managed by Energy Cost Centres with Display Energy Certificates required for all areas greater than 1000m2 and the University has to account for 90% of the energy flow from the Energy Centres. The meters provide half hour consumption data, which is supplied for analysis via the University's dataconcentrators and campus Ethernet network, providing energy consumption data for 24h laboratories, conference and teaching blocks.

Micronics was selected as the supplier due to the University's previous experience using the Micronics Portaflo, portable ultrasonic, Clamp-on flow meter.

Chris Cunningham, assistant mechanical and energy engineer, said: "Clamp-On, ultrasonic flow measurement was clearly the most cost-effective and least disruptive solution for measuring flow in our distribution network."