Flowmeter proves efficiency

Adrian Frise, Low Carbon Solutions’ Technical Director was pleased with the selection of the Micronics Portaflow 220A. "The Portaflo unit has been used successfully on a number of occasions and for several purposes. For example, where we suspected that there was a problem with the flow of coolant through the cooling system it aided the diagnostics process so that we were able to locate the fault," he said.

"It is also used for detecting other low flow situations in CHP heating circuits and importantly used as a reliable independent instrument, to prove generated heat output figures from our CHPs to our clients."

Micronics Portaflow 220 portable flowmeter is designed to work with clamp-on transducers to enable the flow of a liquid within a closed pipe to be measured accurately without needing to insert any mechanical parts through the pipe wall or protrude into the flow system.

This was particularly important to reduce downtime in constantly busy locations. Using ultrasonic transit time techniques, the Portaflow 220 can be used with a wide range of pipe sizes, material and fluid temperatures.