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.”