The Flowquip FT3/50-1502 high pressure turbine meter has been specifically designed and manufactured to meet the exacting demands of applications associated with the oil and petrochemical industries.
The FT3 is an electro-mechanical volumetric device. An important feature of the design of the high pressure turbine is an extremely strong rotor construction, therefore utilising helical blades machined from solid, which is virtually indestructible.
The variable inductance pickoff coil, mounted on the flowmeter, senses the passage of the rotor blades. Consequently, it emits a sine wave voltage pulse. The frequency of this pulse is proportional to the volumetric flowrate. This signal is either fed directly to an instrument for a local display or into a scaler/conditioner for transmission to a remote location. Flowquip offers a range of instrumentation to suit all needs.
Additionally, the high-pressure flow meter body is machined from solid Alloy A286. This material has a very high yield strength, allowing the turbine to be used at extreme pressures. Furthermore, the rotor is machined from 431 stainless steel solid bar. It has been specially designed with fewer blades and a shallow blade angle for liquids containing entrained solids. Heavy-duty tungsten carbide bearings make mechanical failure from water-hammer or over-speeding much less likely. To ease maintenance, the complete rotor cartridge assembly can be removed from the turbine body without special tooling. The cartridge is held in place by the 1502 mating seal. Removing this seal allows the cartridge to slide out for cleaning or on-site replacement with a new pre-calibrated rotor assembly if required.
FT3 turbine high pressure flow meters can be installed in horizontal or vertical pipelines. For bi-directional flow applications the meter should be installed with the direction arrow showing ‘forward’ flow. For best performance installation should be in a straight section of pipe of equal bore size to the flow meter allowing at least 10 pipe diameters upstream and 5 pipe diameters downstream. All control valves should be installed downstream of the flow meter.
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Should you wish to hire a high pressure turbine meter, this can be done through our sister company Flowhire.
