Space-Saver Design for Crowded Plants & Institutional Facilities

Process, plant and facility engineers will find the new V-Cone Steam Flow Meter delivers precision steam flow meters in a space-saver design that eliminates many of the common equipment layout headaches typically associated with a wide variety of processes requiring steam injection or heating, as well as in HVAC systems for plants and institutional facilities.
The new V-Cone Flow Meter for steam provides accurate flow measurement in steam process lines connecting industrial boilers with process equipment or HVAC systems. At the same time, the V-Cone’s self-conditioning flow design eliminates most of the straight-professional pipe requirements typically needed by many flow meter technologies, by controlling swirl and other flow disturbances in the pipe that affect measurement accuracy.
Accurate to +0.5%, with a repeatability of +0.1%, the V-Cone requires only 0-3 pipe straight diameters upstream and 0-1 diameters downstream from the meter. Nearly all other types of flow meters require as many as 10 pipe straight diameters upstream and 5 pipe diameters downstream from the meter. In today’s crowded plant equipment environments, the V-Cone typically reduces real estate, piping material, associated pipe support structure and installation labor by 50 percent or more.
The bigger the line size, the bigger the savings with the V-Cone. For example when the V-Cone is installed in a typical 36-inch steam process line, it requires from 0 to 3 straight pipe diameters (0-108 inches) upstream and 0-1 (0-36 inches) downstream. A conventional flow meter would require a straight run of 360 inches upstream and 180 inches downstream.