: FLOWSIC600

Ultrasonic Gas Flow Measurement//A class of its own

March 2012
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: Oil- and Gas Industry

: FLOWSIC600 Basics
: Standards and Recommendations
: Dry and wet calibration
: Unique Selling Points
- Superior Transducer Technology
- Best Path Layout
- Unique Automatic Diagnostics
- Innovative User Interface
- Product Portfolio
- Company SICK
: Applications
: Competition
: Summary

: Confidential
 CONTENT

: Oil- and Gas Industry

: FLOWSIC600 Basics
: Standards and Recommendations
: Dry and wet calibration
: Unique Selling Points
- Superior Transducer Technology
- Best Path Layout
- Unique Automatic Diagnostics
- Innovative User Interface
- Product Portfolio
- Company SICK
: Applications
: Competition
: Summary

: Confidential
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Gas Distribution Residential

Production Transmission
Gathering Industry

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: Oil- and Gas Industry

: FLOWSIC600 Basics
: Standards and Recommendations
: Dry and wet calibration
: Unique Selling Points
- Superior Transducer Technology
- Best Path Layout
- Unique Automatic Diagnostics
- Innovative User Interface
- Product Portfolio
- Company SICK
: Applications
: Competition
: Summary

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FLOWSIC600 Basics

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FLOWSIC600 Basics
System Components

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FLOWSIC600 Basics
Operating principle

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Transducer A

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Travel Times Path Velocity Averaged Velocity

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Meter Body

DIN ANSI
DN50 2“
DN80 3“
DN100 4“
DN150 6“
DN200 8“
DN250 10“
DN300 12“

DIN ANSI GOST DN350 14“

PN 16 CLASS150 GS16 DN400 16“

PN 40 CLASS300 GS40 DN450 18“

PN 100 CLASS600 GS100 DN500 20“

Carbon steel
Low temperature carbon steel PN 150 CLASS900 GS150 DN550 22“
Stainless steel DN600 24“
Duplex PN 250 CLASS1500 GS250
Other on request Other (Techlok,..) on request Up to DN1200/48“

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Meter Body - Options

: Different Foot Print

: Modified pressure tap

: Customer specific colour and/or coating

: Offshore options
- Stainless steel SPU housing
- Stainless steel Transducer covers

: SPU Sun Shade

: Neck extension

: Other on request

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Signal Processing Unit – I/O

: 5 Configurable Outputs
- RS485 (ASCII, RTU)
- Pulses
- State
- Analog

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Signal Processing Unit - Logbooks

: Three Logbooks
: Custody Logbook max. 1.000 entries
: Warning Logbook max. 500 entries
: Parameter Logbook max. 250 entries
: Tracing of parameter changes according API requirements
: 34 different logbook messages provide detailed information about the meter

: Two Configurable DataLogs

: Logging of
: Volume counters
: Diagnosis data
: Status information

: One Diagnostics Comparison DataLog

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Installation – Required Inlet/Outlet Section

: Standard Configuration
T

 10D  3D

: Configuration with Flow Conditioner

 3D
 5D

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System Solutions - Example

System
Integration

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Extraction Tool

: Extraction Tool
: Transducer exchange under
line conditions

: Transducers circuits [ia]

: Disconnection in EX-areas possible
: For sizes  6”
: Up to 160 bar
: Small sized

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 CONTENT

: Oil- and Gas Industry

: FLOWSIC600 Basics
: Standards and Recommendations
: Dry and wet calibration
: Unique Selling Points
- Superior Transducer Technology
- Best Path Layout
- Unique Automatic Diagnostics
- Innovative User Interface
- Product Portfolio
- Company SICK
: Applications
: Competition
: Summary

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EX and Metrology Approvals

: Ex-approvals
- ATEX: II 1/2G Ex de ib [ia] IIA T4 or II 1/2G Ex de ib [ia] IIC T4

- CSA: Class I, Division 1, Group D T4; Class I, Division 2, Group D T4

Class I, Division 1, Groups B,C,D T4; Class I,Division 2, Groups A,B,C, D T4

- IECEx: Ga/Gb deia[ia] IIC T4 / IIB T4 and IIA T4

: Metrology Approvals
- MID DE-08-MI002-PTB005  Europe

- PTB code number 7.421 / 03.05  Germany

- NMI code number B35  Netherlands

- Measurement Canada Approval No. AG-0521  Canada

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European Metrological Approval FL600 - MID

: Module B : Metrological pattern approval

: Module D : Quality assurance certification

: Certification carried out by the PTB

(in Germany)

: Only one approval procedure for all 25

countries of the EU has to be made

: Actually: Rev. 3

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Guidelines and Recommendations

OIML papers
: Guidelines for design, measurement behavior, testing procedures of electronic
measuring instruments
: European certified bodies (PTB, NMi, ...) and standards (ISO draft) refer to OIML
papers

A.G.A. Report No.9

: Guidelines for design, measurement behavior, testing procedures of ultrasonic
meters, ...
: American clients and customers wordwide ask for conformity with A.G.A. Report
No.9

ISO 17089-1
: Guidelines for design, measurement behavior, testing procedures of electronic
measuring instruments
: Worldwide standard guideline for ultrasonic flow meters

API 21.1 -
: American clients ask for conformity with the paper API 21.1
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 CONTENT

: Oil- and Gas Industry

: FLOWSIC600 Basics
: Standards and Recommendations
: Dry and wet calibration
: Unique Selling Points
- Superior Transducer Technology
- Best Path Layout
- Unique Automatic Diagnostics
- Innovative User Interface
- Product Portfolio
- Company SICK
: Applications
: Competition
: Summary

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Steps to Meter Accuracy

Wet Calibrated Meter (with gas flow)

High Pressure Calibration, polynomial correction
Typ. uncertainty ± 0.1 %

High Pressure Calibration, linear correction ± 0.2 %

Ambient Air Calibration ± 0.35 %

Dry calibrated Meter (without gas flow)

Configuration, Zero- and SOS-check
Typ. uncertainty ± 0.5 %
STEPS TO ACCURACY

Base Line

3D-Measurement

Manufacturing

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Dry calibration
: Dry calibration = without gas flow

: Typcial uncertainty: ±0,5%

: Procedure
: Adjustment of all parameter to a
minimum deviation with respect to a
calibrated master meter

: A “Master Base Line” for every meter

size

: Zero-Flow test
: Speed-of-Sound Check

: Each delivered meter is “dry calibrated”

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Wet calibration

Fig.: Calibration Station TCC, Winnipeg Fig.: Calibration Station pigsar, Dorsten

Fig.: Calibration Station NMI, Westerbork

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 CONTENT

: Oil- and Gas Industry

: FLOWSIC600 Basics
: Standards and Recommendations
: Dry and wet calibration
: Unique Selling Points
- Superior Transducer Technology
- Best Path Layout
- Unique Automatic Diagnostics
- Innovative User Interface
- Product Portfolio
- Company SICK
: Applications
: Competition
: Summary

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FLOWSIC600: Unique Selling Points.

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 CONTENT

: Oil- and Gas Industry

: FLOWSIC600 Basics
: Standards and Recommendations
: Dry and wet calibration
: Unique Selling Points
- Superior Transducer Technology
- Best Path Layout
- Unique Automatic Diagnostics
- Innovative User Interface
- Product Portfolio
- Company SICK
: Applications
: Competition
: Summary

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Superior Transducer Technology

: Material
- Titanium, Stainless Steel

: Design
- Miniaturized
- Hermetically sealed

: Working frequencies
- Standard: 205 kHz
- Optional: 80kHz, 135kHz, 350 kHz

: No matching layer
- High design pressure and design temperature
- Suitable for wet and corrosive gases

: High efficiency
- Operates as well at ambient pressure
- Intrinsically safe operation

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Superior Transducer Technology

: Further Applications
- Oxygen (Stainless Steel transducers)

- Hydrogen

- Chlorine gas

- Ethylene gas

- High temperatures like steam (up to 280ºC)

- Carbon Dioxide up to 100%

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Superior Transducer Technology - Benefit
+ Reliability and long-term stability of the measurement

+ One supplier who covers the full gas flow metering range

+ Wide operating pressure range – from 0 barg to 500 barg

+ Wide temperature pressure range – from -194 °C to 280 °C

+ LNG Boil off applications
+ Standard natural gas transmission
+ Steam applications

+ 3” – 48” Fiscal Metering with proven Westinghouse Design

+ Various operating frequencies -> suitable for various applications

as:
+ High damping gas (e.g. CO2)  80 kHz
+ Process gas / wet gas  135 kHz
+ Dry & clean natural gas  205 kHz
+ Ultrasonically noisy applications  350 kHz

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 CONTENT

: Oil- and Gas Industry

: FLOWSIC600 Basics
: Standards and Recommendations
: Dry and wet calibration
: Unique Selling Points
- Superior Transducer Technology
- Best Path Layout
- Unique Automatic Diagnostics
- Innovative User Interface
- Product Portfolio
- Company SICK
: Applications
: Competition
: Summary

: Confidential
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Best Path Layout

: 4 parallel direct paths in one vertical plane

(Westinghouse design)

: Short path length provides superior

immunity to control valve noise

: Additional Chordal design benefits:

: Excellent dirty vs. clean results
: Ability to detect thermal stratification
: Easy to identify flow conditioner blockage

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Best Path Layout – Immunity Control Valve Noise

Traditional Solution

Traditional solutions include complex pipe arrangements

with bends / tees or systems designed to include other
components between noise source and the ultrasonic meter

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Best Path Layout – Immunity Control Valve Noise

FLOWSIC600 requires less

space to Regulators than any
other USM

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Best Path Layout - Benefit

+ Superior immunity to control valve noise and pipe contamination

 Reliable measurement

+ Cost savings at new installations with simplified pipe arrangements

+ Reduced maintenance / longer maintenance cycle

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 CONTENT

: Oil- and Gas Industry

: FLOWSIC600 Basics
: Standards and Recommendations
: Dry and wet calibration
: Unique Selling Points
- Superior Transducer Technology
- Best Path Layout
- Unique Automatic Diagnostics
- Innovative User Interface
- Product Portfolio
- Company SICK
: Applications
: Competition
: Summary

: Confidential
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Unique Automated Diagnostics

: Automated diagnostics indicating changes of the device

or the nearby application (Blocked Flow Conditioner,..)

: Diagnostics has been implemented in the meter’s

firmware

: Easy display without interpretation of the technician in the

FLOWSIC600 user software FLOWSIC600 CBM
- Green
- Yellow
- Red

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Unique Automated Diagnostics

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Unique Automated Diagnostics

: Automatic gain control (AGC)

: Signal-to-Noise ratio (SNR)
: Performance

signal

noise
: Speed-of-Sound (SOS)

: Profile factor
: Symmetrie Fig.: Signal-to-Noise ratio
: Turbulence

Gas Velocity

10

20

30

40

50

60
0
Time Frequency

Fig.: Turbulence

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Unique Automated Diagnostics – User Warnings

: User/Application warnings can be used

to define application specific warning
limits

: User warnings help to ensure

an early warning before the system
limits are exceeded

: Of course the meter is shipped pre-

configured with a default set of limits

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 CONTENT

: Oil- and Gas Industry

: FLOWSIC600 Basics
: Standards and Recommendations
: Dry and wet calibration
: Unique Selling Points
- Superior Transducer Technology
- Best Path Layout
- Unique Automatic Diagnostics
- Innovative User Interface
- Product Portfolio
- Company SICK
: Applications
: Competition
: Summary

: Confidential
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Innovative User Interface MEPAFLOW600 CBM

MEPAFLOW600 CBM

• CBM: Condition Based Maintenance

• COMPATIBILITY: all firmware releases
• EASY TO USE: a tool for experts as well as untrained staff
• LAYOUT: Windows design
• PERMANENT ACCESS: usable with the meter online and offline
• Management of several flow meters

Management Functions Diagnosis Functions Support Functions

• Meter management • Signal diagnosis • Tools and assistants for:

• Database management • Internal intelligent self control - Commissioning
• Logbook management • Diagnostic values control - Calibration
• Report management - Automatic Gain Control - Output testing
- Maintenance report (AGC) - Data recording
- Parameter report - Performance • Protocol support
- Calibration report - Signal-to-Noise (SNR)
- Speed-of-Sound (SOS)
• Automatic connect support - Gas Velocity (VOG)
• Automatic meter detection - Profile factor (New)
- Symmetry (New)
- Turbulence (New)

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Innovative User Interface MEPAFLOW600 CBM

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Innovative User Interface MEPAFLOW600 CBM

: Meter Values with possible path (transducers) contamination

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Innovative User Interface MEPAFLOW600 CBM

: Meter Values with possible blocked flow conditioner or liquid in the pipeline

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Innovative User Interface MEPAFLOW600 CBM

: Maintenance Report – Meter Status Report

- Meter Data

- Meter Diagnostics

- Meter Health

- Plots of main diagnostic parameters

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Innovative User Interface MEPAFLOW600 CBM

: Data Logs Configuration

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Innovative User Interface MEPAFLOW600 CBM

: Diagnostics Comparison

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 CONTENT

: Oil- and Gas Industry

: FLOWSIC600 Basics
: Standards and Recommendations
: Dry and wet calibration
: Unique Selling Points
- Superior Transducer Technology
- Best Path Layout
- Unique Automatic Diagnostics
- Innovative User Interface
- Product Portfolio
- Company SICK
: Applications
: Competition
: Summary

: Confidential
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Product Portfolio

FLOWSIC600 FLOWSIC600 FLOWSIC600 FLOWSIC600

2-Path 4-Path 2plex Quatro

The FLOWSIC600 The FLOWSIC600 The FLOWSIC600 The redundant

2-Path is the basic 4-Path is designed 2plex combines a design of the
model with two as a direct chordal fiscal and a FLOWSIC600
measuring paths to path ultrasonic diagnostic meter - Quatro provides two
be used in all meter in the well- the fiscal meter with 4-path fiscal meters
branches of proven four paths and the with equal accuracy
industry where gas Westinghouse diagnostic meter within one meter
flow is measured. design. with one path. body.

Ideal for process Ideal for high Ideal for advanced Ideal for fully
control and internal accuracy custody Condition Based redundant systems.
accounting. transfer applications. Maintenance.

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The Basic Solution for Process Measurement

TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS

• 2 Path
• 2“ ... 48“ / DN50 ...DN1200
• Accuracy dry calibrated of ±1% (Qt – Qmax)
• Integrated performance monitoring

APPLICATION

• Basic solution for process measurement

• Only for non custody transfer application
• Applicable to all branches of industry
• Ideal for process control and internal accounting

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FLOWSIC600 4-Path
The Standard Solution for Custody Transfer

TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS

• 4 Path
• 3“ ... 48“ / DN80 ...DN1200
• Accuracy dry calibrated of ±0,5% (Qt – Qmax)
• Integrated performance monitoring

APPLICATION

• Standard solution for custody transfer

• Westinghouse design - best layout on the market
• Same performance as 5 or 6-path meters
• Ideal for high accuracy custody transfer application in the
natural gas industry

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Key Features & Benefits

KEY BENEFITS
KEY FEATURES

Hermetically sealed transducers Long term stability and reliability in

made from titanium a wide range of applications

Smallest and most efficient 3” - 48” custody transfer USM

transducer technology available

Direct path design without signal Superior immunity to control valve

reflection noise and pipe contamination

Condition Based Maintenance

Intelligent self-diagnosis firmware
(CBM) and automated alarms

Modern, easy-to-use software

Software MEPAFLOW600 CBM supports all diagnostic features of
the meter

Compact & robust design with Minimized risk of hardware

integrated cabling damages

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FLOWSIC600 2plex
“The flow meter that keeps a check on itself.”

TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS

• 4+1 Path - each with its own electronics

• 3“ ... 48“ / DN80 ...DN1200
• Accuracy dry calibrated of ±0,5% (Qt – Qmax)
• Integrated performance monitoring
• Monitoring the installation close to the meter
(contamination, blockage and pulsation)

APPLICATION

• Our new star with a complete new concept

• Provides not only redundancy but also integrated additional
diagnostics to ensure proper operation

• Best solution for long term stable metering with highest

accuracy

• Ideal for advanced condition based maintenance applications

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“The flow meter that keeps a check on itself.”

: Comparison: Fiscal

- Flow rate fiscal meter 300 m3

- Flow rate check-meter Check

302 m3

: Redundance
- Measurement value
- Diagnostics

: Easy to understand

: Potential to quantify deviation

Fig.: FLOWSIC600 2plex

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“The flow meter that keeps a check on itself.”
12-inch, 4-Path Meter - 1 Hole Blocked Results

1.00
Un-Blocked CPA Single Hole Blocked - Botton CPA
0.75

0.50
Durchschn.: 0.012%
0.25
% Error

0.00

-0.25

-0.50

-0.75

-1.00
0 5 10 15 20 25
Meter Velocity (m/s)

12-inch, Single-Path Meter, 1 Hole Blocked Results

1.00
Un-Blocked CPA Single Hole Blocked - Bottom CPA
0.75

0.50
Durchschn.: -0.82%
% Error 0.25

0.00

-0.25

-0.50

-0.75

-1.00
0 5 10 15 20 25

Meter Velocity (m/s)

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FLOWSIC600 Quatro
One Body - Two Brains

TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS

• 4 + 4 Path - each with its own electronics

• 3“ ... 48“ / DN80 ...DN1200
• Accuracy dry calibrated of ±0,5% (Qt – Qmax)
• Integrated performance monitoring
• 2 independent fiscal meters in one meter body

APPLICATION

• Install one, measure twice

• Cost saving as 2 independent meters for 2 different companies
• Full redundancy
• Ideal for fully redundant systems

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 CONTENT

: Oil- and Gas Industry

: FLOWSIC600 Basics
: Standards and Recommendations
: Dry and wet calibration
: Unique Selling Points
- Superior Transducer Technology
- Best Path Layout
- Unique Automatic Diagnostics
- Innovative User Interface
- Product Portfolio
- Company SICK
: Applications
: Competition
: Summary

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The Company SICK

: German Engineering

: Independent and healthy company

: Technology leader in ultrasound

: Infrastructure

: Local subsidiaries

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FLOWSIC600 USP‘s – THE COMPANY SICK
Technology Leader & Infrastructure

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