AMS Instrumentation & Calibration is now distributing the Vortab Elbow Flow Conditioner from The Vortab Company.
It helps process and plant engineers who can’t find room for the recommended straight pipe run required by liquid flow meters in municipal water treatment plant retrofit projects.
The conditioner eliminates the problem by removing swirl and asymmetric velocity profiles caused by pumps, valves and other equipment placed too close to the meter.
To provide accurate and repeatable flow measurement, electromagnetic and other types of flow metering technologies used in municipal plants for drinking water require a specific amount of straight pipe run upstream and downstream from the installed location of the meter.
The straight pipe runs create a swirl-free and symmetric velocity profile in the pipe that can be measured accurately over and over again.
The Vortab Company’s elbow flow conditioner nearly eliminates the flow meter upstream piping requirements by conditioning the flow stream into a flow regime, mimicking adequate straight run. In addition to conditioning the flow stream, the 90-degree angle tab-type Vortab Elbow Flow Conditioner eliminates the pipe cost and technician labour for the 5 to 10 upstream and 3 to 5 downstream pipe diameters required by many types of flow metering technologies.
The Vortab Elbow Flow Conditioner isolates flow irregularities and conditions the flow stream into a swirl-free and symmetrical velocity profile.
