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News Release from: Fluid Components International | Subject: Flow calibration laboratory
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 27 December 2005
Calibration laboratory goes with the
flow
A state-of-the-art flow calibration laboratory offers a wide range of analytical services designed to achieve precision accuracy, superior repeatability and the highest reliability.
Industrial process or plant engineers and OEM equipment design engineers with challenging flow measurement applications will find a new free brochure describing the services of Fluid Components International's state-of-the-art flow calibration laboratory offers them a wide range of analytical services designed to achieve precision accuracy, superior repeatability and the highest reliability With over 40 years of flow instrumentation experience, FCI operates one of the industry's leading flow analysis and calibration laboratories
All laboratory equipment is National Institute of Standards (NIST) traceable, as well as certified to ISO9001:2000 and AS9000 compliant.
The laboratory also meets MIL-STD-45662A and ANSI/NCSL-Z-540 requirements.
FCI's flow calibration laboratory provides gas flow calibration capabilities ranging as low as 0.00017m3/h to ranges that exceed 8500m3/h and higher for line sizes in excess of 250mm.
Flow calibrations for applications with temperature ranges from -73 to +538C and pressure ranges from 0 to 68bar are commonly performed for many fluid services.
This advanced flow calibration laboratory is used across the aerospace, aviation, process control and discrete manufacturing industries for precision thermal flow/level sensor design, manufacture, calibration, and research.
The company's laboratory has supported a large number of leading-edge development programs, including preflight testing sensors for the F22 Raptor fighter, the V-22 Osprey helicopter, the Global Express programme and others.
Flow calibration laboratory services support a wide range of air, gas and liquid flow metering and flow switching applications in industrial processes and OEM equipment, as well as commercial aerospace and military aircraft, ground vehicles and naval ships.
Specialised calibrations also can be performed on our separate test stands for both liquid fuel flow and sanitary flow.
FCI's liquid fuel flow stand provides calibrations that range from flow rates of 0.1 to 100gallon/min to 0.25% accuracy and -40 to +104C with 0 to 8.6bar pressure range.
The test section has 3m of available length with multiple process connections and flexible hose configurations to support a wide variety of test set-ups.
This stand is ideal for flow sensor calibration in aviation fuels (JP5, JP8, Jet A, Stoddard Solvent) as well as coolants, lube and hydraulic fluids (ethylene glycol, PAO synthetic oil).
FCI's sanitary flow stand supports a wide range of clean and sanitary liquid applications (milk, orange juice, water based liquids and cleaning solutions) for the food/beverage, pharmaceutical and other industries with high purity requirements.
This stand offers a flow range of 0.1 to 50gallon/min, accuracy up to +/-0.1% of reading, temperature range of 4 to 93C and pressure range of 0 to 6.9bar.
The test section has standard pipe and tubing sizes as well as customer specified assemblies for many test setup configurations.
From its earliest thermal mass flow sensor designs, FCI has focused closely for over 40 years on replicating field conditions in a controlled laboratory environment because the closer the replication, the higher the flow meter accuracy will be.
Capabilities include a wide range of fluids, line sizes and process connections.
This assures the highest installed accuracy and minimum metering uncertainty.
Laboratory capabilities also include extensive automation and data collection capabilities, offering proprietary solutions that balance efficiency with traceability and reliability.
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