Flowhire News

New High Pressure Gas Metering Systems

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

At the request of their offshore clients Flowhire have recently developed their new high pressure gas metering systems.

Specifically designed for applications such as pipeline dewatering and purging, the systems are fitted with 1502 hammer unions and suitable for air and nitrogen at pressures of up to 160 bar.

Being Exd rated the systems are suitable for hazardous area zone 2 applications

Flowhire chose to use the latest Endress and Hauser Prowirl vortex flow meters and the new 500 series flow computer from Contrec providing a digital display of corrected volume flow rate, totalised flow, Mass flow, pressure and temperature.

The first two systems have already been contracted and are currently being used during a 3 month project off the coast of Egypt.

Flowmetering applications get Hire & Hire!

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Flowhire Ltd, the UK’s specialist flowmeter and flowmetering systems hire company are currently upgrading their gas and steam metering systems to incorporate Contrec’s new 500 series flow computer. For over 10 years Flowhire’s systems have incorporated Contrec flow computers.

Manager of Flowhire Mr Matthew Bancroft said, “the Contrec range of instruments have proved to be unparalleled in providing our customers with accurate results and uncompromised reliability”.

The all new 500 series has an advanced operating system, programmable input/output circuits and MODBUS communications. The instrument has a level of flexibility to meet just about any flow application, regardless of the complexity.

The new instruments were supplied by Flowquip Ltd who are the UK distributor for Contrec Instrumentation.

Improving Steam Distribution

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Yarn spinners and dyers, Buckfast Spinning Co (Part of the Axminster Carpet Group) recently installed three of flowHIRE's vortex based hire steam metering systems.

Buckfast's Chief Engineer, Barry Steer takes up the story.

"The primary purpose of the hire was to map the distribution of steam throughout the Buckfast site as a study to ascertain the feasibility for an energy saving scheme. The data sampling period was four weeks, this we felt was a good sampling of the production levels in our three dye houses. The three meters were positioned in our main steam lines using on site preconstructed kits of parts to facilitate speedy installation. This took about six hours in total using three engineers. Connection of the flow computers and data logger was simple in the extreme owing to the pre-labelling of the connections by Flowhire. Commissioning the meters was achieved with the minimum of drama".

"As an interesting bonus to the original purpose of the hire, the very sensitive metering provided by the hire equipment highlighted a fault in one of the line reducers which had not been shown by our own equipment, this was quickly corrected, improving steam flow to that area of the mill."

The flowmeters used were FlowHIRE vortex meters supplied in meter runs with temperature and pressure transmitters and flow computers. A paperless recorder with datalogging facility was used to collect the data which could then be further analysed on a standard PC.

FlowHIRE have a wide range of flow instrumentation for hire including meters for steam, air and liquids usingultrasonic, vortex, turbine, magnetic, DP and Coriolis techniques.