Caldon 289Ci LEFM self-verifying liquid flowmeter

Reliable custody transfer measurements for liquid hydrocarbons

Applications

  • Custody transfer
  • Self-verification where proving is not possible
  • Leak detection
  • Refinery inlet and outlet
  • Offloading
  • Import and export metering

Benefits

  • 16-path ultrasonic flowmeter with industry-first capability to provide live uncertainty output for enhanced self-verification
  • Primary measurement based on industry-leading 8-path chordal design with dramatically reduced sensitivity to swirl and asymmetry effects
  • 5-diameter minimum upstream pipe run and no requirement for flow conditioner, which reduces total cost of ownership
  • Transducers that are isolated from the process and outside the pressure boundary for ease of service
  • No recalibration or zeroing required if transducer is replaced
  • In-house transducer manufacturing for maximum quality control
  • Continuous logging capabilities
  • Optional corrosion-, adhesion-, and contamination-resistant internal coating (proprietary)

Features

  • Available sizes: 8 to 40 in (larger sizes available on request)
  • Quantitative evaluation of meter performance, with a continuous and instantaneous output of uncertainty in velocity and flow rate
  • Internal uncertainty totalizers that report uncertainty as a volumetric total
  • Linearity ±0.1% over the nominal flow range
  • Advanced signal processing with real-time diagnostic analysis
  • Internal resistance temperature detector (RTD) for thermal expansion compensation
  • Compliance with API MPMS Chapter 5.8, International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML) Recommendation R 117-1 Edition 2019 (E) Accuracy Class 0.3, Measuring Instruments Directive (MID) 2014/32/EU, and NACE MR0175
  • Independent technology qualification: DNV liquid fiscal metering Class L-AAA

How it improves performance

A breakthrough in the verification of ultrasonic liquid meters, the Caldon™ 289Ci LEFM self-verifying liquid flowmeter builds on the robustness and performance of our 8-path meter to deliver a quantitative evaluation of meter performance. Based on the current process and meter conditions, it outputs the flow rate and quantifies the uncertainty in this flow rate every second.