AMS Instrumentation & Calibration has unveiled its new Vortab Insertion Panel (VIP) flow conditioners.
The VIP flow conditioner completely neutralises flow profile irregularities caused by elbows, valves, blowers, compressors, and other flow disturbances that commonly occur in piping and duct runs and cause flow metre inaccuracies, AMS said.
The VIP provides a swirl-free, symmetric and repeatable flow profile that flow meters require for accurate measurement.
Model VIP flow conditioners marry the scientifically proven superior performance of Vortab tab-type flow conditioning technology with the installation ease and cost savings of an insertion panel design.
VIP is particularly effective with wide-turndown and/or low flow sensitive flow meter technologies – such as thermal dispersion – to provide a highly repeatable flow profile during laminar, transitional and turbulent flow conditions.
The VIP has many applications in industry for process conditioning for control valves, blowers, compressors, burners and other critical process equipment with piping that have inadequate straight-runs.
There are many examples such as processes that require repeatable, symmetric and swirl-free velocity flow profiles; flow conditioning for calibration and/or test benches and flow meters; for pipe sizes less than 50mm and FCI endorsed for use with thermal dispersion gas mass flow meters.
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