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Profil TitelQuantity-measuring equipment for natural gas, suitable for gas transfer stations and gas supply companies  

Referenz

08 HU HUBU 0JKF
HerkunftslandHungary
KooperationsartAngebot
Eintrag/Änderung2008-01-23 / 2008-04-16

Kurzfassung

A Hungarian SME offers an ultrasound-based quantity-measuring equipment for natural gas, suitable for gas transfer stations and gas suppliers. The instrument functions without moving parts, a design reducing the number of possible defects. Measurement accuracy: 0.2 %. Ambience pressure: 0-64 bar. Number of the ultrasound transceivers: 2-8 pcs. They seek a cooperation partner to sign a license, technical, joint venture, manufacturing, commercial, or financial agreement.

Details

A Hungarian company deals with the development and manufacturing of differential-pressure measuring devices for water, steam and gas, magnetic-inductive flow meter, industrial electronics and measuring buoys for water quality. They also calibrate flow-measuring instruments in their accredited hydrology laboratory. They are developing ultrasound flow meter for natural gas.
The custody transfer between gas supply companies and consumers is based on the results obtained from the measurement applied under industrial circumstances for the quantities flowing through the gas pipelines. The measuring systems of natural gas quantities consist of a field device and a processing unit. The field device itself represents the measuring instrument. The field devices can work according to the operation principle of turbines, differential-pressure, vortex-shedding and ultrasound sensors. In the case of the offered ultrasound-based technology, the ultrasound (US) transceiver pairs are built into the wall of a tube. They send alternatively ultrasonic pulses in both directions. The difference in the time of flight between signals propagating in the flow direction and in the opposite direction is proportional to the flow speed of the gas passing through the tube. If the transmitter-receiver pairs are installed at various levels within the same diameter section, the flow speed relationships prevailing within the individual levels of the section in question can be established, and from the results the flow diagram plotted.
The flow meter electronics is DSP (Digital Signal Processor)-based because of the need to reconstruct the received pulse from the noisy signal. The processing unit is a PTZ (P - pressure, T - temperature, Z - value corrected with gas characteristics) corrector which role is to calculate the normalised volume and energy flow. The gas characteristics (e.g. calorific value) are defined by a chromatograph. The offered system emits a signal that is proportional to the normal m3.

Innovative Aspects:
The differential-pressure and turbine flow meters create a pressure drop, therefore energy loss. The offered solution does not include any part inside the tube; pressure loss is therefore avoided. The processing unit has been developed by the company itself.
The equipment functions without moving parts, a design reducing the probability of defects and the need of maintenance. Due to the electronic measuring procedure, the instrument is characterised by high precision. The PTZ corrector is a universal one, equipped with dedicated display and HMI interface (Human Machine Interface). Its price/value ratio is better than that characterising the technologies of the competitors.


Technologiesektor

- (Datenverarbeitung /) Datenaustausch, Middleware
- Transport und Speicherung von Brennstoffen
- gasförmige Brennstoffe
- Akustik

Anwendungsbereich

- Industrial measurement and sensing equipment
- Gas transmission and distribution

Entwicklungstand

Available for demonstration - field tested  

Patentrechte (IPR)

Patent(s) applied for but not yet granted  
 The mechanical part is ready for the demonstration purposes. The PTZ corrector and the ultrasound-based flow meter are already available on the market. There is a patent applied for the new technology.  

Kooperationstyp

- License Agreement
- Joint further development
- Testing of new applications
- Adaptation to specific needs
- Joint Venture Agreement
- New way to use an existing production line
- Assembly
- Engineering
- Technical consultancy
- Financial Resources

# Type of partner sought
Industry, service company.
# Specific area of activities of the partner
Metrology.
# Tasks to be performed by the party offering the technology
Transfer of the technology, together with the related technical documentation and software, under appropriate legal frameworks. Technical training, installation, maintenance and technical expert advice for the introduction, installation and use of the new technology.
# Tasks to be performed by the future partner
Dissemination of the technology. Exploration of customers` special needs and information about the results, for further development. Common manufacturing.

Organisationstyp

Industry      Größe: 11-50  
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