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A competitor’s product, which had previously been considered, was found to have a meter drive frequency of 120Hz, which interferes with sensitive equipment on the engine test bed. ABLE put forward the Rheonik Coriolis, with its patented Omega tube design and consequent increased signal to noise ratio. The theoretical sizing calculations demonstrated the enhanced accuracy of the Gold Line Sensor option and the predicted pressure drop. The Rheonik has a drive frequency of 330Hz and is able to accommodate the high temperatures and pressures associated with the application.

Delivery time was critical and another factor which precluded our competitor; ABLE were able to procure a special concession from the factory and supplied the meter within a week of receiving the order.

CHIMERA will simultaneously subject components to:

• High temperatures
• High heat flux
• Static and pulsed magnetic loads
• Thermal cycling, fatigue, creep and other failure modes
• Under vacuum, air or inert gas

Therefore, enabling industry in the UK and internationally to design, and eventually qualify, components for future commercial fusion power plants.

A major contract (£14.3M) for the design and construction of CHIMERA has been agreed between UKAEA (Culham Centre for Fusion Energy’s operator) and US based global professional services firm Jacobs.

A key component of the construct is a pulsed magnet with a vertical field and this is facilitated by a water-cooled copper conductor. Accurate measurement of the flow of the cooled demineralised water through the conductor is vital. Jacobs were originally considering Vortex meters but, following discussions with ABLE Instruments, McCrometer V-Cone meters were selected due to accommodate the high temperature and pressure of the low conductivity demineralised water.

ABLE subsequently provided two complete systems including the flow meter, flow computer, differential pressure transmitter, temperature transmitter and a line pressure transmitter to be installed upstream of the V-cone. The three transmitter values will feed directly into the flow computer to provide a mass flow measurement.

The meters were required to operate under two different sets of process conditions:

• Mode 1 – 155 bar / 333°C / 650 litres/min
• Mode 2 – 50 bar / 190°C / 1000 litres/min

Fusion is one of the most promising options for generating the cleaner energy the world badly needs. CCFE scientists and engineers are developing the technology to bring fusion electricity to the grid. Bringing the power source of the stars down to Earth could give us low-carbon electricity for millennia to come.

The Thames Tideway Tunnel will protect the river for at least the next 100 years. It will be a 7.2m diameter, 25km-long tunnel, up to 65m below ground. It will run from Acton to the Abbey Mills Pumping Station in Stratford, mostly under the river. Preparatory work on the project began in 2015 and construction is now underway at each of TW’s 24 sites in London. The project is anticipated to be completed in 2025.

The tunnel will cost £4.2bn to complete. The cost of the project is being paid for by Thames Water’s 15 million wastewater customers through their bills, which will rise by approximately £25 per year.

In addition to their major construction role in the project, Tideway are being asked to provide low level hydrogen sulphide (H2S) analysis at 13 key locations across the capital as part of their nuisance odour monitoring remit. Having had previous positive experience of the industry standard Jerome J605 Gold Film H2S Analyser, Tideway approached ABLE for four of the instruments housed in bespoke, weatherproof enclosure systems with custom built mounting frames. The enclosures will also contain telemetry and metrological equipment.

Our Engineers will also be completing commissioning works, regular site maintenance visits throughout the projected 2-year operation period and decommission services as construction works draw to a close.

The enclosure design is intended to minimise time required at site to install and commission. A “Plug & Play” approach with industrial connectors will eliminate the need for a site team to be present to terminate power to the enclosure. ABLE will work with the Tideway team to further refine this specification if needed, to meet the needs of the project.

Essar Oil (UK) Limited completed the acquisition of the Stanlow Manufacturing Complex from Shell in August 2011 and employs over 900 people, processing 9 million tonnes of crude per year. The site produces a range of oil products including about one sixth of Britain’s transport fuels annually – about 4.4 billion litres of diesel, 3 billion litres of petrol and 2 billion litres of jet fuel.

As part of Essar’s ambition for Stanlow to become the UK’s first low carbon refinery, they are continually reviewing their procedures to improve efficiency and upgrading the associated process control instrumentation to optimise output.

Essar have long favoured the revered Magnetrol range of guided wave radar (GWR) transmitters for various critical level applications across the refinery, including storage, dewatering, desalting, distillation, blending. Having previously deployed the Eclipse Model 706 GWR throughout the refinery, Essar has now embarked upon a program of upgrading to the current generation Eclipse 706. The 706 provides improved signal strength with best-in-class Signal-to-Noise Ratio and advanced diagnostics; the 706 supports both the FDT/DTM and Enhanced DD (EDDL) standards, which allow viewing of valuable configuration and diagnostic information such as the echo curve in tools such as PACTware ™, AMS Device Manager, and various HART® Field Communicators.

Hydrogen refuelling stations operate across a wide range of temperatures (−40 to 60 °C) and pressures (up to 875 bar) in accordance with the worldwide accepted fuelling protocol SAE J2601 [2]. The purpose of this document is to provide performance requirements for hydrogen dispensing systems used for fuelling heavy duty hydrogen transit buses and vehicles. With wireless telemetry, the fuel level can be remotely monitored and the portable hydrogen fueller refilled in place or exchanged for a full unit.

ABLE’s range of Rheonik High Pressure Coriolis Mass Flow Meters are fast becoming the go to methodology for evaluating the refuelling station dispenser as a measurement system.

For Air Products, ABLE specified the Model RHM04 Compact Coriolis Flow Sensor with enhanced performance and OIML R139 approval certificate of conformity for the metering of a hydrogen dispenser used for refuelling cars. The RHM04 is available in standard high-pressure versions up to 1067 bar (15475 psi).

For this application, the flow sensor was paired with the RHE28 advanced function transmitter in a rugged epoxy coated enclosure, designed for field mounting.

The unique robust torsion driven oscillation system delivers mass flow uncertainty down to 0.10.

Equinor is present in around 30 countries around the world, including several of the world’s most important oil and gas provinces. They operate in North and South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania and Norway.

Mariner oil field is located approximately 150km east of the Shetland Islands, primarily in Block 9/11a in the northern North Sea, UK. It is the largest field developed on the UK Continental shelf in recent years.

The annual oil production rate from the field is approximately 55,000 barrels per day (b/d), which will increase to 70,000b/d during peak production phase.

Mariner is Equinor’s first operated asset in the UK, with its next target being Rosebank to the west of Shetland, though a final investment decision on that project is not expected until 2022.

The development has been praised for its use of automated drilling and digital twin technologies to improve costs.

When it came to the need for accurate and reliable flow metering on the 6” water injection lines, Wood approached ABLE, who specified the industry proven McCrometer V-Cone Differential Pressure Meters. To provide resistance to the potentially erosive nature of the process, the meters are constructed in 22% cr duplex stainless steel and are installed between 6” 1500# RTJ Flanges. 3.2 Material Certification is a pre-requisite. ABLE are also supplying the 5-valve manifolds and transmitter.

Petroineos came to ABLE with a request for 12-off intrinsically safe, Windows based 4G tablets for use in the field, with the capability of access into their O365 systems. The aim was to ensure shared files/workgroups and workflows could be enabled to carry out day to day activities without having to record, download/upload data after returning to a desktop or workstation.

The Reactor Design and Thermal Hydraulics (RDTH) group was established in late 2019 and is led by Dr. Marcus Dahlfors. RDTH emphasises Reactor Physics in practical plant operation and core monitoring.

Thermal Hydraulics of Water-Cooled Nuclear Reactors reviews flow and heat transfer phenomena in nuclear systems and examines the critical contribution of this analysis to nuclear technology development.

The THOR Project or Thermal-Hydraulics Open-access Research, yields an accessible platform for collaboration partners and other interested parties. In addition to the many academic challenges, Dr Dahlfors and his team are looking to promote the “THOR” product to a number of potential clients, having taken the recent pandemic enforced lockdown as an opportunity to optimise and fine tune the design. As part of that optimisation, the team looked to improve the accuracy of the liquid and steam mass flow measurement in the loop and to that end they came to ABLE Instruments for the supply of a Rheonik Coriolis Flow Meter. The Rheonik meters are based on a unique, patented Omega tube design which offers increased signal to noise ratio, excellent repeatability and high stability for critical applications such as that presented by the THOR Project.

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