What was New in Version 6.2?

ISA DataSheet for Microsoft Excel TM

Data is exported to an Excel worksheet in the ISA format.

Or Modify the ISA format datasheet to create a custom company specific worksheet.

Click Here To View a Sample Data Sheet

Enhanced Import/Export Functions

The Data Exporter functionality is now built in to The FLOW CONSULTANT ™

Easily import from and export to Microsoft Excel TM Worksheets (Excel sold separately)

Built in ISA style Datasheet in Microsoft Excel TM Worksheets

The estimated uncertainty based on the measured and unmeasured variables used in the flow rate computation are combined in accordance with the selected standards procedures to give the overall uncertainty (Accuracy).

The estimated uncertainty of the discharge coefficient and gas expansion factor is computed using the appropriate standards. The user inputs the uncertainties of the other measured or unmeasured variables.

Click Here to View Accuracy Screen

Unique to The FLOW CONSULTANT ™ is the exportable (and printable) tabulation shown below. First you select the number of points to compute then the screen displays:

1. Scaled flow rate as a function of the differential
2. The exact flow rate corrected for the discharge coefficient and gas expansion factor for flow rate
3. The directional Bias error between actual and scaled flow rate at the measured differential.

Click Here to View Flow Vs Differential Pressure

Wide Range Metering Accuracy can now easily be determined by

Step 1 select Flow Vs Dp to determine the +/- Bias, errors that occur by not including changes in discharge coefficient and gas expansion factor with Flow-Rate

Step 2 select Accuracy to determine the+/- error at the lowest acceptable flow rate.

 Combine the bias and precision error by summation and repeat for additional transmitters.

IAPWS Properties of Water/Steam

Since 1967, the industry standard for the thermodynamic properties of steam and water has been the IAPWS  "1967 IFC-Formulations for Industrial Use". These formulations have been the basis for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) steam tables. 

 In 1995, The International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS) released a new formulation for scientific use called the "IAPWS Formulation 1995 for the Thermodynamic Properties of Ordinary Water Substance for General and Scientific Use", otherwise known as the IAPWS-95 formulation.

The exact formulation is developed and programmed in The FLOW CONSULTANT ™, not the approximation region equations given in IAPWS Industrial use version (`1997)

The following web site provides additional information: http://www.iapws.org/

The exact plate bending equation presented in "Formulas for Stress and Straining" (RC Rourk and WC Young, McGraw Hill, 1976)  are programmed in The FLOW CONSULTANT ™ . With the restraints presented in the standards for maximum allowable bending,  the plate thickness is calculated for widely used restrictive orifice meters.