A clamp-on for cleaning?
The British company Stainless Restoration Ltd. used a Katronic flow meter to remove debris from pipes.
Non-invasive flow measurement for stainless steel pipes
Stockport-based metal fabrication company Stainless Restoration Ltd. acquired a portable KATflow 200 as part of a project to clean and maintain the piping system of heat exchangers for one of the largest and most prominent mechanical engineering groups in the United Kingdom.
The project, carried out for Rolls-Royce, involves dismantling piping from large heat exchangers to remove particulate deposits that have accumulated on the inner surface. Iron oxide, dust, atmospheric contaminants, and loose fibers are removed from the inner pipe wall using fine filters with a pore size of up to 3 micrometers, by circulating clean, demineralized water at a high flow rate through the piping, creating turbulence within the pipe that scrubs the inner pipe wall.
A KATflow 200 ultrasonic flowmeter from Katronic, equipped with K4N sensors, confirmed that the flow rate is maintained at more than 3.5 kg per second—the rate required to generate sufficiently turbulent flow to achieve the cleaning effect.
Stainless Restoration purchased the KATflow 200 after having previously rented measuring instruments from Katronic and having had a very positive experience with them. Frank Morris, the company’s managing director, commented as follows: “For us, the K200 was perfectly suited for various projects involving chemical loops. We appreciate the flow meter’s ease of setup and reliability, and we also received excellent telephone support from the team in Coventry.”
