Micro Motion ELITE Coriolis meters – the standard for fiscal transfers

Customers are challenged with reducing costs and optimising processes in tough applications that demand high, reliable production rates. Emerson’s Micro Motion® ELITE® high capacity meter range delivers superior performance and includes the highest flow rate Coriolis meter available.

With meters covering 6”-12” line sizes, the Emerson Process Management family of Micro Motion ELITE High Capacity meters is field-proven for fiscal custody transfer, and ideal for a wide range of high flow liquid and gas measurement applications.

Because of the fluctuation in market demand for crude oil, fuel oil, natural gas, ethylene, and other hydrocarbons, users in fiscal transfer applications are striving for reliable, accurate measurement over wide flow ranges to reduce costs. Emerson’s range of Micro Motion Coriolis meters is ideally suited for liquid hydrocarbons, delivering ±0.10% mass and volume flow accuracy and ±0.0005 g/cc density accuracy, and also for natural gas delivering mass accuracy of ±0.35%. These accuracies are maintained over the highest turndown of any single flowmeter available today.

When transferring crude oil or other hydrocarbons in custody transfer applications, the importance of system reliability is paramount. While, in the past, custody transfer systems have used turbine or positive displacement (PD) flowmeters to make flow measurements, users now recognise that eliminating rotating components within measurement systems is a best practice leading to higher reliability. With no moving parts, Emerson’s Micro Motion Coriolis meters are not subject to the wear or performance drift that the rotating components of a PD or turbine flow meter experience over time.

Micro Motion ELITE High Capacity Coriolis meters deliver unmatched performance for measurement applications ranging from 6” (DN150) to 12” (DN300) process connections. The meters can handle a maximum liquid flow capacity of 120,000 lb/min (3,266,000 kg/h / 20,500 bbl/h / 3,270 m3/h), typical gas flow rate of 231,000 scfm of natural gas, and standard pressure ratings to 102 bar (1,480 psi). The Micro Motion sizing programme can provide specific information on any application including accuracy, turndown, pressure drop and flow velocity based on the properties of the fluid to be measured.

ELITE High Capacity Coriolis meters have been tested with crude oil and other liquid and gas hydrocarbons in accordance with American Petroleum Institute (API) and American Gas Association (AGA) procedures. They have been approved by the European Measuring Instrument Directive 2004/22/EC (MID) for liquids other than water (Annex MI-005) by the internationally respected Dutch metrology institute NMI.

Micro Motion Coriolis flowmeters lead the process manufacturing industry in quality, measurement performance, and reliability, and are part of Emerson’s broad range of intelligent, digital field devices that power the PlantWeb™ digital plant architecture. Further cost savings, increased plant availability, and enhanced safety and environmental compliance are achieved when the flowmeters are integrated into the PlantWeb digital plant architecture.

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