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ROUND UP
Precise measurement
of consumable fuels in
automobile industry
KOBOLD Instrumentation, represented in South
Africa by Instrotech – a Comtest Group company,
was asked to look into, and supply a solution
to an ongoing headache for an established
Japanese automotive company – how to accu-
rately record the exact quantity of fuel received
on-site, daily.
In order to track every single part and con-
sumable needed to get the 28 000 cars this
manufacturer producesmonthly, up and running,
it goes without saying that the logistics depart-
ment’s records have to be highly accurate and
instantly accessible. One of the most important
consumables is fuel, both gasoline and diesel.
These fuels are not only used for car testing, but
also for utility purposes like fork-lifts, emergency
electric generator, inter-plant transportation, etc.
The flow and level metering of the fluids, had
always been of concern to management.
The automotive company routinely purchases
fuel, which arrives at the plant site by fuel truck.
It is unloaded and stored in several dedicated
storage tanks.The existing gear flowmeters had
been running for more than 10 years and the
operation was handled by a single field operator,
using simple log book. The level meters were
even more traditional, using only mechanical
floats and simple on-the-tank-side scale.
KOBOLD proposed using their TME coriolis
mass flow meters and NMC capacitance level
transmitters, integrated with a PC-based central-
ized data acquisition unit, to be located in the
Logistics Room.
Enquiries:Tel. 010 595 1831 or
Ultrasonic heat and cold measurement for water
Instrotech
representing, ELIS PLZEN, Czech Republic manufacturer and supplier
of flow meters, has on offer the SONOTHERM 3070 – an ultrasonic heat and cold
meter intended for measuring absolute heat/cold quantities delivered to plants
or otherwise consumed in closed hot-water heating/cooling systems. When used
as a commercial meter, the SONOTHERM 3070 can be located either at the input
hot-water piping to heated buildings or premises, or at the output of heat sources
ahead of a heat exchanger.
The SONOTHERM heat/cold meter measures and stores information on heat
quantity calculated from the water temperatures measured at the input and output
piping by means of coupled
resistance temperature sen-
sors Pt 100 (Pt 500).The heat-
ing/cooling water flow-rate is
measured by ultrasonic flow
meter. It has a temperature
range of 0 to 150°C with a
Min.Temp differential of 2°C
and a flow-rate range of 0,05
to 23 000 m
3
/h.
Enquiries:Tel. 010 595 1831 or
FLOW MEASUREMENT
First reasonably-priced camera
package with 90° lens
The Optris PI 640 thermal imaging camera launched onto the market in 2014 is avail-
able with two additional changeable lenses.Three lenses with 33°, 60° and 90° fields
of view are now available for different measuring tasks and customer requirements.
“With this offer, we are launching the first reasonably-priced VGA thermal imaging
camera with a 90° lens”, explainsTorsten Czech, Product Marketing Manager at Optris
(represented in South Africa by Instrotech).The offer includes both calibration and
open source software.
The Optris PI 640 is used in different industries worldwide. Many applications offer
very little space between the measured object and the thermal imaging camera.This
is where IR users require greater flexibility.The proprietary software also enables the
use of the thermal imaging camera as a line scanner, allowing it to reach a scanning
angle (Field Of View, FOV) of up to 120°.
Developed, manufactured and calibrated in Germany, the lenses have unique
components, including the germanium lenses typically used in the longwave infrared
range (LWIR), where each respec-
tive lens is calibrated for the
thermal imaging camera.
The open source soft-
ware included, is free
of charge with the de-
livery. Optris offers a
discount on the cost
of adding another lens
to a thermal imaging
camera including cali-
bration.
Enquiries:
Tel. 010 595 1831 or email
sales@instrotech.co.za25
December ‘15
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