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MULTICHANNEL ULTRASONIC 

FLOW METER

 

AFLOWT UF

 

 

WITH CLAMP-ON TRANSDUCERS 

VERSION UF-5xx d 

 
 
 

OPERATION MANUAL 

PART II 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

ISO 9001:2008

 
 
 
  

Summary of Contents for UF-5 Series

Page 1: ...MULTICHANNEL ULTRASONIC FLOW METER AFLOWT UF WITH CLAMP ON TRANSDUCERS VERSION UF 5xx d OPERATION MANUAL PART II ISO 9001 2008 ...

Page 2: ...g the Additional Lag Padd 8 2 5 Settings for Processing of Measurement Results 8 2 6 Flowmeter Date and Time Correction 9 2 7 Setting Transition to Daylight Saving Standard Time Mode 9 2 8 Setting KC and Kp factors 9 3 OPERATION PROCEDURE 11 3 1 Displaying calculated values 11 3 2 Controlling Batching 11 3 3 Viewing logs and historical data 13 4 TROUBLESHOOTING 14 APPENDIX A Display System 16 APPE...

Page 3: ...ith clamp on transducers and is intended as a guide for its proper use LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS CS PS ER PEA USS Secondary measuring converter Pipeline section Error Electro acoustic converter Ultrasonic signal NOTE Words in the text marked in bold for example Settings cor respond to the items displayed on the flowmeter s screen ...

Page 4: ...ification depend on the flowmeter s operating mode 1 1 2 The CS keyboard has eighteen buttons functionality and description of which are given in Appendix C The keyboard allows you to do the following Navigate the hierarchical menu and windows Efficiently control indication on the display Input configuration data View data and status logs 1 1 3 The display shows the menu window name which is displ...

Page 5: ...ine and stops in the place of the lower scroll indicator The procedure of searching the list in the opposite direction using button is similar 1 1 6 To navigate to a lower level menu window or to activate a menu item a setting you need to set this menu item a setting and the cursor in the same line and press button To return to a parent window menu press button To leave active state without changi...

Page 6: ... enter a new setting value using buttons 0 9 or to change digits on their positions using but tons Pressing button once makes the digit marked by the cursor to increase decrease by one To move the cursor to another digit press buttons By pressing button you enter the assigned numeric setting val ue while pressing button will cancel the procedure return back to a previous value 1 2 3 Entering a set...

Page 7: ...PEA pair Axial dist calc submenu is used to enter the ultrasound velocity in the measured medium Cx and read the recommended value Lx 2 2 Defining zero offset dT0 2 2 1 Zero offset dT0 shall be defined when the flow in the pipeline is fully stopped Open Settings menu and select Calibration Zero calibra tion Automated Run calibr line Start calibration procedure by se lecting Start value After calib...

Page 8: ...cessing of Measurement Results 2 4 1 Open Settings Processing settings menu and enter setting value Median median averaging buffer size Mean arithmetic averaging buffer size KP exponential filter factor 0 95 by default Inert time lag it is not advisable to set it to less than 10 s Accel maximum speed of flow velocity variation Cut minimal flowrate cutoff LW low setpoint for flowrate UP high setpoi...

Page 9: ... hour back In user defined mode the user can set the transition time In case the transition func tionality is turned off the device clock keep time countdown according to standard time only 2 6 2 To set the transition mode activate Settings System settings Time settings Time mode change Mode option and select one of the fol lowing values standard or user defined In the Standard mode you may see th...

Page 10: ...dots and one line up the KC value is displayed 2 7 2 To calculate the Kp factor open menu PULSE OUTPUT X and enter values for Qut and settings Calculation procedure for Kp is similar to that for KC If the calculated KC Kp value does not suit the user for whatso ever reason he can set a lesser value for KC and a greater for Kp Meanwhile Qut Qlt and Fmax Qut and values do not change If considering t...

Page 11: ...he current channel status word The complete channel status word see table D 1 s displayed in menu Status logs Current status CURR STATUS chan X To determine the alarm situation ER type that occur in the meas urement channel and is displayed in the window of zoomed indication of measured value as the character in the status word open window Status logs Current status CURR STATUS chan X ER ER chan X...

Page 12: ...is window displays the preset Ve and measured Vb batch volume values and batching time Tmeas Batch accumulation stops either when accumulated volume equals the preset value or when the operator gives the command In the start stop mode the batching process stops only when the operator gives the command To stop the batching process select option Ctrl in this window and press button After the batchin...

Page 13: ...terval To find a record activate the line and enter the required log inter val In case the entered interval is present in the log you will move to this or the nearest interval by pressing button If it is not present the last line will display the message No search conducted 3 3 2 To view log records select the log type Status logs Error logs Fail ure log Mode log The procedure to view log records ...

Page 14: ...value zoomed indica tion window open window STATUS LOGS Current status CURR STATUS chan X ER ER chan X of the corresponding channel Besides the ER situation type name this window shows the ER situa tion start time and duration 4 3 An ER situation is an event characterized by mismatch of measured values and flowmeter metrological characteristics or by impossibility of measurements due to the violat...

Page 15: ...wmeter resumes flowrate measuring and accumulating volume batch starting from the volume batch value accumulated by the time of USS failure USS failure is recorded to the ER log and the dead time value is increased by the USS failure duration value 4 5 In case the flowrate value exceeds the preset upper limit value or is less then the lower limit value the ER with the same name is registered and a...

Page 16: ...from the list Words within angle brackets represent the essence meaning or possible values of a setting Window or menu item setting is displayed only in the SETUP mode Window or menu item setting are displayed in modes SERVICE and SETUP Icon representing the mode is missing Window or menu item setting is displayed in all modes OPERATION SERVICE SETUP Setting settings modification or transition to ...

Page 17: ...17 Fig A 1 Main menu ...

Page 18: ...18 Fig A 2 Menu FLOW DATA ...

Page 19: ...s determined by the PEA hookup scheme in MAIN STNGS chan X menu see table B 3 Fig A 3 Menus and windows for indicating characteristics of the pipeline section adjusting signals and processing measurement and cali bration results ...

Page 20: ...20 Fig A 4 Menu WALL MATER and COAT MATER Fig A 5 Menu Process depend data ...

Page 21: ...21 not displayed in case Mode setting is assigned no change value Fig A 6 Menu SYSTEM SETTINGS ...

Page 22: ...22 Fig A 7 Menu PERIPHERY SETTINGS ...

Page 23: ...23 Fig A 8 Menu STATUS LOGS ...

Page 24: ...24 Fig A 9 Menu DATA LOGS ...

Page 25: ...ty m s 3 4 Date Current date flowmeter time XX XX XX dd mm yy Time Current time flowmeter time XX XX XX hh mm ss Table B 2 Representation of the parameter being displayed Parameter Name measurement units Allowed val ues Value after initiali zation Notes BATCHER Sel batch Batch setting method setting of value or selecting a preset value ENTERED BATCH1 2 8 ENTERED Ve Preset batch value m3 l 0 000 10...

Page 26: ... pipeline diameter value mm 10 01 15999 85 does not change Dtr Average outer pipeline diameter value in the longitudinal plane of PEA installation mm 10 16000 does not change Wall mat Pipeline wall material list Carbon steel hw Average value of pipeline wall thickness mm 0 01 99 99 1 Coat mat Material of the inner coating of the pipeline list No coating hcoat Thickness of the inner coating of the ...

Page 27: ...0 9999999 0 UP High setpoint for flowrate m3 h l min 0 9999999 5 Vmax Correction of the flow velocity m s 0 99 9999 10 6000 Flow sign Liquid flow direction sign Units Flowrate volume measure ment units m3 h m3 l min l m3 s m3 m3 h m3 Config Flowmeter configuration Multichan Multipath Multichan CALIBRATION dT0 Zero offset µs 999 999 999 99987 0 Cref Reference ultrasound velocity km s 0 00000 6 0000...

Page 28: ...ge CONNECT SETTINGS Address Flowmeter address in the RS interface network 1 247 1 Speed Transfer rate Baud 1200 2400 4800 9600 19200 38400 57600 115200 19200 Delay Lag for response via interface ms 0 125 50 Pause Idle time between sending bytes ms 1 1000 5 Statistics Total Total amount of requests to all devices in the network 0 65535 0 Own Number of requests to this flowmeter 0 65535 0 CRC error ...

Page 29: ... by flowrate for the universal output in the fre quency mode m 3 h l min m 3 s 0 999999 93 300 Qlt Lower limit by flowrate for the universal output in the fre quency mode m 3 h l min m 3 s 0 999999 93 0 Fmax Maximum output frequency Hz 0 3000 3000 Active level Output voltage level when the signal is present logical 1 low high low Fcur Current frequency value 0 3000 Status Output status intact faul...

Page 30: ... identifier see Table B 6 Qut High setpoint by flowrate for current output m 3 h l min 0 999999 93 300 Qlt Low limit by flowrate for current output m 3 h l min 0 999999 93 0 Icur Current value of current mA 0 001 Kfilter Filtration factor 0 40 1 Status Output operation characteristic no errors value UT value LT no errors Table B 6 Allowed functions for pulse frequency logical and current out puts ...

Page 31: ...displayed Parameter Name measurement units Value range rep resentation form Value after initialization Notes ERROR LOGS Ter Event duration XX XX XX hh mm ss 0 Data of event start or end XX XX XX dd mm yy Time of event start or end XX XX XX hh mm ss Curr record Sequential number of the rec ord to be searched for after entering the new value 1 1000 does not change CURR STATUS chan X ER Measuring cha...

Page 32: ...96 daily log XX XX hh mm monthly log XXX XX hh mm Vx Volume for direct flow m 3 l 0 999999000 Vx Volume for reverse flow m 3 l 0 999999000 ΣVx Total volume considering floe direction m 3 l 0 999999000 DATA LOG Batch log Vx e Preset batch value m 3 l 0 1000000 0 Vx b Measured batch value m 3 l 0 9999990 0 Tb Batching time s 0 65535 Qavg Average flowrate per batching time INTERVAL LOG SETTING Rate I...

Page 33: ...ric values moving the cursor along the number digits to the right 2 When viewing log records incrementing the record number 3 When searching similar menus windows transition to the menu win dow with greater sequential number or to the next log interval 4 When selecting menu item parameter log record value from the list navigating down the list 1 Transition to the selected menu window of lower leve...

Page 34: ...er 2 Operator s error in the second beam 11 Oper er 3 Operator s error in the 3 beam 12 Oper er 4 Operator s error in the 4 beam 13 Q Qup Flowrate exceeds the high setpoint 14 Q Qlw Flowrate is less than the low setpoint 15 Inert time Lag time Table D 2 Status word of quantized outputs universal outputs Number of the po sition Appearance of indication Event description 1 DS0 ER or failure on the u...

Page 35: ...the preset pulse width can be generated on the output within the interval equal to that of volume measurement in the pulse operation mode Flowrate value is beyond the set lower or upper limit in the frequency mode Output failure Table D 3 Status word of failures Number of the position Appearance of indication Event description 1 Conn fail Failure of connection with the transducer 2 Clock fail The ...

Page 36: ...value Make sure that the parameters are set correctly 4 Q Qut Flowrate exceeds the frequency out put upper limit Make sure that the parameters are set correctly 5 Q Qlt Flowrate is less than the frequency output upper limit Make sure that the parameters are set correctly 6 Q Qlt1 Q Qlt2 Flowrate is less than the current out put lower limit Make sure that the parameters are set correctly 7 Q Qut1 Q...

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