PVL has an innovative solution for companies who want to have compressed air or other gas flowmeters permanently installed in multiple locations, but for whom the cost would be prohibitively high.

PVL has an innovative solution for companies who would like to have compressed air or other gas flowmeters permanently installed in multiple locations, but for whom the cost would be prohibitively high. The PVL alternative is a flowmeter that can be easily moved between any number of pipes, quickly and easily, with simple press-in, pull-out insertion and removal. Making this possible is a new design of manifold with a built-in ball valve.

When you want to move the flowmeter to a new location, you simply close the ball valve to stop the air flow, remove the probe, cap off the pipe, and then re-open the ball valve to restart the air flow - an operation that takes seconds.

Installing the flowmeter into a different pipe is just as easy.

The manifold has been designed so that the flowmeter probe auto-inserts to the correct depth and orientation.

The probe itself is a mass flow meter design, optimised for accuracy, and suitable for pipes from 1inch diameter up to 6inches diameter.

The innovative design is based on the successful PVL ClimaAir technology, and is available with a 4-20mA analogue output, a frequency output, or with a user-settable switched output.

Combining compact construction and easy installation with a robust design, the flowmeter is suitable for use with a wide range of gases including air, oxygen, nitrogen, helium, argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and many different hydrocarbons.

This new technique is ideal for Monitoring compressed air consumption.

Judging by the number of enquiries received, many companies are still having difficulty in measuring the 'actual' flow rate of their compressed air system.

Referring to the manufacturers label on the compressor can often give very misleading information.

For example a CFM rating may only refer to the Free Air Delivery of the compressor, which in reality can differ a great deal from what is actually flowing though the system.

Why take the risk of fitting an expensive flowmeter when the output could be grossly inaccurate because the flowmeter is either too small or too big for the actual flow that is to be measured.

What is needed is an easy to use device to accurately measure the air flow by taking into account the pressure, the temperature, the air speed and the diameter of the pipe.

The ClimaAir Kit can be used just as simply as a voltmeter or ammeter.

Just plug it in and within seconds it will display m3/hr accurately.