Flow meters in condensate recirculation lines

Hi ,

It has been generally observed that in condensate recirculation lines ( LCA30) of power plants, due to upstream and downstream straight pipe requirements for pressure differential flow meter, the line is sometimes run straight for a length and then
looped back with a 180 deg return and thus unneccesarily space is reserved for it.

Couldn't we replace that horizontally installed pressure differential flow meter by a vertically installed variable area flow meter and do away with the upstream and downstream straight lengths and save both material and space.

Regards,
Paritosh Garg Received on Mon Nov 08 09:45:00 2004