Flow computer for gases, steam
and heat and coolant fluids

Flow computer flowcom at a glance

Flow computer flowcom: Most flow meters have errors depending on pressure and temperature. To compensate these errors, we have developed version 2 of our flow computer flowcom. In addition, the flowcom can also calculate the heat quantity and power of fluid flows.

The flowcom is a compensation computer that can be easily set up using a comfortable Windows software or via font keyboard. It compensates the influence of pressure and temperature on the flow measurement of gases, steam and liquids. It also calculates the power and heat quantity for heating and cooling media. In the dual-channel version, it even balances feed- and return systems. As a special highlight, the flowcom heat and power computer does not calculate according to faulty equations, but determines densities and enthalpies from integrated faultless tables.

The flowcom flow computer corrects flow meters for gases, steam, refrigerants or heat transfer media with pressure and temperature to mass flow or standard volume flow. Besides the actual flow and power, it totalizes to total mass and heat and can also calculate a heat quantity from the feed and return. It does not matter what type of flow meter you connect. The flowcom can handle differential pressure elements (deltaflow, orifice plate, pitot tube, venturi, V-cone...), volumetric measurement methods (vortex, MID...), mechanical methods with pulse outputs (turbine, oval gear meter, quantometer...) or mass flow signals (Coriolis, thermoanemometer...).

The new flowcom2 is housed in an extremely robust IP65/67 aluminium case that is weather- and shockproof. With its large display and extremely simple menu structure, the flowcom can be easily setup for any application within minutes, even without the included Windows software. If a PC is available, the setup can be done even easier, using the Windows based setup software and connecting the flowcom2 via USB.

The flowcom2 Windows software is not only for easy setup, but can also be used to observe all actual measured values and offers the possibility, to analyse past operation errors, download datalogs and integrate own physical unit systems to the flowcom.

Thanks to the USB interface and Modbus, digital connection to a PC or DCS is child's play. The tried-and-tested parameterisation software, which has set the industry standard for user-friendliness, is virtually unchanged from flowcom1.