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Turbine Flow Meter (TFM) Field Calibration Uncommon Request

Instrumentation engineering root cause analysis of turbine flow meter (TFM) field calibration in a urea plant.

Last updated: September 28, 2022 2:56 pm
S Raghava Chari
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Instrumentation engineering root cause analysis of turbine flow meter (TFM) field calibration in a urea plant.

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Turbine Flow Meter (TFM) ProblemAuthor solutionBenefits Realized
Article Type:Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Category:Instrumentation
Equipment Type:Sensors
Author:S. Raghava Chari

Note: This root cause analysis (RCA) is from real-time scenarios that happened in industries during the tenure of two or three decades ago. These articles will help you to improve your troubleshooting skills and knowledge.

Turbine Flow Meter (TFM) Problem

The US Process Licensor (UPL) insisted to calibrate the liquid NH3 flow through the turbine flow meter (TFM) before the urea plant guarantee test.

He turned a deaf ear to the author’s explanation that field calibration is rare and impractical; users trust the manufacturer calibration, which is stable over long periods.

Also Read: Turbine Flow Meter Calibration Procedure

Author solution

He connected a fire hydrant with a fire hose to the turbine flow meter (TFM) inlet, collected the TFM exiting the water in a chassis-mounted tanker that haul 25000 kg Phosphoric acid from the port to the plant (below figure), and weighed the empty and water-filled tanker.

Turbine Flow Meter (TFM) Field Calibration

The instrument crew set the TFM read-out counter’s scalar switches each count for 50 Kg Water flows the least the readout permits to maximize reading accuracy.

The TFM integrator read flow quantities at 33%, 66%, and 100% of max TFM flow rates differed from weighed quantities by 0.1% only against the

The turbine flow meters (TFM’s) guaranteed 0.25% uncertainties. The instrument crew calibrated and found the road weigh scale that weighed the tanker was 0.02% accurate against the guaranteed 0.046% i.e. around 6 times more accurate than the TM guaranteed accuracies.

Benefits Realized

Realized benefits are:

  1. The satisfied process licensor completed the guarantee test,
  2. The guarantee test identified 5% higher than guaranteed specific ammonia consumption per ton of urea.
  3. The licensor root cause analyzed and corrected the deficiencies
  4. The repeat guarantee test shown ammonia specific consumption was acceptable
  5. The vendor got his final payment and left
  6. The correct ammonia specific consumptions benefit the plant too forever.

Author: S. Raghava Chari

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