Pictured above is one of 6 ASME MFC-3M orifice flow metering systems that were built by PFS according to ASME B31.1 and each includes the orifice meter run, a 19 tube concentric flow conditioner tube bundle, 3 sets of ½” NPT pressure taps and a redundant secondary instrument system that is factory mounted onto the metering pipe section for ease of maintenance and field calibration.
Each of the orifice meter runs were laboratory flow calibrated to confirm performance and two 10.0” systems will be used for natural gas measurement with two each of the 6.0” and 2.0” meter runs used on hydrogen flow measurement. The power plant is scheduled to start-up in 2025 using natural gas for the turbine fuel and, over time, blend natural gas with hydrogen and, eventually by 2045, fuel the turbine with 100% hydrogen.
The new natural gas fired turbines will be the first of their kind capable of burning a mix of 70% natural gas and 30% green hydrogen when the plant comes online in 2025. The orifice metering systems are being used to manage and maintain the blending process as well as providing high accuracy flow measurement data.
PFS Inc. continues to be on the cutting edge of flow measurement projects for the power, oil, gas, chemical, water and wastewater markets with over 1 million units in service around the world.
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