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Katronic’s KATflow 150 Superior clamp-on flowmeter has gained approval via the UK Surroundings Company’s MCERTS scheme for measurement of effluent and different wastewater flows in industrial and wastewater firm functions after an intensive programme of testing each within the lab and on web site.
To realize the usual, Katronic needed to undertake a three-part testing and approval course of, which included a manufacturing unit inspection, intensive laboratory testing, which was carried out at WRC, the UK’s main water and wastewater analysis centre, and concerned accuracy measurements over a number of days in quite a lot of pipe supplies, throughout a variety of pipe diameters and temperatures. Solely as soon as the KATflow 150 had handed that exacting problem may we go on to the third stage of testing, a subject check towards an present MCERTS accepted meter to substantiate ‘real-world’ efficiency.
The outcomes of the manufacturing unit inspection, subject and lab assessments had been collated and equipped to the certifying authority, CSA Group, and Katronic’s MCERTS certificates was issued in mid-2023. A protracted course of, to make certain, however a invaluable one and a powerful reinforcement of Katronic product high quality and accuracy. Clients requiring MCERTS certification ought to request MCERTS on the level of enquiry to be sure that the proper labelling and documentation is equipped. MCERTS is knowledgeable by BS EN 17694 -2 – Hydrometry, which defines minimal requirements for measurement instrumentation in closed conduits.
