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GE Introduces the World´s First Portable Clamp-On Gas
Ultrasonic Flowmeter
Waltham, MA - June 8, 2004 - GE Infrastructure Sensing, a leading provider of flowmeters, hygrometers and oxygen analyzers, today introduced the TransPort ™ PT878GC, a clamp-on portable flowmeter for gas flow measurement. The TransPort PT878GC is the only portable clamp-on ultrasonic gas flowmeter available today.
Designed for natural gas pipeline, compressed air, inert gas, or compressed gas applications, the rugged TransPort PT878GC provides users with a robust portable platform for clamp-on gas flow survey work. This new flowmeter has the ability to measure gas flow rates, log data to internal memory and export flow data to a computer. Users can perform flow survey work for up to eight hours using the flowmeter´s battery power. The unit also has an optional thickness gage, which allows users to verify pipe wall thickness - a critical parameter enabling proper meter setup and function.
"This new product is the world´s only portable clamp-on gas flowmeter," said Michael Scelzo, product line leader at GE Infrastructure Sensing. "It expands our product portfolio in clamp-on ultrasonic gas flow metering, and gives customers with gas applications the option of portability that they´ve never had before."
The TransPort PT878GC combines new clamp-on gas ultrasonic transducer technology with advanced signal processing, allowing flow measurement for any gas in pipe sizes ranging from four to 24 inches in diameter and for pressures as low as 60 psig. It is especially useful for metering erosive, corrosive, toxic, high-purity or sterile gases, or for any application where penetrating the pipe wall is undesirable. No tapping or cutting of the pipe is necessary, which reduces installation costs, and the meter requires little maintenance since it has no wetted or moving parts. It causes no pressure drop and has very wide turndown.
About GE Infrastructure
GE Infrastructure is a high-technology platform comprised of some of the fastest-growing businesses within GE. With 2004 revenues expected to approach $3.5 billion, they represent a set of advanced protection and productivity solutions to some of the most pressing issues that industries face - pure water, safe facilities, plant automation and detecting changes in the operating environment. GE Infrastructure is headquartered in Wilton, CT.
About GE Infrastructure Sensing
GE has united the technological innovation and experience of industry leaders in the design and manufacture of advanced sensing and measurement solutions into one world-class business - GE Infrastructure Sensing. This new business, with operations around the world, offers a broad range of products and services that help customers solve challenges and drive productivity.
GE Infrastructure Sensing’s precision instruments and systems measure temperature, pressure, liquid level, humidity, gas concentration, and flow rate for applications ranging from environmental, medical and pharmaceutical to automotive, aerospace, chemical and petrochemical. Using technologies such as infrared detection, ultrasonics and MEMS, GE Infrastructure Sensing helps customers monitor, protect, calibrate, control and validate their critical processes and applications.
GE Thermometrics, GE NovaSensor, GE Panametrics, GE General Eastern, GE Kaye, GE Druck and GE Ruska are now under one name: GE Infrastructure Sensing.
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