Heat Meters
Heat Meters measure the quantity
of heated water supplied to various installations. Heat metering and consumption-based billing are at the heart of a variety of technical and
institutional measures that enable the “commodification of heat” in centralized heating
systems. Metering determines the quantity of heat delivered and exchanging hands in a heat transaction, and
paying for the amount of heat acquired validates and completes the market
exchange.
Measuring heat can result in the following
benefits:
- Fair apportioning of costs
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Identification of control problems
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Basis for plant efficiency checks
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Verification of efficiency gain claims
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Heat Meters are suitable for:
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Industrial users
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Large apartment buildings
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Swiming pools
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Restaurants
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Heat meters assignments:
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BUILDING-LEVEL HEAT METER. The heat consumption of an entire building is
metered with a heat meter, which is installed at the heat entrance point (i.e., the
connection with the secondary network, the heat exchanger, or the boiler plant
which exclusively provides the heat for the whole building). The entire building is
billed according to the metered heat consumption, which is then allocated to
individual apartments based on the floor area.
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HEAT COST ALLOCATOR (OR DISTRIBUTOR). In addition to metering the heat
consumption of the entire building (as in BUILDING-LEVEL), the heat emissions of each
individual heat radiator in an apartment are “measured” with evaporative or
electronic devices. The total cost of the heat consumption of the building
(including the billing costs) is allocated to the individual apartments partially
according to the floor area and partially based on the readings of the
allocators.
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HOT WATER FLOW METER. The amount of hot water circulating through the
radiators of individual apartments is measured. This measurement serves as the
basis for distributing the building heating costs (metered as in BUILDING-LEVEL) to the
individual apartments. This option also implicitly requires (assumes) that water
temperature at the entrance of each apartment is the same for all apartments in the
building.
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APARTMENT-LEVEL HEAT METER. The heat consumption of each apartment is
measured with a heat meter, which is a scaled-down version of the building heat
meter. The apartment-level heat meter can serve to allocate heat expenses to an individual apartment (as in option B), but more often it is used for
direct billing based on the heat supply contract.
The Closed Joint-Stock Society "Centrpribor" is
manufacturer and supplier on ultrasonic flow meters successful in measuring all
types of liquids including water, hydraulic oil, condensate, petroleum products,
natural gas and etc. Heat meters UFEC, manufactured by JSC Centrpribor deliver greater accuracy, simple operation as well as rugged reliability for a wide range of process conditions including district heating, water and treated wastewater and petro-chemical processes
