Modern, efficiently designed buildings don’t have too much space, they have just enough. Engineers are often challenged by architectural design to find enough free space to install and maintain all of the required mechanical equipment. Even tougher when you consider the additional space required for accessibility, duct, piping, wiring, on and on.
We in the instrumentation world are looking for nice, long, straight runs of duct and piping so we can achieve accurate and reliable flow measurements.
Instrumentation requires straight runs for two simple reasons.
So, what do we do when we require accuracy and or repeatability, but are unable to meet the manufacturers installation guidelines?
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