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Title: Metering Research Facility Update
Author: Robert J. Mckee
Source: 1990 Gulf Coast Measurement Short Course (Now called ASGMT)
Year Published: 1990
Abstract: The natural gas industry within the United States produces, transports, and distributes some 17 trillion standard cubic feet of gas each year. In the process, virtually all gas is metered at least once, in meter sizes from 1 inch to 36 inches, at pressures above 1000 psi and below 1 psi, at temperatures below the ice point to around the boiling point, and with many different types of meters. Common types of meters include orifice and turbine meters for large flow applications, rotary and diaphragm meters for small flow applications, and ultrasonic, vortex, insertion, and other meters for special applications. It is essential to the gas industry that metering be accurate, reliable, and efficient over a wide range of conditions. The goal of the Gas Research Institute (GRl) in establishing the Metering Research Facility (MRF) is to improve the technology for gas flow measurement at field installations where the business of buying and selling gas takes place. i i Significant changes within the natural gas industry in recent years have placed increased emphasis on the need for accurate, reliable, and cost-efficient metering of natural gas. Through a series of industry workshops (Ref. 1), plans (Ref 2), and research programs (Refs. 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7), substantial improvements in metering technology have been developed. As metering needs are identified and improvements are implemented, it is necessary to evaluate the new technologies under carefully controlled field equivalent conditions. It is for the purposes of evaluating metering technology under field conditions, identifying and quantifying installation effects, providing independent accurate proving of meters, and developing criteria for acceptable, efficient, and practical metering that the MRF program has been developed.

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