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Low Range Pressure Transmitter

10/10/2013 1:19 AM

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I want to monitor the room's positive pressure (30Pa, 50Pa) without using differential pressure transmitter, because room outside is hazardous area, so I should place pressure transmitter instead of differential pressure transmitter.

Kindly advice the brand and model.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Low range Pressure Transmitter

10/10/2013 2:50 AM

Differential pressure transmitters (DPMs) are ideal for the type of measurement you want to make. There are DPMs that will handle such a low pressure differential. THERE ARE ALSO OPTIONS WITH THESE THAT CAN ALLOW THEM TO OPERATE UNDER SPECIAL CONDITIONS.

Besides, if you want to MAKE SURE that you have a positive pressure in the room, you will have to monitor the pressure outside the room (hazardous area) anyway, (as well as the inside, thus requiring two transmitters)!

Don't try to figure it out yourself! Be an efficient engineer, call a vendor like Druck. Dwyer, Rosemount, Honeywell, Yokagawa, etc. and give them the details.

It seems to me that the best type of measurement for your needs is indeed by differential pressure.

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10/10/2013 3:00 AM

That's 0.00435113213 pounds per square inch

You've misplaced something.

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10/10/2013 3:52 AM

You've misplaced something.

Not necessarily. In air flow measurement, 30 to 50 Pa = 0.12 to 0.20 inWC; not uncommon for this application.

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10/10/2013 3:08 AM

As ambient pressure varies with the weather, the concept of not using a differential pressure instrument is abstruse.

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Re: Low Range Pressure Transmitter

10/10/2013 12:21 PM

Both gauge and differential pressure transmitters compare the measured pressure to a reference pressure.

A gauge pressure transmitter references atmosphere, typically through a vent somewhere, there's no separate port for the atmospheric reference. A differential pressure transmitter provides a port for each measurement.

Your application is for a dual port differential instrument: a room pressure measurement with respect to outside-the-room-pressure.

You cannot do it with two gauge pressure measurements; one inside the room, one outside the room. Both will just show 0 pressure, because gauge pressure references its immediate surrounding environment. There's no difference between an elevated room pressure and elevated room pressure. They're both the same. The difference of two identical values (gauge pressure port minus exterior environment pressure) is zero.

I've seen people hard pipe an impulse tube into a safe area. There's no flow, it's dead headed.

There are industrial DP transmitters or smaller non-industrial panel mount units that are designed for pharma or clean room use that make measurements in this range; United Electric LPS, Sensocon, Dwyer, to name a few.

The industrials could be mounted in the hazardous area and wired as EXP or I/S for a hazardous area if piping into a non-hazardous area is too much to deal with.

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10/10/2013 4:40 PM

I have seen DP's using an electrical connection instead of impulse line, I am sure they offer them for hazardous area. Check E&H website.

http://www.au.endress.com/#product/FMD72

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