21.09.2007
Gigantic mass and volume flows of gaseous and liquid media are transported and measured in the pipeline systems and filling plants of Germany, Europe, and worldwide, and sold to the ultimate consumer. In view of the outstanding economic importance of supplying gas, water, mineral oil, heat, and – lately - also refrigeration, and in view of the political discussions on energy efficiency, energy and cost saving, future of energy supply and alternative energy sources, the metrology of flowing media is of very central importance.
Against this background, on 3 and 4 September 2007 on the historic PTB Campus in Berlin-Charlottenburg, the 235th PTB Seminar "Zukunft der Metrologie strömender Medien" (Future of the Metrology of Flowing Media) was held with 80 participants from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Gigantic mass and volume flows of gaseous and liquid media are transported and measured in the pipeline systems and filling plants of Germany, Europe, and worldwide, and sold to the ultimate consumer. In view of the outstanding economic importance of supplying gas, water, mineral oil, heat, and – lately - also refrigeration, and in view of the political discussions on energy efficiency, energy and cost saving, future of energy supply and alternative energy sources, the metrology of flowing media is of very central importance.
Against this background, on 3 and 4 September 2007 on the historic PTB Campus in Berlin-Charlottenburg, the 235th PTB Seminar "Zukunft der Metrologie strömender Medien" (Future of the Metrology of Flowing Media) was held with 80 participants from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Following the address of welcome by Prof. Dr. Peters, Vice-president of the PTB, discussions were held by representatives of important energy suppliers, manufacturers of flow measuring technology, verification authorities, test centres and universities with the PTB participants from all concerned departments of the PTB Braunschweig and Berlin on new developments and trends in this field of work in order to sound out together which metrological challenges are to be expected in the next few years in the field of flow measurement, volumetric flow measurement and heat measuring of gaseous and liquid media.
In eighteen contributions made by competent lecturers, among others, Director Schindelar, managing director of Fernwärme Wien, Dr. Burger, managing director of the Bundesvereinigung der Firmen im Gas- und Wasserfach (FIGAWA) (German Federal Confereration of Gas and Water Companies Registered Association), Prof. Dr. Czarske, TU Dresden, Prof. Dr. von Lavante, University of Essen-Duisburg, Prof. Dr. Vorlop, Forschungsanstalt für Landwirtschaft (FAL) (Federal Research Institute for Agriculture) in Braunschweig, a broad spectrum of topical issues from the fields of heat measuring, liquid measurement, microfluidics, optical flow measurement and -diagnosis, alternative fuels, gaseous energy sources, flow measurement in the case of gases and consumption measurement for gas, water and heat were addressed.
In conclusion, Dr. Schwartz, head of the Department “Mechanics and Acoustics” of the PTB and head of the programming committee of the seminar stated in his resumé and closing words that the seminar has, due to the good resonance, the great thematic breadth as well as the good lectures and discussions, brought valuable suggestions and insights, also for the continued work of the PTB in the field of the metrology of flowing gases and liquids. He thanked lecturers, participants, organisers as well as the programming committee and last but not least the Helmholtz-Fonds (Helmholtz Foundation) for its financial support of the 235th PTB Seminar.
Figure 1: Participants of the 235th PTB Seminar "Zukunft der Metrologie strömender Medien" (Future of the Metrology of Flowing Media) on 3rd/4th September 2007 in the Berlin Institute of the PTB.
Contact person:
R. Schwartz, Abt. 1, roman.schwartz@ptb.de