DIUS National Measurement System for Flow

The current programme covers a 3 year period from October 2005 to September 2008.

The Programme's objectives are four-fold:

To provide and develop the UK’s national infrastructure for flow measurement
To carry out generic research into industrial flow measurement problems
To provide traceability to UK primary standards of the individual components of flowrate (volume, mass and time) and of all ancillary measurements (density, temperature, pressure etc) and to ensure international compatibility and credibility of the UK Standard by intercomparison with other National Standards worldwide
To disseminate the results of the work quickly and efficiently for the benefit of UK industry

To fulfil the objectives the work is divided into six themes.
These are as follows:

Linking the macro scale to micro and nano technology
Technology innovation
Meeting Emerging requirements
Supporting environmental & regulatory compliance measurement techniques
Underpinning Metrology
Knowledge transfer, management and formulation

A key requirement of the Programme is that it should have direct industrial relevance and to achieve this each programme is drawn up in consultation with industry. Consultation is ongoing through out the current programme. Click here to review the formulation of new research projects.