
Integrated Water Meter Management
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Integrated Water Meter Management is a comprehensive reference for engineers and managers alike, providing: in-depth technical information allowing the true nature and behaviour of meters to be understood; a comprehensive review and comparison of relevant global water meter technologies - a useful tool to help decide which water meter is best for your utility; discussion of key decisions concerning the use of water meters (when to replace them, which one to use, how to control their quality) from a managerial perspective. Integrated Water Meter Management is an invaluable resource for those involved in urban water management, including water utility managers, engineering technical staff, operations and maintenance specialists, meter-reading personnel and scientific researchers in this discipline.
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- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- About the authors
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. An interdisciplinary matter
- 1.3. Structure of this book
- 2. Water meters
- 2.1. Single jet meters
- 2.2. Multiple jet meters
- 2.3. Oscillating piston meters
- 2.4. Nutating disc meters
- 2.5. Woltmann meters
- 2.6. Combination (compound) meters
- 2.7. Paddle wheel meters
- 2.8. Proportional meters
- 3. Flow meters
- 3.1. Ultrasonic flow meters
- 3.2. Electromagnetic flow meters
- 3.3. Insertion flow meters
- 4. Remote meter reading
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Traditional meter reading
- 4.3. Remote meter reading
- 4.4. Data handling stages
- 4.5. Information provided by a remote reading system
- 5. Integrated water meter management
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Selection of the meter model
- 5.3. Quality control
- 5.4. General recommendations for the installation of meters
- 5.5. Metering systems audits
- 5.6. Maintenance and renewal of meters in a utility
- 5.7. Conclusions
- 6. How accurate are your meters?
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Determining the demand patterns
- 6.3. Obtaining the error curve
- 6.4. Calculating how accurate your meters are
- 6.5. Other methods to assess the weighted error of a meter
- 6.6. Factors affecting the quality of water consumption measurement
- 7. Maintenance and renewal of meters in a utility
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Restrictions
- 7.3. Choosing the right meter
- 7.4. Economic study
- 7.5. Case study
- 7.6. Is it worth going from Class B to Class C?
- 7.7. Using the commercial information system to analyse the behaviour of meters
- 8. Meter testing
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Types of test benches
- 8.3. Test bench layout
- 8.4. Testing procedures
- 8.5. Testing for error curve verification on the field
- 8.6. Uncertainty analysis during tests
- 8.7. Reference standards
- 9. Quality control
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Sampling plans
- 9.3. Definitions
- 9.4. Description of the quality control procedure
- 9.5. Application to the reception of meter batches
- 10. Standards and technical guidelines
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Metrological characteristics
- 10.3. Technical parameters
- 10.4. ISO Standards
- 10.5. Recommendations of the International Organization of Legal Metrology
- 10.6. Standards from the European Committee for Standardization (CEN)
- 10.7. American Water Works Association/American National Standard Institute Standards
- 10.8. European Union Directives
- Bibliography
- Index
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