General

This document defines the application criteria for UFMs and addresses the appropriate considerations regarding the liquids to be measured. This document addresses the installation, operation, and maintenance of UFMs in liquid hydrocarbon service.

Field of Application

The field of application of this standard is the dynamic measurement of liquid hydrocarbons. While this document is specifically written for custody transfer measurement, other acceptable applications may include allocation measurement, check meter measurement, and leak detection measurement. This document only pertains to spool type, multi-path ultrasonic flow meters with permanently affixed acoustic transducer assemblies.

This standard can be purchase via the American Petroleum Institute (API) website www.api.org 

• Year of Declaration: 2011
• Reference: API Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards (MPMS) Chapter 5.8
• Number of Pages: 24
• Code: GYS ANSI/API MPMS 5-8
• Version: Second Edition, Reaffirmed, May 2017
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