Chell Instruments
 

Chell’s ISO17025 accredited UKAS Laboratory

Overview of capabilities

 

Flow Rate – Gas

Covering a wide range of flowmeter types including Transfer and Primary Standards:

  • Mass Flow Meters
  • Mass Flow Controllers
  • Variable Area Flow Meters (“Rotameters”)
  • Coriolis Meters
  • Orifice Plate & Venturi nozzles
  • Turbine & Impeller flow meters
  • Mercury sealed “Volumeters”
  • Bios 'dry cal' provers
  • Bubble meters
Calibrations are made between 1sccm (Standard cm3/min) and 3600 slpm (Std. Litre/min) with uncertainties from 0.28% at 2 l/min to 0.73%Rdg.+1.35 l/min at 3600 l/min
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Vacuum

All types of vacuum gauges and controllers are calibrated:

  • Capacitance manometers
  • Pirani & thermocouple gauges
  • Cold Cathode & inverted magnetron Ion gauges
  • Vacuum transducers & transmitters
  • Vacuum gauges and switches
  • Spinning rotor gauges

 

Calibrations range from 1.3 x 10-4 Pa to 133 kPa with uncertainties from 6% +4 x 10-5 Pa at 1.3 x 10-4 Pa to 0.2% + 3Pa at 13.3Pa.
 
Gas Pressure (absolute)

This service covers all types of vacuum and pressure measuring devices, as Vacuum, above, plus:

  • Resonant and quartz bourdon type transducers
  • Vibrating element transducers
  • Precision pressure generators & transfer standards
  • Air Data and Pitot Static Test Sets
  • Pressure Scanners – inc. high density
  • High accuracy capacitance manometers
  • Precision aneroid barometers
  • Standard test gauges
  • Digital pressure indicators & calibrators

 

Calibrations range from 1.3 x 10-4 Pa to 7 MPa with uncertainties from 6% +4 x 10-5 Pa at 1.3 x 10-4 Pa to 0.0020% + 0.25Pa at 350 kPa.
   
Gas Pressure (Gauge)

All types of both atmosphere and negative pressure referenced devices are calibrated:

  • Pressure transducers / transmitters
  • Micro-manometers
  • Inclined manometers
  • Capacitance manometers
  • Differential pressure switches


Calibrations range from –100kPa to 7MPa with uncertainties from 0.15% + 0.04 Pa at 133 Pa to 0.0020% + 0.21Pa at 350 kPa.

   
Gas Pressure (Differential)

This service is especially tailored to the calibration of aircraft pressure instruments to BS2G199 at line pressures up to 206 kPa:

  • Air Data and Pitot Static Test Sets
  • Airspeed Indicators
  • Altimeters
  • Rate of Climb (Vertical Speed) Meters
 
   

 

If you have any questions or would like to know more details about our calibration laboratory and the service it provides, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Email address
Telephone 01692 500555
Fax number 01692 500088



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