ABB Application description - Flow measurement for irrigation. Achieving accurate measurement with ABB’s electromagnetic flowmeters 应用说明文档(英语).pdf

— A B B M E A SU R EM ENT A N A LY TI C S | A PPLI C ATI O N DE SCR I P TI O N Flow measurement for irrigation Achieving accurate measurement with ABB’s electromagnetic flowmeters Accurate flow measurement for pricing and allocation in irrigation applications Measurement made easy — Achieving accurate — measurement with ABB’s electromagnetic Introduction flowmeters With irrigation accounting for 70 % of the water With a growing need to ensure that water is drawn globally for agricultural use, the need to allocated both more responsibly and more carefully manage water supplies is of paramount efficiently, however, modern irrigation systems, importance. This is particularly the case in arid utilizing pressurized pump-fed supplies, are starting countries where water supplies are less abundant. to become more commonplace. To ensure that water is being used as responsibly as possible, it is necessary to carefully measure the Irrespective of the design of the irrigation system, amount drawn for irrigation as carefully as possible. the need to manage the amount of water used means quantities need to be measured as closely as possible. In most cases, this is done for two reasons.