UFR - UNMEASURED-FLOW REDUCER
The Problem - Unaccounted For Water (non-revenue water) Every water system has to cope with unaccounted for water. Pipeline losses, theft, and unmeasured flow all contribute to the percentage of water that goes unmetered. Unmeasured water is non-revenue water. Below a meter's design point, water can flow at a rate which can account for as much as 25,000 gallons per household of unbilled water annually; water that is wasted and must be treated by the public wastewater system.
UFR - The Solution The UFR captures this low flow water and forces it through the meter in a way that causes nearly every drop to be registered by the water meter. Losses are reduced and customers are billed for the proper amount being used.
HOW THE UFR WORKS The UFR works by changing the way that the water flows through the water meter at low flow rates. At low flow rates there is not enough energy in the flow to activate the water meter. With a UFR installed the same flow is divided into measurable quantities of water that pass through the water meter at intervals which have enough energy to register on the meter; causing low flow water to be measured and capturing lost revenue. At higher flow rates, the UFR is fully open, allowing the water to flow normally with minimal head loss. As flow is reduced, the UFR returns to its operation of batching the water flow.
THE RESULTS UFR installations can increase the measurement of billable water between as much as five and ten percent.
- UFR 2.5 Inch Meter Coupling
- UFR Angle Dual Check Valve
- UFR Application Brochure
- 3210-401 Instruction Sheet 6/09
- 3210-402 Instruction Sheet 6/09
- UFR Kit for 5/8
- UFR Straight Coupling
- UFR Yoke Expansion Connection
- UFR Inline Dual Check Valve
- UFR Inline Accessible Dual Check Valve
- UFR Angle Single Check Valve
- UFR 10 Series Meter Resetters
- UFR Calculator
- UFR Meter Coupling Components Call-outs
- UFR White Paper
- Watts Bar Testimonial
- Average Indoor Water Use Report
- Trials to Quantify and Reduce in-situ Meter Under- Registration
- Reduction of Apparent Losses Using the UFR
- Meter Under-Registration Caused by Ball Valves
- How Does the UFR Work video - Right Click to Download
- How Does the UFR Work video - Streaming
- UFR PowerPoint
- IBM and Dubuque, Iowa Partner on Smarter City Initiative - Reuters
- IBM Sets Out to Make a City in Iowa 'Smarter' - New York Times
- IBM and Dubuque, Iowa Partner on Smarter City Initiative - CNBC
- IBM and Dubuque, Iowa Partner on Smarter City Initiative
- AtlantaWaterShortage.com
- Water Meter Changeouts
- Global Water Shortage Article
- Water Conservation
- Leak Detection Tech Brief
- Water Meters Tech Brief
- Unaccounted For Water Puzzle
- Cases in Water Conservation
- Water Conservation Measures
- Drip Calculator
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