MeterManager release notes.

Version 2.3.0.0 – Released 16 September 2024

64bit Client Checksums:

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SHA256    059E3B4AA42AACEE94462929230E19B6CFCC63B0B7434C4E5BEF73F128448503

64bit Server Checksums:

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SHA256    5E3FDF27BF6413D5E2E7AB33945F98D5ED182D3713213635FB7ACC501C45A34F

The following changes have been made:

• Added ISO 20765-5 calculation for viscosity (formula 9)
• Added support for the Yokogawa EJA110E transmitter in B002 DP transmitter uncertainty block
• Various display issues corrected – K132, K134, K143, K200, F070, F400
• New Uncertainty Module UN-309 has been added – Gas Cone Meter (User entered density)
• Enabled UN-221 Gas Vortex uncertainty module to be calculated over a range of flow velocities
• Corrected issue with UN-308 inputs display
• Various display issues corrected – UN116, UN-201, UN-208, UN-221, UN502, UN301
• Dynamic Uncertainty added additional configuration rules and display improvements
• Performance improvements when displaying information from large instrument databases
• Various instrument management improvements: calibration history default date range, calibration attachment indicator, instrument administration, additional configurability for user roles
• Various Meter Performance Manager improvements: prove units,  performance curve print, control chart displays, user display colouring
• Various Logbook display improvements

Version 2.2.0.0 – Released 26 September 2023

64bit Client Checksums:

MD5          6C21021F8A0E6BF51A7D0FFF01D25EB6

SHA1
2DAC9956F8CB921B332879A5470AA4C3CD68DC69
          

SHA256
89FBC211567E4D87F0794E9BA9AC0FDC912941F07FE734C01C72F461389E13B9

64bit Server Checksums:

MD5          222563B08E284FC53E7D3896301AC10C

SHA1
A61E0F74CBCBA9F2D7BCA069DB432C0D5054861B
         

SHA256
651BB0A267F278E84D378F2D2683DC77F87139E8E1B4620AB30211A9800E4108

The following changes have been made:

• Improvement in Session Report Logic within KMM for large data sets
• New Uncertainty Module UN-502 has been added to calculate Liquid
  Cone Flow Rate
• NullReferenceException error resolved by amending multimeter output
  in Dynamic Uncertainty
• Added additional login security functionality to lock a user when
  they incorrectly log in 6 times.
• Meter Performance Manager charts auto scale issue which was occurs
  when extrapolation function was unchecked has been corrected.
• Meter performance monitoring- Control Chart Mean and limits
  Calculation corrected on removal of proves which improves Rolling and
  Fixed type charts.

Version 2.1.0.0 – Released 26 May 2023

64bit Client Checksums:
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SHA256                8B2E3E9B3434246646C6C23FC3141C917232BA5DD3768DB86C6939578C81900E

64bit Server Checksums:
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SHA256                024717D33E440CB5D272532F2D5B5152E0E1F5A5806B905C004E952E53EF31E0

The following changes have been made:

• Added Energy unit in output for Flowrate test.
• Correction to C400 Calculation
• An issue with visualising and editing/saving site field information after opening a piece of equipment was corrected
• Display issues for Equipment display List and Equipment Type Fields in the Equipment module, were corrected
• Modification to Instrument Management Test forms K132 & K134: “Vapour pressure”, default can now be replaced with “calculated line density”
• Meter Performance Monitoring – Curve Chart and control Chart enhancements.
• Home screen UI improvements

Version 2.0.0.0 – Released 6 January 2023

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SHA256                 50CC13C5D31B2964010B403DD138D75445842C6090B481CC86CDBDC5BEA38436

64bit Server Checksums:
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SHA256                  6E210286657E57ADE5BB74F81FAE2D52A5CEA31215FAE0FF78B6B3BB50762C26

The following changes have been made:

• User Navigation rationalised
• Keyword search added to KMM logbook
• Hierarchy child automatic deselection issue resolved
• Document attached indication added to right of equipment Tag/Serial no. in KMM Instrument Management
• Edit recently added data in Meter Manager without needing to quit and re-open the application functionality added
• History navigation from equipment serial number to selected equipment history functionality added
• OPC DA tags read and written by batch to remove tag limit and significantly reduce processor overhead.
• Inputs, Intermediates and Composition and outputs written to the OPC server functionality added
• Outdated Kelton logo on calibration certificates issue resolved

Version 1.8.5.0 – Released 16 May 2022

64bit Client Checksums:

• MD5 – 93B93E1666065BD38161349014D430F0
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64bit Server Checksums:

• MD5 – 9F1B0AA3CB86B175AC0447289115252B
• SHA1 – D61FBBD309C89AA5579001964C32F4AEF44D3206
• SHA256 – FB19B912F87C76516415FAF0D0A37CFDD0DDBF96D0EB86821FD90A01D3C18A82

The following changes have been included:

• C186 K200 – Pressure Calculation: Modified to include logic to not apply head correction at 0% of span
• K321, C321 – Gas Chromatograph calibration check added – ASTM D1945 method
• C153 K113 Gas Totalisation calculated tolerance method added – Uses the DECC method of calculating the pass/fail tolerance

Version 1.8.2.0 – Released 28 April 2021

The following changes have been included:

• The drift uncertainty parameter for pressure, temperature and DP transmitter can now be calculated based on calibration history rather than user entered. The calculation will now take into account the time period between the last AF/AL or AL validation for the relevant tag device and the date that the uncertainty calculation is carried out. The drift value will be calculated using this time period rather than a fixed configured interval.

Version 1.8.1 – Released 23 September 2020

The following changes have been included:

• TLS 1.2 is now supported
• Option added for display of significant figures in Meter Performance Monitoring reports
• Tag name and tag description now displayed

Version 1.8 – Released 28 October 2019

The following changes have been included:

• Help links updated to link to the latest resources
• Meter Performance Monitoring – Control chart validation enhancements
• Icons and naming updated
• Default Test session now created for Active Directory users
• Electronic Logbook enhancement to handle larger data sets

Version 1.7.10 – Released 23 July 2018

The appearance of the software has been modified to reflect the new KELTON MeterManager branding.

Amendments to report formats have been undertaken.

Various small bug fixes and other enhancements have been actioned.

Instrument Management (formerly KIMS.net)

• Calculation to correct injected frequency value to a K-factor based on calibration data for Ultrasonic, Turbine and Coriolis meters
• Visual charting of live differential pressure over OPC to assist with data capture for routine validations
• Export data from scheduler to Excel
• Option to cancel scheduled tests

Meter Performance Monitoring (formerly K-TRAC.net)

• Option to validate against previously downloaded proves
• Add comments to proves post validation

Dynamic Uncertainty (formerly UNCERTAINTYLIVE.net)

• UN-117 – Coriolis Meter (User entered density, Calc CV)
• UN-203 – LNG USM (Calculated density, VCF and ECF)
• UN-201 – Modification to add calibration data into uncertainty calculations as well as other additional parameters
• Additional models added to pressure and temperature transmitters and densitometers to uncertainty modules
• AA tolerance class now taken into account within temperature uncertainty block

Version 1.7.8 – Released 17 July 2017

The application has been further optimised to facilitate faster performance across remote networks and faster data retrieval.

Active Directory has been included.

KIMS.net

The following calculations have been included

• K242 – ISO 5167:2016 Cone Calculations

The following calculation has been updated

• K149 – Liquid Densitometer Calculation
• K143 – to include ISO 6976:2016 Calorific Value and Relative Density

Version 1.7.4 – Released 27 February 2017

The application has been further optimised to facilitate faster performance across remote networks.

KIMS.net

A new report was added to show a summary of tests performed for a selected system or systems over a chosen period.

A lock was included to prevent users from inadvertently changing the site for an item of equipment, which is already assigned.

Additional units were added to the ADC input Check form K122.

The DAC output check form K123 was enhanced to enable a pressure to be converted to a flow rate using a square root function.

K-TRAC.net

A new field was added to enable the user to enter a prove number in addition to the one automatically generated by K-TRAC.

Inconsistencies in the labels for validation results were corrected.

An additional function was included to control which sites could be used off-line.

An error, which was preventing the user from choosing the size of the data set to use in the Grubb’s outlier check, was corrected.

A display issue for the secondary y-axis in control charts was corrected.

Column headings are now included when exporting prove data to Excel.

An error preventing the opening of proves which had been automatically entered was corrected.

The function to predict meter factors was changed to exclude predicted proves from the data set.

The set of proves used in the validation process now include all proves with the exception of those which have been explicitly marked as ‘excluded’ where previously outliers were also excluded.

K-LOG.net

The filtering logic was enhanced to make selecting systems and event types easier.

Version 1.7.2 – Released 20 September 2016

The application has been further optimised to facilitate faster performance across remote networks.

K-VIEW.net and KITS.net were removed from FM²P.net.

UNCERTAINTYLIVE.net has been added to FM²P.net.

The user permissions section has been enhanced and user roles are now assigned to a user group as opposed to an individual user.

The option to create a database was removed from the installer.

KIMS.net

The Beamex functionality has been enhanced to allow the updating of manual entered parameters whilst automatically capturing repeat data.

The ability to add an attachment to a KIMS®.net test was included.

The option for calculating compressibility factors using US Customary units in addition to Metric units was included (MPMS 11.2.1 and 11.2.2 in addition to MPMS 11.2.1M and 11.2.2M).

A modification was made to the configure test form to force the user to enter the tolerance and span where applicable.

If a System, Section, Tag or Test is deactivated it is now also deactivated in the Schedule.

An error which did not give the opportunity to perform a find and replace on the OPC tags when copying one test onto another was rectified.

An on-demand option was included for capturing OPC data when performing a KIMSTM.net test.

A chart is now included in calibration results.

K-LOG.net

An issue was fixed where generating a new test version by copying and pasting did not get recorded in the log book.

An error which prevented comments being added to an event with an attachment was resolved.

K-LOG.net event types can now be edited by a user who has administrator permission.

An error which prevented the logbook from being correctly filtered was corrected.

A standard report is now included in K-LOG.net.

K-TRAC.net

An error was corrected to ensure the data used for regression analyses is limited to the configured data set size. Previously this was using all proves.

K-DOC.net

K-DOC.net has been updated to remove the requirement for Microsoft SharePoint and add new functionality.

FLOCALC.net

Density was added as an output to F057 IAWPS-IF97/2007 – Steam Tables.

F023 API Density Referral 1980-86 was enhanced. The option for calculating compressibility factors using US Customary units in addition to Metric units was included (MPMS 11.2.1 and 11.2.2 in addition to MPMS 11.2.1M and 11.2.2M).

Version 1.6.1 – Released 10 December 2015

The application has been optomised to facilitate faster performance across remote networks.

The history of each item of equipment can now be viewed without having to open the calibration history.

Electronic copies of calibration certificates for test and field equipment can be saved with the equipment record.

Equipment can be removed from an instrument tag without having to replace it with another item of equipment.

KIMS.net

The following calculation has been included:

K238 – Liquid Flow Rate – Coriolis Meter

All tests can now be linked to procedures stored in K-DOC.net so they are available for reference as tests are being performed.

K-DOC.net

K-DOC.net has been updated to remove the requirement for Microsoft SharePoint and add new functionality.

FLOCALC.net

FLOCALC has been updated to be compatable with Excel 2016 as well as the 2010 and 2012 versions.

Version 1.5.1 – Released 09 June 2015

The following calculation has been updated to include options for BS&W and Density.

K122 – ADC Input Check

The licencing mechanism was changed so that only the FM²P server requires a licence file and the FM²P.net clients do not.

An issue in the FM²P Administration where duplicate fields could be created for an equipment was resolved.

FLOCALC.net

The following calculations have been updated to remove the dynamic viscosity input in cases where it was not required to calculate the discharge coefficient.

F075 – ISO 5167:1991 Venturi Flow Calculation

F076 – ISO 5167:2003 Venturi Flow Calculation

F080 – ISO 5167/McCrometer Cone Calculation

Version 1.4.5 – Released 16 March 2015

FLOCALC.net

The following calculation has been included:

F101 – ASTM D1555 – Volume and Weight of Industrial Aromatics and Cyclohexane.

Version 1.4.4 – Released 19 February 2015

FLOCALC.net

The following calculations have been included:

F098 – AGA 3:2012 Orifice Flow Calculation

F099 – ISO5167/McCrometer Wet Gas V-Cone Flow Calculation

F100 – Water content in Natural Gas

The following calculations have been updated:

F003 – ISO6976:1995 Additional reference temperature conditions have been included.

F073 – ASTM-IP Table 54:1952 has been updated to include option for interpolating from tabulated values in addition to using the calculated values

F084 – ASTM-IP Table 6:1952 has been updated to include option for interpolating from tabulated values in addition to using the calculated values

F067 – ASTM D3588/GPA 2145 – Calorific Value and Relative Density was updated to resolve an error which could cause the calculation to fail under certain conditions

KIMS.net

The following calculations have been included:

K232 – AGA 3:2012 Orifice Flow Calculation.

K233 – AGA 3:2012 Orifice Flow Totalisation.

K234 – ISO5167/McCrometer Wet Gas V-Cone Flow Calculation.

K235 – ISO5167/McCrometer Wet Gas V-Cone Flow Totalisation.

The application has been optimised to load faster.

Modifications were made to ensure OPC connections are routed through the FM²PTM.net server.

Additional functionality has been added to the scheduler to include a field for the work order number and the nominal duration. This will enable cross checking against systems such as SAP and help plan your workload.

Reports have been updated and enhanced.

K-LOG.net

The option to allow custom category names has been added.

Functionality has been included to prevent ‘bad’ OPC data triggering spurious log entries.

Version 1.4.3 – Released 10 October 2014

FLOCALC.net

The following calculations have included:

F047 – Hydrocarbon Dew Point Calculation

F071 – ISO5167 Orifice Plate Validation

F094 – API Natural Gas Viscosity Calculation

F095 – ISO 3171:1999 Annex A – Estimating Water in Oil Dispersion

F096 – Product Type 7 – Cpl and Compressibility Calculation

F097 – ISO 8222 Annex A – Density of Water

Version 1.4.1 – Released 02 July 2014

FLOCALC.net

The following calculation has been updated:

F066 – Meter K-Factor Computation

KIMS.net

Further improvements made to the formatting of reports.

Error in the status of scheduled items being incorrectly displayed corrected.

Changes made to the ‘working off-line’ display.

K-LOG.net

The event category is now visible in the log book.

Version 1.4.0 – Released 27 May 2014

FM²P.net

The installer mechanism has been updated to enable all subsequent releases to be installed by updating as opposed to having to uninstall and then reinstall the application.

The help system has been replaced by an improved and updated mechanism.

FLOCALC.net

The installer mechanism has been updated to enable all subsequent releases to be installed by updating as opposed to having to uninstall and then reinstall the application.

The help system has been replaced by an improved and updated mechanism.

The following calculations have been included:

F088 – AGA 7 – Turbine Meter Gas Flow Rate Calculation

F089 – AGA 9 – Ultrasonic Meter Gas Flow Rate Calculation

F090 – GPA TP-27:2007 – Temperature Correction for NGL and LPG

F091 – GPA TP-25 – NGL and LPG Density Referral

F092 – GPA TP-27 – NGL and LPG Density Referral

F093 – AGA 10- Velocity of Sound/Isentropic Exponent

KIMS.net

Improvements have been made to the formatting of reports

Errors in alternative validation modes Average to One and Many to One resolved

K-TRAC.net

A timing issue which could potentially occur when K-Trac was used on -line subscribing to OPC tags was resolved.

Improvements have been made to the Performance Curve display.

Improvements have been madeto the configuration of Control Charts.

K-LOG.net

The ability to add comments to previously recorded log entries has been included.

Version 1.3.5 – Released 19 March 2014

FLOCALC.net

The following calculations have been updated:

F066 – Meter K-Factor Computation (this calculation replaces F011)

F013 – AGA 8:1985 – Gas Density and Compressibility (the calculation has been optimised to improve performance)

F014 – AGA 8:1994 – Gas Density and Compressibility (the calculation has been optimised to improve performance)

F063 – AGA 8: Gross Characterisation Methods (this calculation replaces F024)

F051 – NX-19:1962 – Gas Supercompressibility (the calculation has been optimised to improve performance)

A minor error was corrected in FLOXL where turning off multiple options was not always handled correctly.

KIMS.net

The following calculations have been updated:

K109 – Meter K-Factor Computation(this calculation replaces K178)

K141 – AGA 8 – Gas Density and Compressibility (optimised to improve performance)

K125 – AGA 8: Gross Characterisation Methods (This calculation replaces K142)

A modification has been made to prevent OPC values from being manually overwritten.

K-TRAC.net

The logic which calculates the maximum days between proves has been improved to assist when logging events in K-LOG.net

Version 1.3.4 – Released 31 January 2014

FLOCALC.net

The following calculations have been added:

F058 – GPA TP-15:2007 – Vapour Pressure Correlation for NGLs (this is an extension of the 1998 version of the standard)

F087 – AGA 5:2009 Natural Gas Energy Measurement

F074 – AGA 3:1992 Orifice Flow Calculation (this calculation replaces F019)

F073 – ASTM-IP Table 54: 1952 (released to calculate Ctl without Cpl)

An error was detected and corrected in: F033 – ISO 5167:1991 Wet Gas Venturi (Chisholm/De Leeuw) which was related to the Lockhart Martinelli parameter.

KIMS.net

The following calculations have been added:

K198 – GPA TP-15:2007 – Vapour Pressure Correlation for NGLs

K129 – AGA 5:2009 Natural Gas Energy Measurement

K157 – Temperature spot check

K126 – AGA 3:1992 Orifice Flow Calculation (replacement for K107)

K127 – AGA 3:1992 Orifice Flow Totalisation (replacement for K108)

K227 – ASTM-IP Table 54: 1952 (Released to calculate Ctl without Cpl)

The following liquid and gas flow rate and totalisation forms have been updated to use the later density referral standards contained within the application:

K132 – Liquid Flow Rate – Pulse Output Meter (This, along with K133 replaces K103)

K133 – Gas Flow Rate – Pulse Output Meter (This, along with K132 replaces K103)

K134 – Liquid Totalisation – Pulse Output Meter (This, along with K135 replaces K104)

K135 – Gas Totalisation – Pulse Output Meter (This, along with K134 replaces K104)

Functionality to change the test date and time was added to allow for test results being entered following a test being carried out. To preserve the integrity of the system the date the results are entered is also recorded.

K-TRAC.net

Modifications to the online functionality have been included for better integration with Honeywell systems.

 

Version 1.3.3 – Released 19 December 2013

FLOCALC.net

The following calculations have been added:

F081 – Gas Density Computation – Micro Motion

F082 – Liquid Density Computation – Micro Motion (updated to include new densitometer constants)

F083 – ASTM-IP Table 5: 1952

F084 – ASTM-IP Table 6: 1952

F085 – ASTM-IP Table 23: 1952

F086 – ASTM-IP Table 24: 1952

KIMS.net

The following calculations have been added:

K149 – Density Computation – Micro Motion (Updated to include new densitometer constants)

K223 – ASTM-IP Table 5: 1952

K224 – ASTM-IP Table 6: 1952

K225 – ASTM-IP Table 23: 1952

K226 – ASTM-IP Table 24: 1952

K-TRAC.net

Modifications to the online functionality have been included to assist with setting up OPC connections.

Version 1.3.2 Released 03 December 2013

FLOCALC.net

The following ISO 5167 based calculations have been added to consolidate options and extend the choice of density referral calculations:

F068 – ISO 5167:1991 Orifice Flow Calculation (this replaces F004)

F069 – ISO 5167:1998 Amd 1 Orifice Flow Calculation (this replaces F027)

F070 – ISO 5167:2003 Orifice Flow Calculation (this replaces F044)

F075 – ISO 5167:1991 Venturi Flow Calculation (this replaces F005)

F076 – ISO 5167/McCrometer Cone Calculation (this replaces F030)

KIMS.net

The following calculations have been added:

K155 – Densitometer Air Check

K156 – Densitometer Vacuum Check

K215 – ISO 5167 – Orifice Flow Calculation

K216 – ISO 5167 – Venturi Flow Calculation

K217 – ISO 5167/McCrometer – Cone Calculation

K218 – ISO 5167 – Orifice Flow Calculation

K219 – ISO 5167 – Venturi Flow Calculation

K220 – ISO 5167/McCrometer – Cone Calculation

The format of the calibration certificates generated my KIMS has been improved.

K-TRAC.net

An adjustment was made to the prove validation report to accommodate larger totals.