Gas

A leading brick manufacturer selects Elster Kromschröder burners and various components to pulse fire a new tunnel kiln at their Texas plant. The long-time customer of Elster Kromschröder for both burners and control products, is prefers pulse firing their kilns to provide energy savings and temperature uniformity in their products.

Ecomax systems are preferred by the one of the largest manufacturers of freight car wheels for heat treating the wheels. Elster Kromschröder supplies the complete systems including control panels, pre-piping of the burner components as well as commissioning.     

Elster designed its innovative BK-G4E and AS330 meters specifically to support tailored solutions for utilities working to comply with the European directive for smart gas and electricity metering. The meters comply with the latest industry standards for data privacy and security and provide customers with latest technology to protect against fraud and tampering.

"Elster has worked closely with us to support the success of our Smart Metering rollout and their secure, reliable and interoperable dual fuel, 'dual protocol WAN' solution provides us with further capacity in our supply chain." Dean Keeling, managing director of British Gas smart homes

Elster has worked with Gaz réseau Distribution France (GrDF) for more than 60 years. GrDF is the main gas utility in France and wholly-owned subsidiary of GdF Suez that manages the longest natural gas distribution network in Europe. The utility selected Elster to participate in France’s first gas Smart Metering pilot, and most recently, the utility selected Elster as the sole supplier to establish at least five biogas injection stations throughout the country. The first station will be delivered in the first quarter of 2012.

China, Sinopec, Mobile Calibration Facility. In May 2011 a new generation of mobile calibration test rig was completed - the final test completed successfully in Pigsar. Elster Instromet's innovative meters and systems were instrumental in the success of the operation. The mobile calibration facility is built on a truck and designed to check gas metering stations in China. This unit is equipped with a calibration data acquisition system, three turbine master meter lines, one meter under test and an ultrasonic reference meter.

United Arab Emirates, Dubai, Dolphin Energy Limited awarded Elster Instromet as supplier for the gas metering stations of the Eastern Gas Distribution System (EGDS) and Taweelah - Fujairah Gas Pipeline. Multi-meter-run metering stations are equipped with Q.Sonic ultrasonic flow meters, Flow computers, Gas Chromatographs and Supervisory & Control systems.

Trans Canada Calibration in Winnipeg, Canada is a world class meter calibration facility, relied on Elster Instromet to design a system combining our turbine meters and ultrasonic meters for reference measurement since 2000. Additionally, the supervisory and control system was designed and realized by Elster Instromet.

Elster Kromschroeder is consistently recognized to lead the thermprocess industry with the highest quality furnaces and burner components. Working with a large German thermprocess customer, Elster Kromschroeder manufactured industrial furnaces for a continuous heat treatment line for silicon steel strip in China, with hundreds of Ecomax burners, burner control units and regulating equipment.

Two SCANA Corporation companies, South Carolina Electric and Gas and Public Service of North Carolina have selected Elster American Meter to supply all classes of diaphragm meters to their service areas.  Elster has a long-term relationship with SCANA, delivering high quality metering products, pressure control devices and piping products for residential, commercial and gas transmission applications.

Leading gas utilities on the West Coast of North America trust Elster to be the sole source provider for high powered Ultrasonic meters to provide natural gas transfer measurement.

In 2011, Elster America Meter’s residential and commercial gas diaphragm model meters were selected by Baltimore Gas & Electric for the utility's advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) deployment.

Elster's AMR system selected by large Russian gas utility, allowing them to remotely collect residential gas meter consumption information. 

Gas Natural Fenosa selects Elster for Gas AMI project

Utilities in the Netherlands select Elster to deploy Home Area Network and gas meters according to the Dutch specifications.

Scottish and Southern Energy Supply Limited (SSE) chooses Elsters AS300 Smart Meter with customized dual fuel Smart Grid deployment for gas and electricity intelligent management. "Elster is providing us with flexible, smart, gas and electricity meters as we begin the roll-out of an integrated solution that starts to deliver the benefits of Smart Metering to our customers," said Andrew Monks, smart metering programme manager for SSE.

Elster supplies fiscal gas metering system for Serai Project, offshore, Miri

In April, 2011, Geraldo Guimaraes Jr. joined Elster Integrated Solutions (EIS) Latin America from Silver Spring Networks, to direct our integrated efforts to deliver Smart Metering and Smart Grid solutions which meet the specific needs of Latin American utilities across gas, electricity and water.

One of the most significant gas projects in Asia, the West-East Gas Pipeline Project (WEPP) has been constructed especially for importing natural gas from Central Asia to China. Elster Instromet was awarded the contract to deliver all turbine and ultrasonic gas metering skids for the PetroChina project, due to our system's performance across all terrain and dependability to withstand all climate conditions in China. The 8704 km long second major gas transmission pipeline transports 30Bln cubic meter of gas benefiting a population of 400 million.

Spectra Energy selected Elster Instromet to supply Q.Sonic ultrasonic meters to provide natural gas custody transfer measurement for one of the company's large-scale pipeline expansion projects. The Elster meters will accurately measure the volume of natural gas as it is transported to markets in the Northeastern United States.