Young Calibration
Calibration
laboratory located Shoreham by Sea, West Sussex
bringing customers throughout the UK a cost effective
and quality instrument calibration
services, either laboratory based, mobile
or onsite. Housing seven separate test and calibration
laboratories the company is continuing its expansion
plans into new industrial sectors. Specialising
in air
flow meter calibration with traceable and
UKAS
ISO 17025 accredited facilities for air flow,
water flow and oil flow meters. Our wide ranging
water
flow meter calibration facilities can accommodate
all types of flowmeters on air, gases, water,
oil, petrol, diesel, kerosene, hydrocarbons, aviation
fuel, Jet A1, Shellsol, ISO 4113 fuel pump fluid,
Skydrol, nitrogen, propane, carbon dioxide, helium
and argon. Our experienced engineers have product
knowledge of turbine flowmeters, magnetic, vortex,
positive displacement, ultrasonic, thermal mass,
nutating disc, clamp on, coriolis, orifice, wedge,
venture, sonic nozzles, rotary gas meters, diaphragm,
sliding vane and laminar flow meters. The extensive
flowmetering facility offers one of the widest
ranges of services within the UK, and is one of
only a few laboratories that offer UKAS accredited
calibrations for water, oil and air flow meters.
The company covers an array of industries, although
primarily specialising in the automotive, aerospace
and medical sectors, calibration parameters are
also applied across environmental, process, utilities,
rail, marine, pharmaceutical, biomedical and oil
and gas sectors. The automotive department covers
everything for the engine test environment, including
load, speed, emissions, smoke opacity and electrical,
on test beds, test cells, test rigs, rolling roads
and vehicle emissions laboratories. Our engineers
have experience with equipment from AVL, Horiba,
Test Automation, CP, Froude, Ono Sokki, Superflow,
Pierburg, Kistler and Datron covering end of line
pass off tests to full performance and emissions
R&D test beds. The aerospace division is responsible
for the immense variety of fuels and flow calibrations,
being used throughout the combustion, cooling
and transmission systems. The medical laboratory
covers the specialised calibration equipment used
across many EBME departments, hospitals, surgeries
and medic centres for blood infusion devices,
ventilator testers, multi parameter testers, gas
testers, oxygen meters, flow analysers, leak testers
and pressure calibrators. They cover a host of
models from Fluke, Biotek, Metron, Rigel, Draeger,
Fogg, Pace, Timeter, IMT Medical. Our mobile engineers
can also undertake sea voyage projects aboard
cruise liners, ships and vessels for onboard medical
equipment calibration.
To compliment these services, the laboratory
also covers temperature, pressure, humidity, mass,
electrical, vibration, velocity, frequency, torque,
sound intensity, dimensional and force to its
calibrating services. The range of equipment services
allows instrument calibration of RTD probes, thermocouples,
sensors, transmitters, transducers, accelerometers,
microphones, anemometers, pat testers, insulation,
RCD, loop, meggers, wrenches, scopes, multimeters,
chart recorders, counters and timers.
The smaller of the two wind tunnels houses a
versatile variable speed wind tunnel for the calibration
of wind speed devices such as pitot tubes, vane
anemometers, thermal anemometers and ultrasonic
anemometers. Air velocity speeds are capable from
0.1 m/s to 40 metres per second.
The larger of the wind tunnels is dedicated to
calorimetric
radiator testing of automotive radiators,
intercoolers, chargecoolers,
oil coolers, cab heaters, transmissions coolers,
motorsport ductwork, side pods, fan testing and
any derivative of a fluid flow heat exchanger.
Having various modular systems for coolant flow,
oil flow, charge flow and blast air cooling, a
full thermal evaluation assessment can be conducted
of many types of heat exchangers. Results will
typically include heat rejection, heat dissipation,
thermal effectiveness, efficiency, airside pressure
drop, fluid pressure drop, face velocity and fluid
mass flows. Primarily used for automotive, motorsport
and marine sectors the facility can quickly turnaround
thermal heat exchangers tests within 1 day for
F1, Nascar, IRL, Indy Car, Champ Car, vehicle,
motorcycle and truck manufacturers. Thermal
imaging of the component on test can be undertaken
with a Land Infrared thermal imaging camera setup.
UKAS accreditation is granted within the test
laboratory for the thermal testing of vehicle
radiators. Additionally, heat exchangers from
CHP, compressors, and chiller plants can be thermally
tested upto 3 bar boost, 100°C coolant temperature
and 110°C oil temperature.
New developments within the laboratory continue
with the research and development of microfluid
flow systems, covering flow measurements and its’
associated calibration
issues.
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