ECCO on a standard calibration sleeve

Measurement principle for wall thickness

The sensor emits an ultrasonic pulse
This pulse passes through the coupling medium and, then, strikes the

pipe wall.

Pipe wall
(e. g. PE)

Coupling medium
(e. g. water)

Ultrasonic
sensor

Measurement principle for wall thickness

One part of the pulse is reflected by the surface
The other one enters the material, passes through it and is reflected

by the back wall of the sample

Pipe wall
(e. g. PE)

Coupling medium
(e. g. water)

Ultrasonic
sensor

Measurement principle for wall thickness

The entrance and the back wall echoes are received one after the

other
The time difference is multiplied by sonic velocity so that this way a

wall thickness is calculated

Pipe wall
(e. g. PE)

Coupling medium
(e. g. water)

Back wall
echo

Entrance
echo

Ultrasonic
sensor

Calibration and evaluation of the ultrasonic signal

The necessary calibration of the ultrasonic

measurement is effected by:

Simple manual calibration

(correction factor)

mm

kg/h

Ecco - manual wall thickness calibration

1.Make a mark on the pipe

MK / SC

to find the position again.

2.When the mark moves

through the measuring
system you have to freeze

the actual wall thickness

+Job calibration

man. values

act. values

freeze

IUS

values of the ius.

3.Measure the pipe

manually at the marked
position and enter these

3.50 manual measuring value

3.52 ius measuring value

values. Now start the

US-speed mean
3.51
3.50

3.50
3.53
3.51
3.50

freeze

calibration

calibration function.

Corr.Wt [%]
Corr. Seg.1
Corr. Seg.2
...
Corr. Seg.8

After the calibration the

system measures with the

new US-speed.

ECCO segment wall thickness calibration

automatic
calibration
with WPM
with
gravimetric
US-speed mean
8

without
gravimetric

1
2

7
segments
6

manual
calibration

3
5

The pipe is divided into 8 segments.

The manual calibration calculates a correction factor of the ultrasonic

speed for each segment.

The manual calibration calculates the mean ultrasonic speed and the
segment corrections.

Corr.Wt [%]
without grav.
corr. Wt =0 Correction US-speed
Corr. Seg.1
Corr. Seg.2
Corr. Seg.3
Corr. Seg.4
Corr. Seg.5
Corr. Seg.6
Corr. Seg.7
Corr. Seg.8

ECCO - operation

Segmented calibration

ECCO - operation

Start up window

ECCO - operation

Produktion Window

Numbers will be written

in red letters, when
AutoSet tolerance is
exceeded.

Set value

ECCO - operation

Segmented calibration

Training: DIUS Diagnose level

Diagnose mask

Gain in %

Pre Gain1

Pre Gain2

Code

Term

Explanation

Trk.

Track

Numbering of the
measurements clock wise

Chan

Channel

Hardware channel of the

ultrasonic sensor

RTV

Run Time
Value

Runtime value of the wall

thickness measurement

WDL

Water Delay

Runtime value between

sensor and pipe for diameter
measurement.

DME

Dynamic
Quantity of disturbances
measurement
disturbance
suppression

Amp

Amplification

Ref

Reference
Sensor

Gain of the ultrasonic signals

Reference sensor for
detecting the water
temperature for diameter
measurement

Training: DIUS Diagnose level

Diagnose mask

Gain in %

Gain in total
Optimum range
Acceptable range
Questionned range
Generally out of the range

PreGain1

Gain in %
0 - 100
0 - 60
60 - 80
80 - 100
90 - 100

PreGain2

PreGain1
1
0
0
0
1

PreGain2
1
0
0
0
1

ECCO - operation
Oszilloscope

To shift the
displayed area
To choose the
sensor. It is
numbered clock
wise against
extrusion
direction.
Track 0 is on top.
To choose the
layer

Start the signal display

save a screen shot

Display the whole measurement area

ECCO - operation
Oszilloscope
Abbrev.

Value

GS

Gate Start

Gate

Blt

Blocking
Time

Wdl
Rtv
amp

Usage
Delay time to start the gate in microseconds [us]
Length of the gate [us] (gate = measurement area)
Blocked out time after the outer wall signal is found [us]

Water Delay Time between transducer and pipe for diameter

measurement
Run Time
Value

Time of the wall thickness measurement

Amplification Amplification of the transducer signal

Principle of the ultrasonic measurement gate setting

sensor distance
outside diameter for calibration

water flow

Layer total recipe

ABE-function:
If the ABE-formulation is
activated in the ius-basic
settings, the US-parameter
gate, gate start and
blocking time are
calculated automatically by
the ABE-function.

sensor distance
water delay

outer diameter for calibration

Wt recipe

Ie

Re

blt
rtv
gate start

gate

EE

Recipe:
Od cal
Lt-min
v-sonic default

RE

Gain

IUS-Parameter:
sensor distance

BLT = blocking time

RTV = run time value

ABE
(automatic gate setting)

BLT
RTV
Gate start

gate

Gate

Gatestart

Blocking
time

ECCO - operation

Settings

AutoSet Tolerance When the wall thickness exceeds the set value + AutoSetTolerance, the
numbers for the wall thickness will turn into red letters.