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Pressure Measurement Accuracy and Error Calculator

Calculate Pressure Measurement Accuracy or Error
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Featured pressure sensor products

  • DMP331P Hygienic Flush Pressure Transmitter - Sanitary pressure sensor wth exposed diaphragm with no crevices for high temperatures up to 300 Degrees Celsius in ranges from 100mb up to 40 bar gauge or absolute
  • UPS-HSR USB Pressure Sensor with High Sample Rate Logging - USB ready digital pressure sensor for recording pressures with a high speed sample rate of up to 1 kHz to a computer.

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  • User Guide
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    • Pressure
    • Accuracy
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User Guide

This tool will calculate the pressure error, accuracy factor or pressure range value for a pressure measurement device.

Use different pressure units to define the pressure measurement error to avoid long decimals with too many leading zeros.

Define accuracy as a percentage value or a parts per million factor, plus a few other rarely used methods to express measurement accuracy.

Determine the largest pressure range that can be used to achieve a specified pressure measuring accuracy.

Formulas

The formulas used by this pressure measurement, accuracy and error calculator to determine each individual parameter are:

PE = P · Acc

Acc = PE / P

P = PE / Acc

Symbols

  • PE = Error value in pressure units
  • Acc = Accuracy as a proportion of a pressure value
  • P = Pressure value

Pressure

This is the pressure value used to derive the percentage accuracy or the pressure error. The pressure range of a pressure measurement device is often used when calculating the pressure error since the accuracy is typically defined as a percentage of full scale (%FS).

For pressure calibration equipment the accuracy is sometimes defined as a percentage of reading, and in this case it would be a specific pressure reading that would be used to calculate the pressure error value at a particular pressure reading.

Determining the pressure range required for a given pressure error deviation and percentage accuracy is useful for determining the maximum pressure range that would be possible, without exceeding a required maximum pressure deviation for a device with a defined accuracy.

Accuracy

This is the proportion of the pressure range or reading that defines the margin of error in  measuring the true pressure value.

Error

This is the amount of pressure that a reading may deviate from the true pressure value.

Featured pressure gauge products

  • 16 bar, 200°C steam pressure transmitter and gauge - Combined pressure transmitter and indicator in one package with the option for use with high temperature media such as steam at 200°C
  • Hydraulic puller-tensioner bar pressure to kilonewton load HMI display & logger - We are looking for an indicator with HMI software to show a machine operator the amount of force generated by a hydraulic puller-tensioner used for power line stringing.

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