Flow Sensing Reference Materials

Description: With the rapid development of Internet of things technology, the demand for high-performance ultrasonic sensor of ultrasonic intelligent water meter applied in intelligent buildings is becoming more ...

Description: Dunedin City Council (DCC) has implemented a new, smart water metering system as part of its move to becoming a city that delivers the objectives of the controversial Three Waters policy. ...

Description: In the recent decades, the market for the products of the industrial process industries has changed greatly. The manufacture of mass products has shifted to locations where raw materials are available ...

Description: Flow measurement is one of the most important aspects of process control and is found in a wide variety of industry sectors, including upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas; chemicals; power ...

Description: Achieving heating process efficiency improvements cannot occur without more accurate, reliable flow meters to control the burn. ...

Description: A newly released 27-page American Automobile Association (AAA) study on the effectiveness of driver monitoring systems in vehicles equipped with advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) found that ...

Description: LJ Star Sight Flow Indicators for industrial applications are the most common flow indicators style that enables visual observation of process flow through a pair of sight glasses mounted on a carbon ...

Description: Micro Sensor realizes real-time collection and monitoring of production and operation data by supporting corresponding data acquisition/transmission equipment and cloud equipment in water sources, ...

Description: Mass air flow sensors are detection devices that are used to measure mass flow rate, and they play a critical role in the function of various medical equipment. Respirators, ventilators, anesthesia ...

Description: A turbine flow meter is characterized by a calibration factor, commonly referred to as the k-factor. An ideal turbine flowmeter would have a k-factor perfectly constant (stable) across the entire ...

Description: From aeration lines to digester gases, from disinfection processes to pump flow protection, the right flow measurement instrumentation ensures optimal process operations and minimized maintenance that ...

Description: From aeration lines to digester gases, from disinfection processes to pump flow protection, the right flow measurement instrumentation ensures optimal process operations and minimized maintenance that ...

Description: For engineers and facility managers looking at their production operations to improve process efficiency, reduce costs, and find ways to meet sustainability and environmental governance regulations, ...

Description: The effective use of a Cryogenic Flowmetering System to obtain accurate flow measurements requires a number of basic considerations be satisfied. ...

Description: In the hydrocarbon industry, production processes are complex, and safety is paramount. Plant owners operate with a sharp focus on the bottom line, so finding a way to reduce costs and increase yields ...

Description: In all electric power generation plants (gas, solar, coal or nuclear), the fuel source of choice heats a large boiler, which creates steam that drives turbine blades to rotate. ...

Description: The flow sensing grid in the FlowHood unit is high impact ABS plastic. It can be damaged if subjected to physical abuse or excessive stress. ...

Description: How are AirData Multimeters used and How do the Flowhood Models Differ? ...

Description: Learn to optimize performance through proper installation and maintenance. ...

Description: Pharmaceutical production is a highly regulated business that relies on precision manufacturing techniques using state-of-the-art equipment developed over many years. Data recording and repeatability ...

Description: Restoring and replacing aging water and wastewater infrastructure continues to be job one for most American public utilities. Federal funding is available, but is it enough? ...

Description: In this article, we are going to examine the most common ways of calculating and converting air velocity to flow rate. ...

Description: With food manufacturers being continually squeezed on price by retailers and asked to fulfill orders for supply that can seem, at best, challenging, improving productivity is a priority. Tight ...

Description: To specify a thermal mass flow meter correctly, there are 10 key questions you will want to understand, consider and then be able to answer. Being ready with the answers to these 10 questions will ...

Description: The Spacesuit Water Membrane Evaporator (SWME) - Spacesuit Evaporation Rejection Flight Experiment (SERFE) (Figure 2) was installed in November, 2020, on the ISS by Astronaut Kate Rubins. NASA will ...

Description: The various types of oxidizer system designs all rely on accurate and repeatable mass flow measurements. Knowing the amount of VOCs entering the system, combustion air and natural gas feeds to the ...

Description: The Florida water plant that was the subject of a cyber-attack last week may have dodged a bullet, but it highlights the vulnerability of the nation's water supplies and the need for better security ...

Description: When it comes to flow meters, what matters to plant managers and engineers alike is if their meter is measuring flow accurately and reliably. They want to know they can depend on the data their meter ...

Description: Flow sensors can be found across various industrial, medical and aerospace applications. Flow is defined as the mass or volume of a fluid that passes per unit of time. In practice, flow sensors (or ...

Description: LJ Star (www.ljstar.com) announces that its patent-pending Clamp Type Sterile Visual Flow Indicator, or CT-SVFI, was awarded one of Processing Magazine's 2020 Breakthrough Products Awards. ...

Description: When determining the ideal fit for your application, you'll want to pay close attention to a flow meter's specifications. Accuracy and repeatability are two key factors that should be considered when ...

Description: In our last blog, we discussed how plant and operation managers are searching for ways to manage the flow energy in their facility to cut costs and increase their process efficiency. After the ...

Description: a user's perspective on the potential of integrated control and flow measurement. ...

Description: Short radius elbows slow refrigerant flow and can cause system damaging pressure drops. ...

Description: Methane gas extraction application bulletin ...

Description: To provide a visual monitoring of possible fuel leakage within a dual containment piping system ...

Description: To provide visual confirmation of color (yellowish) to assure proper mixture has taken place ...

Description: Switch to turn off large pumps when cooling water flow stops. ...

Description: To prevent siphoning of water when pump is de-energized. ...

Description: This fluoropolymer material has superior chemical and abrasion resistance, mechanical strength and temperature capabilities in comparison to all other thermoplastic materials. It offers substantially ...

Description: To divert corrosive used rinse water to either the waste treatment facility or ion exchange equipment. ...

Description: To provide small dosages of chemical(s) on an as-called-for basis to neutralize wastewater ...

Description: When it comes to efficient bioreactor performance, precision mass flow control gas is critical. It is essential that bioreactor manufacturers have reliable, repeatable, and flexible gas supply systems ...

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Description: Preserving the quality of stored grains such as barley, hops, wheat, corn and other crops has challenged farmers and food processors for millennia. Today's modern large grain storage facilities ...

Description: Wet gas is a challenge to measure in a number of industries, including those with combustible gases that represent a safety hazard. In the laboratory, today's air/gas flow sensors and measurement ...

Description: The accurate measurement and disposal of flare gases aboard floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels is essential to manage these potentially hazardous combustible, flammable and ...

Description: In most industrial facilities Compressed Dry Air (CDA) is a primary component of overall energy use. In fact, compressed air is considered to be the "fourth utility" after electricity, natural gas and ...

Description: Products Products We offer the widest product range of low-flow (mass) flow meters and controllers on the market. Numerous styles of both standard and bespoke instruments can be offered for ...

Description: Most patients admitted to the hospital are treated with medication (pharmaceuticals). Especially in critical care, a substantial amount of patients require intravenous therapy. Intravenous therapy ...

Description: A mass flow meter, or inertial flow meter, measures the mass flow rate of gases or liquids traveling through a tube. The gas passes by a fixed point within the meter and it measures the mass per unit ...

Description: Anesthesia is a term that we are all familiar with. It is a general term that is applied to painkillers and being put under for surgery. It is quite a medical breakthrough that helps not only patients ...

Description: Designed to be mounted in-line for high purity hygienic applications, these clamp type "CT" sterile-design visual flow indicators provide operators with a clear view of flow for virtually any process ...

Description: This review by an oil & gas LACT specialist looks at how integrating flow measurement and PLC control can improve oil & gas custody transfer ...

Description: Flow meter calibration should never be taken for granted, and thermal mass flow meters are no exception. Flow meters can be built with the highest safety ratings, features and functions, and the most ...

Description: A major oil refinery's plant team ran into challenging issues when they attempted to optimize their large primary boiler system, which initially perplexed the plant's process engineers. After ...

Description: Accurate, repeatable air/gas flow measurement under harsh outdoor conditions is essential to successful wastewater treatment operations when used in aeration or digester biogas applications. The ...

Description: Small discrepancies in custody transfer calculation can make a big difference on the bottom line of an oil & gas producer ...

Description: Beneficial for Liquid & Gas Pipelines Cedar Grove, New Jersey & Odessa, Texas - To satisfy a need for visual monitoring of leakage in dual containment systems, a petroleum plant has installed a series ...

Description: Accurate, repeatable chemical measurement with the SITRANS FC430. ...

Description: A suburban township in the upper Midwest United States buys their drinking water from a major municipal water district. The township's water distribution system network has four connections to the ...

Description: Nearly every major city around the globe has a district energy system that provides thermal energy to its buildings. In these underground infrastructures, thermal energy is provided to multiple ...

Description: Every municipality throughout the country has a wastewater treatment plant to safely treat water that enters back into our environment. This doesn't mean they are immune to problems. One of the ...

Description: Not all flow meters are the same. It's like choosing a car. All cars are designed to move you from point A to B. However, if you live high up in the mountains you might want a truck or a tougher built ...

Description: An explanation of soldering methods using automated equipment intended to assist end users with soldering Merit Sensor parts using either Pb-free solder or Pb-free containing solder. ...

Description: When oil and gas are extracted, large amounts of brine water are typically brought to the surface. More than 140,000 wells in operation in the United States produce over 2 billion gallons of water ...

Description: Pneumatic fluid power is a universal and cost-effective method for delivering energy to instrumentation and industrial processes. In cooling applications, fluid flows past something to carry away ...

Description: Accurately measuring the flow of gas mixtures is often complicated by changes in composition over time. Over the last five years, multi-path ultrasonic meters have been an ideal technology for ...

Description: A wastewater treatment plant in a major US city turned to Xylem Dewatering Solutions during a recent expansion and renovation project, which required a temporary bypass system to divert a peak ...

Description: A refinery in Saudi Arabia needed to optimize its SRU system to increase its efficiency and reduce costs. The plant team at the refinery quickly identified the need for more accurate and reliable ...

Description: Know your options when selecting the appropriate flowmeter technology to measure natural gas, water and steam in power generation. ...

Description: The Smartflow Reynolds Number Calculator is provided as a service to the injection molding community as an easy-to-use online resource. In the development of our calculator special attention was ...

Description: Wastewater treatment facilities use multiple processes and a variety of equipment to produce water clean enough for reuse. Each process within the treatment train may serve a different function yet ...

Description: With 40 separate facilities, a large milk and juice packaging company in Japan has a dual need for liquid flowmeters: (1) to ascertain when the process of cleaning the pipes and tanks has been ...

Description: National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)® Code 30 defines safeguards to reduce the hazards associated with the storage, handling, and use of flammable and combustible liquids. In the USA, NFPA ...

Description: Flow meters and controllers are used every day in general purpose industrial and laboratory applications and in the semiconductor industry. Have you ever wondered how capillary tube flow meters work? ...

Description: For many experiments it's critical to achieve precision control in gas mixing and blending applications. In fact, the quality of research and results depends on trusting all the variables in an ...

Description: Whether you are running a large municipal water facility or one of the over 37,000 rural water utilities in the United States, water usage and costs drive your decisions. Learn how to avoid costly ...

Description: In the beverage production process, precise mass flow control of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is a crucial part of creating high quality brews and beverages. It is pivotal that beverage manufacturers have the ...

Description: Industrial mass flow control is a crucial part of burner and combustion control in manufacturing applications. Precise mass flow control of the fuel-to-air ratio to the burner keeps melt temperatures ...

Description: You have specified the correct industrial Thermal insertion mass flow meter and received your brand new meter. Now what? Where do you install the meter for optimal performance? This is where ...

Description: From facilities management to district heating applications, accurate steam flow energy measurement is a critical flow measurement needed to incur substantial savings on energy and maintenance costs. ...

Description: The importance of materials chemical compatibility: Fluid vs. sensor's wetted materials. ...

Description: A common application for micro-breweries is adding water from the supply tank to the mash mixing tanks. ...

Description: Consider Proteus Industries for innovative solid-state sensing technology based on vortex technology. As the world moves to requiring more information, moving from traditional switches to meters has ...

Description: Improving energy efficiency in facilities, campuses and hospitals is top of mind for most facilities managers and engineers. Government regulations like Boiler MACT and other energy efficiency ...

Description: So why is it so popular? In a word, economy. This otherwise wasted biogas can be used for heating, electricity, or to fuel internal combustion enginesâ€"the possibilities are endless! This, of course, ...

Description: The measurement of air and gases in chemical plants is essential in many functional applications, including safety, process control, product quality, production efficiency, environmental compliance ...

Description: Air pollution emissions monitoring and control begins with accurate and reliable gas flow metering. There's an old industry truism that says "You can't control what you can't measure," and that ...

Description: As we've discovered in Part 1 and Part 2 of this Flow Energy Management series, determining the best flow meter technology for flow energy management of gas, liquid and steam applications depends on ...

Description: Vortex flow meters are increasingly becoming the flow technology of choice for gas, liquid, and steam flow measurement. Vortex flow meters are ideal for measuring saturated and supersaturated steam in ...

Description: Video: https://youtu.be/3naKb4-o6sk Which mass flow controller will work best for my application? Many times, we have had university professors and students contact us in tech support about which ...

Description: Gas volume and energy metering stations using gas chromatography and ultrasonic metering are becoming a mainstream field operation and a new challenge to metering personnel. They are easy to adapt to ...

Description: One of the most common issues that we have dealt with over the years is the use of tube fittings in calibrated flow meters. ...

Description: More and more, buzz words like “flow energy� or “flow energy management� have become prevalent as companies grapple to control costs, reduce energy use, and comply with government ...

Description: An ultrasonic flow meter utilizes ultrasound to measure the velocity of a fluid and is used in a variety of fluid applications. Ultrasonic flowmeters are ideal for water and other liquids. Clamp-on ...

Description: A flow meter works by measuring the amount of a gas, liquid or steam that passes through or around the flow meter sensors. While flow meter sensors work in many different ways, the end goal is the ...

Description: A water flow meter is a device that measures the amount of water flowing through a pipe. There are several water flow meter technologies to choose from depending on the water measurement ...

Description: Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on November 28, 2011. Due to its popularity and continued questions on this issue, we updated the post on March 9, 2018. Choosing the right ...