Level Sensing Reference Materials

Description: Most households and businesses have meters reading and recording the volume of water used, the volume of gas used and/or the amount of electricity being used. Most of these meters used reed sensors to ...

Description: A top automobile manufacturer faced an issue of not meeting emissions standards due to needing to separate a pipe and hose assembly during maintenance. The hose and pipe needed to be attached to meet ...

Description: A Standex-Meder customer had a challenge. They were spending much time, energy, and money on modifying a part they were purchasing. They sought a solution to alleviate all these symptoms in an ...

Description: The desire for more information and convenience, along with worldwide water and energy conservation initiatives, has led to a flurry of new fluid level magnetic and conductive sensor designs. ...

Description: The hydrostatic level transmitter is a small but vital component for water well monitoring and control. ...

Description: Accurately measuring the flow and level of the various liquids and gases that travel through a process industry plant is a critical function for effective and efficient plant operations. ...

Description: A major oil producer in Alaska's North Slope region operates miles of transit pipeline as part of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) within the U.S. National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska. The TAPS ...

Description: Water level monitoring is an important parameter in many municipal, environmental and process applications. In each case, the measurement technique and the hardware required must be carefully chosen ...

Description: Cannon provided a large construction site with a temporary yet sustainable water supply control system. ...

Description: The demands of sophisticated automated processing systems, the need for ever-tighter process control, and an increasingly stringent regulatory environment drive process engineers to seek more precise ...

Description: Physically, a capacitor is two electrical conductors separated by a non-conducting (or very high resistance) medium between the conductors. Consider the two plates of area (A) in Figure 1. The plates ...

Description: This hydroelectric dam utilizes Oil-Rite lubricators. ...

Description: An optical level switch works by emitting a beam of infrared light within a prism and measuring the amount of light received. When the measured fluid reaches the sensor the amount of emitted light ...

Description: A typical unit can accumulate up to 15 gallons (60 liters) of water in a single day. With this much water being produced, care must be taken with the reservoirs to prevent water overflow. Reed sensors ...

Description: High temperature liquid environments have been around for a long time without any accurate, easy method of measuring their liquid levels. MEDER has solved this problem with their hermetically sealed ...

Description: An essential part of a hot tub is its heating system. There are very high wattage heaters that are designed into hot tubs for quick warm up. If for some reason the water is not flowing and the heaters ...

Description: When applying one's foot to the brake pedal, it is taken for granted that the braking mechanism will begin to slow or stop the vehicle. A hermetically sealed reed switch plays a key reliability role ...

Description: Designing a sensing system for under the hood of a vehicle presents difficult requirements. The sensor must operate at extreme temperatures that are as low as -40°C and as high as 125°C. ...

Description: Refrigerated trucks abound all over our roadways worldwide, many carrying 10s of thousands of dollars, Euros, etc. in fragile goods that must be kept cool, no matter what the outside temperature. ...

Description: All trucks and automobiles currently utilizing internal combustion engines have fuel tanks. To the driver of the fueled motor vehicle, one of the most important instruments on his front panel is his ...

Description: There are several laboratory fluid systems that required fluid level monitoring to help control very elaborate equipment processes. This new float sensor has four sensing positions, three of which are ...

Description: Most households and businesses have meters reading and recording the volume of water used, the volume of gas used and/or the amount of electricity being used. Most of these meters used reed sensors to ...

Description: A west coast biotechnology manufacturer was developing a proprietary process involving blood plasma. The process produced a highly confidential and expensive liquid valued at approximately $100,000 ...

Description: A regional gas utility had to dramatically cut costs through the use of automation at their gas distribution terminal. All pertinent information was data linked via a DCS system to an operations ...

Description: A large pharmaceutical company required a sanitary level measurement system for their blending tanks. The major requirements of this application were: * Sanitary * Clean-In-Place (CIP) and ...

Description: Many types of industrial processes utilize Liquid Level sensors to provide the information needed to monitor and control the process. This enables the design parameters to be maintained in order to ...

Description: Accurate liquid level measurement is crucial for the monitoring and control of batch and continuous chemical processing applications. Its purpose is to produce end products that are consistent in ...

Description: DanChem Technologies, based in Danville, Virginia, has an extensive array of both stainless steel and glass-lined reactors that are available for the manufacture of specialty fine chemicals, and ...

Description: A pharmaceutical company based in California uses level sensors to measure water solutions and buffers in its portable tanks. The company needed to obtain accurate and reliable measurement results for ...

Description: The Gas Company (TGC) is Hawaii's only full-service gas energy company, making gas products and services available to Hawaii's 1.3 million full-time residents and over 7 million visitors a year. TGC ...

Description: This paper is intended to introduce you to the technologies and installation techniques associated with level measurement of fluids. It is further focused on water based, non-flammable, fluid ...