Flow Sensing Reference Materials

Description: Litre Meter has launched the second in a series of oil and gas industry safety surveys that will be introduced throughout 2014. ...

Description: Since the publication of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) standard on thermal dispersion mass flowmeters in 2011, there have been major advancements in the technology. A review of ...

Description: To meet China's growing need for electric power generation, the Guohua Ninghai Power Plant has a total planned operating capacity of 4 x 600 MW [Phase 1]. The plant is located south of Shanghai in ...

Description: The advent, benefits, and applications of MultiFlo technology. ...

Description: This customer wanted to do side-by-side fuel consumption comparisons of their product vs. their competitor s products. The object was to have a live demonstration of the consumption while the tractors ...

Description: The ability to better manage water supplies is becoming increasingly important as demand for water continues to escalate. Even in the UK, which enjoys a wetter climate than many global regions, ...

Description: Understanding Coriolis mass flowmeters. ...

Description: Accurate, reliable, cost effective flow measurement is more important today than it has ever been. The years have seen many styles and grades of flowmeter developed, because the first problem in meter ...

Description: Wasting compressed air is usually harmless to the environment. This may be the reason why air leaks are often not taken seriously. The fact is compressed air is the most expensive energy available in ...

Description: Every drop costs you money: The estimated cost associated with produced water treatment in the oil and gas industry in the United States is approximately $18 billion. The cost of cleaning produced ...

Description: F lare gas is the name given to the surplus waste gas produced during the extraction of crude oil and the subsequent refining process. It is typically vented to atmosphere and burned in a flare stack ...

Description: Gas chromatographs (GCs), mass spectrometers, optical spectrometers and photometers are a few examples of analyzer technologies applied in process and plant systems that need sample flow assurance. It ...

Description: A leading supplier of landfill gas extraction and recovery systems located in the Midwest region of the US relies on flow meters from Fluid Components International (FCI) for gas flow measurements in ...

Description: In oil/gas production, refining and storage operations around the globe, flare gas systems are used to burn-off and dispose of waste, excess or off-gases, and as a safety system. The accurate, ...

Description: Process and plant engineers at municipal wastewater treatment facilities need to measure, monitor and dispose of methane (CH 4) and other digester gases that occur naturally in their operations. These ...

Description: The footprint of mass flow and pressure sensors can be substantially reduced using MST/MEMS Equipment manufacturers are looking for compact solutions to monitor or control the gas flow or pressure ...

Description: Process, instrument and plant engineers are challenged continuously by productivity and plant operating efficiency objectives as well as ensuring plant compliance with an ever expanding list of ...

Description: A fast growing city in the arid desert regions of the Western U.S. recently addressed the need to expand its municipal service for new residents and subdivisions. In recent years, the city's ...

Description: The EPA recently implemented new regulations entitled, "Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases." The new regulations called for certain facilities emitting 25,000 metric tons or more per year of ...

Description: Flow Conditioners are widely recognized and applied in order to correct flow profile distortions caused by upstream flow disturbances. These unpredictable flow profile variations are neutralized by a ...

Description: Thermal flow measuring technology has come a long way since the introduction of thermocouple technology and early hot wire anemometers. Thermal technologies depend on heat transfer and traditionally ...

Description: It can be difficult at times to accurately monitor the use of consumables in many heat treating processes. A lot of the existing technology falls short when it comes to being highly accurate, capable ...

Description: Delivering saline solution to a clinic for medical needs ... sounds simple enough, right? Not when that clinic is on the International Space Station, the moon or even Mars. Transporting medical fluids ...

Description: Measuring chilled water (or condenser water, or hot water) flow in your system can't be that difficult, can it? After all, you just stick some kind of flow measurement device in your pipe and read its ...

Description: Building Automation Systems are often required to measure the actual air flow in air handling systems. Although there are many ways to measure air flow, the two most commonly used with BAS systems are ...

Description: Often, the first question asked regarding measurement and control of pH is "What exactly is pH anyhow?" The "p" in pH is actually a mathematical symbol for the negative logarithm, and the "H" ...

Description: Many seminars and technical sessions have been held to outline procedures for balancing variable flow water systems. Most of these sessions recommend "Proportional Balance." When this technique is ...

Description: Direct return Variable Flow Hydronic Systems (VFHS) must be designed to be self-balancing. However, in practice many design engineers will use customary pipe sizing routines, piping detail drawings, ...

Description: Many of today's large urban water treatment plants rely upon sophisticated chlorination processes in order to provide clean, sanitary water to millions of consumers in the US and around the globe. The ...

Description: The engineers at a municipal wastewater treatment utility were expanding their biogas digester system and were seeking an improvement over their existing, maintenance-intensive flow metering ...

Description: Many municipal water treatment plants utilize Ozone Treatment Systems to produce clean water for residential and industrial users. While all the various types of water treatment systems have their ...

Description: This paper provides the full results of a German test agency's long term stability test comparing magmeters' plastic lined vs. ceramic flow sensor constructions. Filling machine type magmeters were ...

Description: This paper explores the challenges of building an accurate pressure and/or flow controller and explains the benefits of integrating the Microfluidic Process Controller (MPC) from Parker into the ...

Description: Turning raw water obtained from various ground or surface water supplies into clean potable water fit for human consumption or industrial purposes requires the removal of contamination sources. Such ...

Description: The water used in the the cooling units, desalter units, and other water from throughout the plant creates a large amount of wastewater with VOC's that must be treated before it is recycled or ...

Description: Releasing combustible vapors and dangerous toxins into the atmosphere can result in emergency plant shutdowns. Such plant closures, which are often mandated by various government agencies, can be ...

Description: Digester gas is a mixed composition, consisting of methane, CO2 and trace gases. The amount of biogas flowing is a critical process parameter in order to prevent an excessive build-up of gas in the ...

Description: If you're planning to expand, upgrade or retrofit your plant in the near future, chances are that you'll be facing a real estate crisis when it comes to finding a place for all your new or upgraded ...

Description: While wireless technology has grown rapidly in terms of devices, functionality and availability in the consumer and commercial electronics markets, the wireless revolution is today a bit further ...

Description: In wastewater treatment plants, a variety of processes are employed to eliminate organic pollutants from water to ensure its safety and release for future uses. One of the most common processes is the ...

Description: Pumps are all too frequently one of the most overlooked and abused pieces of equipment in process automation, yet nothing moves without them and a process becomes inefficient when they don't operate ...

Description: Plant engineers have many flow measurement technology options when selecting flow sensors or flow meters to optimize heating-ventilation-air-conditioning (HVAC) and process control systems. It is ...

Description: Using impact plate, measuring chute and Coriolis technologies, Schenck AccuRate manufactures a family of mass flow meters. Working with Schenck AccuRate application engineers, customers are given the ...

Description: Thousands of bag-in-a-box beverage containers are filled daily throughout the country and total millions of gallons per year. These boxes are, in turn, distributed to wholesaler operations and various ...

Description: Diesel engines power much of the world's industrial activity. From railroad locomotives, to ships and boats, construction and agricultural machinery, remote and standby power generation and ...

Description: Hoffer Flow Controls has been supplying turbine flowmeters to the automobile drag race world for the past several years. Typically a small HO Series flowmeter with a magnetic pick up coil is supplied ...

Description: After the measurement of water, natural gas is the single most frequent fluid measured by Hoffer turbine flowmeters. A significant number of Hoffer turbine meters are used in the custody transfer ...

Description: Hoffer flow systems have been employed on street cleaning equipment commonly referred to as street flushers right here in our home state of North Carolina. In fact, we are proud to say that we help ...

Description: The town of Mont Belview, Texas, is located along the gulf coast. This geographic region is recognized for the vast underground salt cavern storage facilities. A number of refineries are also located ...

Description: Hoffer Flow Controls continues to supply many "insertion" type turbine flowmeters to the petroleum pipeline industry. This type of meter is commonly used for leak detection and not custody transfer. ...

Description: Hoffer Flow Controls turbine flowmeters and electronics play an integral part in many commercial processes, where there is a need for measurement of a clean liquid or gas. Many unique applications use ...

Description: Bi-directional, adjustable insertion turbine flowmeters from the HP Series were provided. Meters included 2" rotors in order to obtain repeatable flow rates as low as .25 FPS. Flowmeters were equipped ...

Description: Hoffer Flow Controls has recently supplied two computerized natural gas turbine flow measuring systems to Venezuela's gas industry. These systems accurately measure "mass" flow rate and total. ...

Description: Hoffer Flow Controls is proud to announce the successful conclusion to extensive Shock and Vibration Testing conducted on our HO2 & 4-inch Flowmeters and our HIT-2A Totalizers. Hoffer Flow Controls is ...

Description: Batching of solvent that is used to clean chassis prior to painting. In the case of Peterbilt, the EPA allows no more than 32 ounces to be sprayed on each chassis. The Hoffer batch controller has ...

Description: Hoffer Flow Controls has completed work on a project for Reliance in Jumnagar, India. The scope of the project involved the supply of 57 custody transfer turbine flowmeters along with meter runs, ...

Description: A pharmaceutical application for coating pills. This coating plays an important role in many medications. Pill coating makes taking pills more pleasant and more importantly it makes certain the pill ...

Description: Ultrapure deionized water is commonly used in the health care industry to manufacture products such as eye drops, nose spray, and hygiene products. This highly purified water, sometimes referred to as ...

Description: Currently, one of the strongest industrial growth markets is power generation. De-regulation of power and gas utilities in the United States and the increased demand for new power sources in emerging ...

Description: Hoffer Flow Controls is a supplier of flow products to various agencies within the U.S. government including the Navy. We have supplied flowmeters and flow switches for a number of shipboard ...

Description: Hoffer Flow Controls has recently supplied two flowmeters for use in the snowmaking process at Whitetail Ski Resort located in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. One of the flowmeters is a 2" gas turbine ...

Description: To monitor oil spray on the top and bottom of a continuous feed steel sheet for quality assurance and optimization of oil coating. In addition, to monitor return flow of unused oil to a storage tank ...

Description: It has long been known that some of the largest reserves of oil and gas lay below the waters of the world's oceans. For the last several decades the relatively shallow coastal waters have been the ...

Description: A flow controller's accuracy is typically expressed as a percent of Full-Scale flow (%FS). This means that the flow controller is most accurate when operating at its rated full-scale flow rate. This ...

Description: Thermal flow measuring technology has come a long way since the introduction of thermocouple technology and early hot wire anemometers. Thermal technologies depend on heat transfer and traditionally ...

Description: The ultimate flowmeter is one that is safe, can be used in all applications regardless of size and material compatibility, imparts no measurable effect on the flow stream, installs simply, is ...