Flow Sensing Reference Materials

Description: In industrial flow measurement, accuracy does not depend on the flow meter alone. Installation conditions play an equally critical role. During installation, one factor we may overlook is straight ...

Description: Calibrating electromagnetic flowmeters is essential for ensuring accurate measurement, which is crucial for various industrial applications. Over time, magnetic flowmeters can experience drift, ...

Description: Are rising energy costs and process inefficiencies impacting your bottom line? In today's industrial environments, controlling energy costs while maximizing operational efficiency is essential for ...

Description: When a flowmeter produces inconsistent or inaccurate readings, it can disrupt operations, reduce efficiency, and compromise compliance. Follow this step-by-step troubleshooting guide to identify and ...

Description: Investing in modern flowmeter technology can significantly enhance operational performance and cost savings across a range of industries. To build a strong business case, it’s essential to ...

Description: In the areas of Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production, removal of hydrocarbons are becoming increasingly dependent on injected and re-injected fluids to facilitate hydrocarbon release; as new smaller ...

Description: This paper explores the issue of permanent pressure loss through various types of flow metering technologies. Of particular interest is the V-Cone. The V-Cone flowmeter is a differential pressure ...

Description: Water scarcity, increasing populations, and climate change are shifting the global perception of the value of water to been seen not just as a commodity, but as an invaluable resource to be protected. ...

Description: With the continuous increase in demand for energy worldwide, the popularity of cleanburning natural gas has grown rapidly over the past decades. Its relatively abundant supply, along with new high ...

Description: One of the most serious and persistent diseases that plagues grape growers on the West Coast is Grapevine powdery mildew (Erisiphe necator). It is a fungal disease that effects wine grape, table ...

Description: Thanks to an abundance of water in the past, our customer was not measuring. However, now that resources are depleting, our customer must install a meter to monitor drinking water flow and discover ...

Description: This paper describes the principles and field use of the McCrometer V-Cone D.P. flow meter used in the role of wellhead metering, injection measurement allocation metering, custody transfer of both ...

Description: Installation effects of upstream disturbances on flowmeters are important in today’s marketplace. Lengthy upstream piping required by many types of flowmeters can substantially increase the cost ...

Description: Electromagnetic Flow Meters, or “Mag Meters,” are the most widely used meter technology to measure the flow of water in the world today. As populations expand, water measurement and ...

Description: Water and wastewater professionals rely on accurate flow measurements for process operation and regulatory compliance. Selecting the best flow meter for each application is essential to obtaining ...

Description: Accurately measuring flow is critical for water utility operations. Also, regulatory agencies mandate flow monitoring and require annual calibration of meters. But even a meter in perfect condition ...

Description: Accurately measuring flow is critical for water utility operations. Also, regulatory agencies mandate flow monitoring and require annual calibration of meters. But even a meter in perfect condition ...

Description: Steam system operators can pay a high price for generating product that passes through a meter but fails to get measured. Also known as low flow cutoff, those losses are a function of the turndown ...

Description: When space is tight and straight-run piping is at a premium, V-Cone® differential pressure (DP) meters (Figure 1) are an excellent choice — especially where the potential for turbulence ...

Description: This article explains how proper grounding minimizes electrical noise in electromagnetic flow measurement. It outlines practical grounding solutions for metal and non-metal pipes, introduces modern ...

Description: This article explains how sealing components are defined and certified under explosion-protection standards, clarifies the real safety concerns behind material selection, and distinguishes plugs from ...

Description: Learn the working principle, installation, calibration, selection and maintenance of electromagnetic flowmeters. ...

Description: Frequent diaphragm failures can cripple plant operations and drive up maintenance costs. For facilities relying on Air-Operated Double Diaphragm (AODD) pumps, these issues often stem from one root ...

Description: Flow meters are vital to the integrity and accuracy of fluid processing systems, but they are also vulnerable to one common and costly problem: pulsation. Using a pulsation dampener for flow meter ...

Description: As data centers grow in size and power demands, cooling systems are under pressure - driving up both energy use and utility costs. Discover how smarter flow measurement with electromagnetic flow ...

Description: Top Industries That Rely on Flowmeters for Efficiency and Compliance ...

Description: Understanding Flowmeter Accuracy, Repeatability, and Rangeability ...

Description: Steam flow monitoring solutions are offered using different types of flowmeters. Each has its own features and benefits. ...

Description: Accurate measurement with electromagnetic flowmeters depends on proper installation and maintenance. Ensuring correct calibration, stable flow velocity, clean electrodes, and bubble-free pipelines ...

Description: Flanges connect pipes, sensors, and flow meters with strength, reliability, and easy maintenance. Learn about common flange types, materials, and standards to help you choose the right one for your ...

Description: As climate change disrupts global weather patterns, the frequency of flood events has increased dramatically. Ultrasonic sensors are being leveraged to create responsive flood detection systems. ...

Description: Measuring the movement of gases is critical in many industries. Inaccurate flow measurements can lead to waste, inefficiencies, loss of revenue, and safety hazards. With so many types of flow meters ...

Description: Choosing the right flowmeter for palm oil requires balancing accuracy, viscosity handling, cost, and maintenance. This article compares mass Coriolis and oval gear meters, helping you evaluate which ...

Description: Learn how to prevent costly flow measurement errors by understanding the key factors that impact meter accuracy, from fluid properties to installation and lifecycle costs-ensuring reliable performance ...

Description: Ensure precise flow measurement by considering key factors such as fluid type, system conditions, and accuracy needs. A tailored approach helps optimize turbine flow meter performance across diverse ...

Description: Compliance with EPA regulations for boilers and process heaters results in efficient operation and lower greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding flow measurement technology can help in this effort. ...

Description: Explore key instruments used in sewage monitoring, from cost-effective options to high-accuracy solutions. Learn which technologies suit different site conditions, media types, and project budgets to ...

Description: Electromagnetic flowmeters offer flexibility for various conductive fluids, with different liners and electrodes tailored to specific media. Selecting the right combination ensures both accuracy and ...

Description: When selecting a positive displacement flow meter, it's crucial to match the meter to your application's specific needs, balancing accuracy, fluid characteristics, and system pressure. Proper ...

Description: Learn how to troubleshoot common issues with electromagnetic flow meters, including no signal output, weak or unstable readings, and inaccurate flow values. Practical checks and solutions help restore ...

Description: Learn key tips for selecting ultrasonic open channel flow meters based on different weir and channel types. Understand how range selection and proper installation conditions affect measurement ...

Description: Measurement of fluid materials is a key metric for numerous sectors of many different industries, and advances in flow measurement are helping these parts of the industry in various ways. ...

Description: When measuring liquid levels in dented vessels, irregularities in shape can affect height-based measurements. Solutions include using the HPT604-LT submersible level sensor, which calculates both ...

Description: Air pumps are devices used to move or compress air, commonly employed in various applications such as aquariums, HVAC systems, industrial processes, and inflating objects. While the exact working ...

Description: Ensure measurement precision with proper magmeter calibration. This guide outlines key setup steps, calibration techniques, and post-process tips to maintain accuracy, reduce drift, and extend ...

Description: Water scarcity, increasing populations, and climate change are shifting the global perception of the value of water to been seen not just as a commodity, but as an invaluable resource to be protected. ...

Description: New is always better, right? Not exactly. New can be expensive, unnecessary, and harder to get company approval for purchase. So when your flow meter needs maintenance, upgrades, or just a good ...

Description: From agriculture, to manufacturing, to the oil and gas sector, and beyond, flow meters play a vital role in ensuring safe, reliable operations of critical liquid and gas infrastructure. You must be ...

Description: Electromagnetic flow meters (also called mag meters, electromag meters or magnetic flow meters), are volumetric flow meters that use electromagnetic induction to measure liquid velocity. This method ...

Description: Accurately measuring the flow of liquid, steam, or gas is often a difficult challenge for engineers who must contend with a hazardous flow environment, multiple pump inputs, and diverse infrastructure ...

Description: What is a Cooling Tower? A cooling tower is a device or structure that cools water that was used to remove heat from an industrial process or from air conditioning equipment. Cooling towers are heat ...

Description: Learn how to troubleshoot black or white screen issues with your magnetic flowmeter. This guide covers common causes such as power problems, voltage instability, display malfunctions, and system ...

Description: Given that it does not emit carbon emissions, hydrogen is garnering attention as a clean energy resource in order to achieve carbon neutrality, an ambition of the sustainable development goals (SDGs). ...

Description: Natural gas pipeline booster compressor stations require careful monitoring, maintenance and emissions reporting to ensure the safe, efficient and environmentally compliant processing and transport of ...

Description: The design engineers at a European industrial equipment firm recognized early that their turnkey solution for a green hydrogen (H2) proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell electrolyzer would require ...

Description: A common measurement task in medical and industrial applications is to measure volume or mass flow. It is important to know the pros and cons of various sensor technologies. There are two methods for ...

Description: To meet specific application needs, a wide range of flow sensing technologies are now available for use in various industries. Commercially available MEMS (microelectromechanical system) flow sensors, ...

Description: Proper flow management and line stopping solutions are essential to operating efficiently and avoiding disruptions that could cost your business dearly. Any attempt at neglecting these requirements ...

Description: In the pneumatic industry, CV is one standard for expressing the flow capacity of devices used in a pneumatic system. However, there are multiple other standards that also express flow capacity. Some ...

Description: An ultrasonic meter works by sending ultrasonic pulses between transducers through a fluid in a pipe. It measures the difference in transit times of these pulses downstream and upstream, which ...

Description: Industrial fluid flow measurement and control technologies are well established for applications involving large pipes, but accelerating market trends present a distinct and pressing challenge ...

Description: The EPI MULTI series flow meters are multi-point, which use multiple connected sensor assemblies connected to a remote control panel for metering large pipes/ducts. The EPI MULTI series flow meters ...

Description: The EPI MULTI series flow meters are multi-point, which use multiple connected sensor assemblies connected to a remote control panel for metering large pipes/ducts. The EPI MULTI series flow meters ...

Description: The best way to ensure the continued accuracy of your equipment is to use ongoing verification, maintenance and calibration services. A well-maintained flow meter will operate more efficiently than ...

Description: Industries such as oil and gas, chemical manufacturing, and petrochemicals often operate in environments where flammable or explosive materials are present. In these hazardous zones, the need for ...

Description: Environmental protection has always been an industry that we continue to cultivate deeply. Integrated sewage treatment equipment, environmental engineering, rural sewage treatment projects, membrane ...

Description: With the increasing demand for the new energy vehicle market, various supply chain industries have surged. Among them, the lithium cell, as one of the most important components, accounts for 40%-50% ...

Description: How to Meet Small Pipe Challenges in Manufacturing Fluid Flow ...

Description: With the increasing demand for the new energy vehicle market, various supply chain industries have surged. Among them, the lithium cell, as one of the most important components, accounts for 40%-50% ...

Description: Its installation can be divided into five types: pipe flange connected electromagnetic flowmeter, sanitary clamp-type electromagnetic flowmeter, threaded connected electromagnetic flowmeter, insertion ...

Description: Macnaught is the global leader in Positive Displacement Oval Gear and Industrial Turbine Meter manufacturing and has been since 1964. Our meters are designed for clean process fluids from water to ...

Description: In the process of flowmeter production, multiple steps such as coil winding, lining processing, and electrode assembly are required. This series of operations will cause certain errors and dispersion ...

Description: A Leading North American Rail Car Services Company required a robust and accurate industrial grade flow meter for offloading numerous Oils with vastly different viscosities. Additionally, the system ...

Description: In order to increase the sewage treatment capacity and improve the efficiency of sewage treatment, the sewage treatment plant uses the integrated equipment of MBR membrane bioreactor to treat sewage. ...

Description: A Leading North American Rail Car Services Company required a robust and accurate industrial grade flow meter for offloading numerous Oils with vastly different viscosities. Additionally, the system ...

Description: In order to ensure the ecological water use of rivers and lakes, promote the green development of small hydropower stations, and maintain the healthy life of rivers, the Ministry of Water Resources ...

Description: Sewage treatment is an important part of living environment protection. Its purpose is to separate and remove the pollutants contained in the water, so as to alleviate the increasingly serious ...

Description: Environmental protection has always been an industry that we continue to cultivate deeply. Integrated sewage treatment equipment, environmental engineering, rural sewage treatment projects, membrane ...

Description: Ballast water is critical to the safe and efficient operation of shipping. Wing and double bottom tank ballast water level measurement is used to control ship trim, draft, and heel, reduce hull ...

Description: According to statistics from the International Energy Agency (IEA), building energy consumption accounts for more than 36% of global energy consumption. While, direct and indirect greenhouse gas ...

Description: The UN has warned that countries need to cut emissions by as much as five times their planned amount over the next 11 years to avert the worst effects of global warming. One of the most effective ...

Description: A snapshot of the advantages of our MX Series Oval Gear Meter as compared to the most common types of flowmeters on the market. ...

Description: Water is vital for life, yet despite 70 percent of the Earth’s surface being covered in water, limited quantities are available to sustain humanity. The 97 percent of water retained in the ...

Description: The weather in different parts of the world is different. Some countries have high temperatures all year round, and some countries are located near the polar circle and are very cold. Therefore, these ...

Description: MX25 series flow meter (1.6-42 GPM) with anodized aluminum body, PPS rotors, and Viton seal sent initially for validation. Equipped with standard pulse cap (Reed Switch/Hall Effect) and supplied with ...

Description: There are numerous choices within the Industrial Flow Meter space these days, with a wide array of design options and enhancements providing for highly accurate, durable and cost effective flow ...

Description: As the global oval gear flow meter technology leader with over 50 years experience serving the pulp & paper industry, Macnaught offers a comprehensive product range that solves a number of challenging ...

Description: The EPI MULTI series flow meters are multi-point, which use multiple connected sensor assemblies connected to a remote control panel for metering large pipes/ducts. ...

Description: Industrial compressed air system leaks have been identified for decades as a serious cost issue that also adds to the strain on the electric grid, according the U.S. Department of Energy and many ...

Description: How do you convert an air velocity measurement to a volumetric flow rate? It is important to understand the various formulas and technical definitions to prevent errors in calculation. Flow meter ...

Description: The best process observation window might not be in a catalogue or sitting on a warehouse shelf. It might exist as an idealistic drawing on the back of a napkin. Or the opposite of ideal might be ...

Description: Most homes have Linky electricity meters – and now local authorities are using smart meters to detect water leaks more quickly and let households monitor consumption. ...

Description: The EPI MULTI series flow meters are multi-point, which use multiple connected sensor assemblies connected to a remote control panel for metering large pipes/ducts. The EPI MULTI series flow meters ...

Description: The EPI MULTI series flow meters are multi-point, which use multiple connected sensor assemblies connected to a remote control panel for metering large pipes/ducts. The EPI MULTI series flow meters ...

Description: In the whole process, the electromagnetic flowmeter plays an indispensable role - measuring the amount of sewage treatment & effluent discharge. ...

Description: Richard Koeken, Fluid Components International (FCI), and Alessandro Esposito, Precision Fluid Controls, explain how flow meters can help refiners to optimise boiler air feed for sulfur recovery units ...

Description: Oil refineries separate crude oil into a variety of feedstocks and final products through high pressure distillation processes, which require extremely high temperatures that can approach 750°F ...

Description: As part of the utility's Green Recovery Program, Severn Trent Water is working with Itron Inc. to deploy 157,000 of the compan's smart water meters in Warwickshire to better monitor its water ...

Description: The EPI MULTI series flow meters are multi-point, which use multiple connected sensor assemblies connected to a remote control panel for metering large pipes/ducts. The EPI MULTI series flow meters ...

Description: The EPI MULTI series flow meters are multi-point, which use multiple connected sensor assemblies connected to a remote control panel for metering large pipes/ducts. The EPI MULTI series flow meters ...