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• Best Practices: Safety And Certainty With Actual Gas Calibration Of Thermal Mass Flow Meters

  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 industrially robust sensor technology, but if the calibration is inaccurate or subject to uncertainty due to an equivalency-based calibration or simulation methods rather than an "actual" fluid calibration, then the device could produce unsatisfactory performance issues.

• Thermal Flow Meter Improves Digester Gas System Fueling Boilers For Plant Steam And Hot Water

  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 challenge for plant engineers when it comes to measuring reactor air and digester gas flow is that a relatively small number of flow meter technologies are capable of reliable measurement under the variable climate and dirty operating environments encountered at wastewater treatment plants.  

• Multipoint Thermal Mass Flow Meters Improve Boiler Air Preheater (APH) System Efficiency

  Engineers who need to optimize boiler efficiency for electric power generation will find the MT100 and ST102A Multipoint Thermal Mass Flow Meters from Fluid Components International (FCI) help them accurately measure recycled hot air from stack gases in order to reduce the consumption and cost of fuel.

• Air/Gas Flow Measurement For Turbomachinery: What You Don’t Know Can Be Frustrating

  The accurate, repeatable flow measurement of air and gases is critical to the safe, efficient and cost-effective operation of turbomachinery and related equipment in the electric power generation, oil/gas production/refining and other industries. Choosing the wrong air/gas flow meter sensing technology can have significant consequences.

• Reliable Thermal Switch Ensures Safe Operation Of Loading Arms At Marine Terminal To Prevent Spills

  A leading European-based marine terminal operator with locations on every major continent is responsible for the managing, handling, storing and distribution of large quantities of oil and gas, as well as refined petrochemicals, which serve industries and consumers around the globe. The company’s thousands of employees are highly trained and are focused on the safe, reliable and efficient storage of large quantities of bulk products at each of its locations.

• How To Comply With NFPA Code 30 Requirements For Level And Flow Detection

  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 codes are recognized and enforceable under OSHA and many state and local regulations.

• Aeration Air Flow On PROFIBUS Communications-Based DCS In Wastewater Treatment Plant

  A major municipal wastewater treatment plant in Scandinavia was incrementally upgrading and converting the plant’s control system from a traditional analog-based system (e.g. 4-20 mA) to PROFIBUS-based digital bus communications. The plant was very successful using, and has installed, FCI constant power technology thermal flow meters, Models AF88 and ST98, in the aeration lines for many years. Can FCI help them convert and upgrade the aeration flow control to PROFIBUS utilizing the same constant power technology thermal flow meters?

• Chlorine Gas Flow Meter In Chlorinator System

  Chlorinators are a frequently used system for water disinfection in municipal and industrial water treatment processes.  
   

• Optimizing Wastewater Treatment Plant Aeration System Air Flow Measurement

  The air flow into the aeration basins at a major wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) located in Northeastern USA were continuously running at maximum flow resulting in significant, and excessive, energy cost and excess wear and tear on the aeration blowers.

• Sewage Lift Station Pumping System

  Lack of sufficient straight pipe run made it impossible to successfully apply the preferred magnetic flow meter (magmeter) to accurately measure the flow of raw sewage.