If your compressed air system lacks flow measurement, you are likely paying for air you never use. A widely cited U.S. Department of Energy statistic puts compressed air at about 10% of total industr...

The morning production meeting at a mid-sized chemical plant started with the same discrepancy that had appeared on every shift report for the past month. The reactor feed line was metered by a posit...

Purchasing a flow meter is not a simple “pick a unit and forget it” decision. The wrong device can drive up energy costs, reduce batch consistency, or even create safety problems in a plant. The firs...

A process engineer at a polymer plant notices an 8.4 percent discrepancy in the daily material balance. The feed line to the reactor reports 1,800 m³/h of propylene gas at 1.1 bar and 30°C, but the u...

An engineer at a potable water treatment plant once saw the flow indication from a magnetic flowmeter and a clamp-on ultrasonic meter disagree by more than 10 percent. The immediate assumption was th...

A petrochemical facility in eastern China operated two flow meters in series on the same saturated steam header: a vortex meter downstream and a Coriolis mass flow meter upstream. For a full month th...