How to specify liquid flowmeters

Free summary paper surveys all the different styles of flowmeter and discusses their ease of application, limitations, and other constraints

Experience from many years of design and supply of meters to meet various equipment and instrument specifications provides an insight into the application of flowmeter styles, and enables identification of those that are suitable for low liquid flows in particular.

Much of this expertise is outlined in a free summary paper, 'How to specify liquid flowmeters', in which Trevor Forster, MD of Titan Enterprises, surveys all the different styles of flowmeter and discusses the ease of application, limitations and other constraints.

He also points out where the design can be made configurable to ease the assembly process, and avoid unnecessary components.

Titan Enterprises supplies many styles of liquid flowmeter systems to instrumentation systems, analyser manufacturers, and OEMs.

Titan has specialised in developing flowmeters having bodies typically moulded in engineering plastics, with custom engineered process and electronic connections suited to the surrounding machinery.

It says this has allowed custom systems using standard components, to achieve low costs, whether for water, beer, paint, solvents, oils or chemicals.

Stainless steel or other metallic housings are also used for higher pressure applications.

Machinery builders and OEM applications tend to measure flow in ranges from 0.01l/min up to 500l/min, in 1/4" to 2" lines: this low flow area is where the Titan ranges of flow sensors concentrate.

But the selection guide also discusses metering of liquid flows in larger line sizes, and provides a simple tabulation, taking 13 application examples and charting these against 14 different types of flowmeter, highlighting the good, the bad, and the questionable techniques for each application.

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