Top 4 Water Flow Meter Types for Industries

The flow meter types mentioned in this article can really work well if you want to make the proper use of a water flow meter.

Posted 2 лет назад in Наука и технология.

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A water flow meter is a device able to gauge the quantity of water flowing through a pipe or channel. They are various water flow meter types available in the market that you can choose depending on the purpose you want to use. The applications of water flow meters depend on several factors that must be considered if you want to make a proper choice for the water flow meter type you want to install. When you choose a perfect water flow meter, it can offer you several benefits over an ordinary water flow meter.

The question that arises here is what kind of water flow meter you should install to make the proper use of water flow measurement? Four main types of water flow meters are used these days includes:    

  • Mechanical water flow meter
  • Ultrasonic water flow meter
  • Vortex volumetric flow meter 
  • Magnetic flow meter

Mechanical Flow Meters

Mechanical flow meters are the most widely used flow meters, and they are the most cost-effective water flow meters too. These water flow meters types include turbines with a shunt, propeller, or paddle wheel models. These water flow meters operate by regulating the water velocity flowing through the channel. As a result, the piston or turbine starts rotating. However, the main con of mechanical flow meters is that they may not give accurate readings when used for dirty water sources.

Vortex Flow Meters

The working of Vortex water flow meters is based on the principle of vortices. When a fluid body strikes with a rigid body, swirls or vortices are produced. The vortices produced when the fluid strikes the object has a certain frequency. This frequency is sensed by the sensors in the vortex flow meters. The sensed data is then converted and analyzed by the CPU unit. These water flow meters are used to find the flow rate of the liquid in changing environmental conditions such as pressure and temperature. 

Ultrasonic Flow Meters

Ultrasonic water flow meters are used to find the speed of water flow passing through a channel using the ultrasound principle to gauge the water flow. Basically, two signals are transmitted from the ultrasonic flow meters, one in the upstream direction of the water flow and the other in the downstream direction of water flow. The differential time in the two signals is noted, and the flow rate can be calculated. That is how the precise flow velocity of a fluid can be calculated.

Magnetic Flow Meter

Magnetic flowmeters use the principle of Faraday's law of magnetism to measure the flow speed of the water flowing through the pipe. We know a liquid produces emf when it flows through a field of magnetism. The more is the speed of the water flow, and the more is the emf produced. The voltage produced is calculated by the CPU unit and then processed into the flow rate units. As they measure through liquid magnetism, pure water can not be measured with much accuracy as pure water does not contain free ions for measurement.

Conclusion

Thus we see that a water flow meter is a useful instrument for flow measurement, and the flow meter types mentioned above can really work well if you want to make the proper use of a water flow meter. Thus, you should always do research in order to choose the perfect flow meter for your industrial need.

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