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Industrial Control Valve Actuator Operating Principles

Control valve actuators control fluid in a pipe by varying the orifice size through which the fluid flows. Control valves contain two maj...

SITRANS FC430 Coriolis Flowmeter Wins Control Engineering’s 2017 Engineers’ Choice Award

SITRANS FC430 Coriolis Flow Meter The Siemens SITRANS FC430 Coriolis flow meter, with National Type Evaluation Program custody transfer...

An Extremely Thin, Multipoint, Temperature Measuring System

Example of use (click for larger view) Do you want to install a very large number of measuring points in the smallest possible space wit...

Industrial, Fixed Point Gas Detection and Monitoring

Toxic / Flammable Gas Detection (courtesy of Sensidyne ) In industry, the assessment and control of risk factors is a crucial element of...

Valve Actuators: An Overview

Rack & Pinion Actuated Valve (courtesy of Flowserve Worcester ) Valves are essential to industries which constitute the backbone of...

Basics of Variable Area Flowmeters (Rotameters)

Rotameter (variable area flowmeter courtesy of SIEMENS ) Rotameters (variable area flowmeters) can be used to measure many different ...

Basics of Turbine Flowmeters

Turbine flow meter internal view (courtesy of Niagara ) Turbine flowmeters are displacement devices which mechanically measure fluid ...

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