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Sierra Instruments, Inc. Articles
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Avoid Common Flow Meter Installation Mistakes to Optimize Flow Meter Performance
In our last blog, we discussed how plant and operation managers are searching for ways to manage the flow energy in their facility to cut costs and increase their process efficiency. After the purchase decision is made, correct ...
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Why Mass Flow Controllers are Replacing VA Meters in Bioreactors
Upgrading to A Gas Mass Flow Controller Provides Greater Reliability for your Bioreactor When it comes to efficient bioreactor performance, precision mass flow control gas is critical. It is essential that bioreactor manufacturers have reliable, ...
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Getting the Most Out of your Steam Flow Measurement with Vortex Mass Flow Meters
Three tips for maximizing your vortex shedding meter’s efficiency. As far as steam flow measurement goes, vortex mass flow meters have become the flow technology of choice for most facilities and plants looking to incur significant ...
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Mass Flow Controllers Support Ventilator Testing
Precision Mass Flow Control Validates Ventilator Accuracy It’s actually a life and death matter, and we take this very seriously. Accurate mass flow control is crucial in the process of validating the accuracy of oxygen flow for mechanical ...
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Understanding the Mass Flow Meter and Mass Flow Controller Flow Body – Why it Matters.
When it comes to mass flow meters and controllers size matters. Not all flow meters are the same. It’s like choosing a car. All cars are designed to move you from point A to B. However, if you live high up in the mountains you might ...
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Accuracy In Adversity
It is a fact of the industry that oil and gas companies are required, by various rules and regulations, to routinely perform gas sampling to establish gas composition, flow rates and gas properties. In order to comply with regulations, gas sampling ...
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Sierra helps biotech firm build their competitive edge
Challenged by their outdated gas mixing systems, budgetary constraints and a turbulent economy, a leading US biotech firm, who depends on precision gas mixing and blending to maintain synthetic air environments for research, sought out Sierra to ...
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Achieving accurate gas flowmeter calibration
The calibration of gas flowmeters and/or flow controllers is one of those important, inescapable tasks that can be something of a nuisance to the engineer responsible for getting the job done. Sending flowmeters back to the manufacturer for ...
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Your complete flow energy solution is here
Flow meter technologies designed, built and calibrated in California by Sierra. For what we call our Big-3, Sierra has become a recognized expert in thermal mass (QuadraTherm®), vortex shedding (InnovaMass®), and transit-time ultrasonic ...
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Thermal Mass Flow Meters Improve Efficiency in Wastewater Treatment Plants
Every municipality throughout the country has a wastewater treatment plant to safely treat water that enters back into our environment. This doesn’t mean they are immune to problems. One of the biggest problems for US wastewater treatment ...
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How to Specify the Best Mass Flow Meter or Controller for Your Application
A question we get a lot from our customers is how to determine which Sierra mass flow meter or mass flow controller is best for their application. Followed up by: What’s the difference between an economical mass flow controller ...
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Flare gas mass flow metering innovations promise more economical choices
INTRODUCTION As the drive towards energy independence in the United States continues at full speed, oil and gas companies are turning to hydraulic fracturing to increase production. Increasingly stringent state and national regulations for flare ...
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The advantages of multivariable Vortex flowmeters
Faced with less time and personnel to devote to an increasing range of control and measurement problems, engineers must often weigh the cost of inaccuracy against the initial and maintenance costs of flowmeters. This demand for higher accuracy and ...
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A Tale of Two Thermals: Capillary & Immersible
About: The Core Technology White Paper Series is a four part series detailing the flow technologies that allow Sierra to offer a flow solution for nearly any gas, liquid and steam application. Part 1 focuses on Sierra’s two types of thermal ...
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Take control of your facility flows - A Sierra flow energy field guide
WHEN YOUR FLOWS ARE RUNNING GOOD, YOU’RE RUNNING GOOD. To achieve your goals, you want to make your facility as efficient and productive as possible and know you are in control of costs. Accurate flow measurement is one great way to make this ...
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Delivering mission critical for NASA – Case Study
Early developments in the evolution of mass flow meters in the 1950’s were largely driven by the need for highly accurate readings. Over the last 50 years the demand for substantially reduced margins of error has only intensified. For the ...
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Cultivating geothermal energy sources – Case Study
Since the early twentieth century, geothermal energy has been used to produce electricity. In the 1980’s and 90’s, rapid expansion in the demand for geothermal energy put pressure on suppliers to reduce costs and increase efficiencies. ...
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Gas mixing and blending equipment – Case Study
How They Work A specific gas blend within a chamber must be produced by a procedure known as ideal gas mixing (or gas blending). In this example, synthetic air composition is maintained at a mix ratio of 78% N2, 21% O2 and 1% Ar. A miniature ...
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Fiberglass manufacturing requires precise gas ratio control – Case Study
Fiberglass insulation manufacturing is almost akin to making cotton candy! A mixture of silica and other components are melted and passed through a spinning extruder, then rapidly cooled with compressed air. As older fiberglass ...
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High voltage switchgear SF6 maintenance – Case Study
Just like the main circuit breaker in your home, city grids have main on/off switches called switchgears. When these high voltage switchgears open or close, huge "lightning-like" arcs of electricity are created. If not maintained correctly, these ...
