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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 installation and calibration are the next steps to maintaining the equipment over the lif

It’s almost October and Fall is in the air. 2020 has turned out to be a tumultuous year and things seem to only be heating up. COVID-19 continues to be a daily factor in our lives, civil unrest is abundant, and the US economy remains volatile.

However, despite these obstacles, common among all manufacturing is a desire to optimize business processes, cut costs where they can, and keep the doors open while still providing the best possible service for their customers. A tangible

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, repeatable, and flexible gas supply systems for their bioreactors.  Due to the ever-evolving demands and critical and complex nature in the bio-industry, VA meters commonly used in this application are no longer suitable

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 savings on energy, maintenance, and processing costs. Vortex flow meters are perfect for measuring saturated and supersaturated steam in f

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 ventilators and respiratory medical equipment. Ventilators are designed to pump oxygen into a patient that is breathing insufficiently or unable to breathe on their own. A ventilator machine moves air into and out of a patient

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 want a truck or a tougher built car to handle your specific terrain.

The same applies when choosing a flow measurement device. If you need to measure wate

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 help streamline and improve their processes and cut costs. Sierra engineers identified current system weak points and recommended the new Sierra SmartTrak® 2 with a Compod™ upgrade.

By choosing to move forward with Sierra`s new di

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 tools must achieve high accuracy at low flows with varying gas compositions, temperatures and pressures. For many technologies, these requirements can be difficult to meet.

This article reviews various gas sampling challenges and describ

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 (InnovaSonic®). Sierra is the only company in the USA to design, build and calibrate all three flow technologies.

The Big-3 are optimized to be a complete solution for flow energy measurement—facility fl

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 recalibration can be expensive and cause production delays. For this reason, most big users of flowmeters opt for in-house calibration. This approach is often best—that is, as long as the user makes the required investment in the equipment needed to