07/09/09 : RE-ENERGIZING CALIFORNIA
Sierra Instruments is hard at work in the geothermal steam fields of the West where rugged reliability matters. In energy-strapped California, one emerging technology is using the natural geothermal reservoirs
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07/09/09 : Brooks Instrument Completes Acquisition of Celerity's Instrumenation Division
Hatfield, Pennsylvania (June 15, 2009) — Brooks Instrument, a world-leading provider of flow measurement and control devices and level gauges, today announced that it has acquired certain assets of Celerity’s Instrumentation division, a technology leader in precision instruments and advanced gas and liquid delivery solutions for the global semiconductor, solar, and electronics industries. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. 
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09/09/09 : Metal Sealed Digital Mass Flow Controller
Bronkhorst High-Tech B.V. manufactures metal sealed mass flow meters/controllers, designed especially to meet the requirements of the semicon market as well as other high purity gas applications. The instruments feature high surface quality and are of modular construction with metal-to-metal seals that ensure long-term leak tightness.  More>>

12/11/08 : Flowmeter Support Center in Austin
Brooks Instrument is pleased to announce the opening of a new Regional Support Center in Austin, Texas, USA offering expanded services to its industrial customers for their Brooks thermal mass flow meters and controllers.  The previous office in Austin provided emergency repair and calibration services principally for its semiconductor customers. Once in its new facilities, this center’s capabilities will expand to offer a full range of thermal mass flow services to its wider industrial customer base. More>>

12/11/08 : MASS-VIEW High-Tech replacement for VA meters
The new MASS-VIEW® flow meter series are a digital alternative to the conventional VA meters (variable area meters) or rotameters. The MASS-VIEW® flow meter series incorporates a digital bar graph of actual gas flow, which is, thanks to the OLED (organic light emitting diode) technology, clearly visible from all angles, as well as indicating flow units, gas type and totalised figures. Also available with an optional in-built needle valve for flow control duties, it is designed to mimic the straightforward features and vertical format of the VA meter, but with the considerable added benefits of an electronic output signal, . More>>

15/07/08 : Highly Accurate Biogas Flow Rates in Sewage Treatment Digestrs
The methane-rich biogas posed a problem for conventional flow meters which could not cope with the low flow rates, low pressure and high humidity specific to biogas. Using optical laser beams to measure the velocity of naturally-occurring particulates, the Focus® Probe enables highly accurate flow determination despite pipe vibration, acoustic noise and gas condensation.  More>>

15/07/08 : Flowmeter Applications From Flow-Network
Flowmeters for Casting Machines, Ready Mix Concrete Trucks, Vegetable Oil for Feed, Ventilation Systems For Subway Trains, Fuel Monitoring Systems, Automatic Liquid-Solid Separator More>>

10/12/07 : The Evolution of Thermal Mass Flow Meters
Thermo-Systems, Inc. (TSI) began in its founder’s basement in 1959, with a cooled-film anemometer designed for transient measurements in high temperature fluid flows. This led to TSI’s hot-film and hot-wire anemometers, the first commercial products of this type. These immersion-type devices were used mainly as research instruments, many related to environmental pollution. More>>

10/12/07 : Micro Fluidic Flow and Pressure Control Modules for Integration Into Compact Systems
Equipment manufacturers are looking for compact solutions to monitor or control the gas flow or pressure within their systems. As these systems are getting smaller and smaller, the incorporated flow and/or pressure control units need to be miniaturized. For example, the dimensions of a conventional gas chromatograph (GC) are approximately 1 x 1 x 1 m. The latest generation of (portable) GCs may have dimensions down to circa 25 x 25 x 25 cm. More>>

17/09/07 : Maintenance Free Flow Monitoring
A flow monitoring site located on the effluent of the Town of Erie Colorado’s Water Reclamation Facility had been problematic from the start due to a very steep fall designed into the system just in front of the metering location. Erie, Colorado’s Water Reclamation Facility was built in 1998 and is a 1.2 mgd activated sludge water reclamation facility. The water reclamation facility utilizes various physical and biological processes to remove the organic and inorganic constituents from wastewater generated by residential, commercial, and industrial sources. More>>

17/09/07 : Solid Conveying Eductors
Fox Valve is the leading global supplier of venturi eductors and venturi transport systems for pneumatic conveying of powders, pellets, and bulk solids. They enable the use of low pressure air ( below 14 psig or 1 bar) to be used to move powders, pellets, and bulk solids with no moving parts. More>>

18/08/07 : Low-Power Portable Flow Meters
Tucson, Arizona- Alicat Scientific Inc.'s series of portable mass flow meters and liquid flow meters, utilizes a battery pack with a standard 9 volt battery to make metering gas flow, pressure, or water flow in the field, and in the lab, convenient and reliable. More>>

18/08/07 : Turbine Flowmeters for Aerospace Engine testing
Hoffer Flow Controls has been awarded a contract to supply turbine flowmeters to a major U.S. space agency. The turbine flowmeters will be used to test large propulsion engines. We are pleased to be a part of this program. The customer specifying the turbine flowmeters has been playing a key support role since the early 1960's with work on the Saturn program. More>>

13/08/07 : Solid State Air Flow Sensing
Typically the measurement involves two PTC thermistors embedded in the probe tip or wall of the sensor. One of the PTC thermistors (the reference thermistor) monitors the temperature of the medium being measured (air, water, oil, etc.) while the other is heated a fixed percentage above the reference thermistor. This sets up a differential resistance between the two. More>>

13/08/07 :Magnetic Inductive Flowmeter for Water Treatment at Coca Cola FEMSA
In the Coca Cola batching plants of the FEMSA company in Buenos Aires, Argentina, à SIGNET water and waste water treatment devices are being implemented. The FEMSA company, which is domiciled in Mexico and the actual licensor for Coca Cola batching in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, wants to renovate and expand the water treatment systems at their batching plants. More>>

04/08/07 : Flowmeter for Valve stem leak test
Brooks low flow thermal mass flow meters provide a simple and accurate method of testing flow components for outboard leakage. Regulated air or helium is used to pressurize the valve under test. The Brooks 5860E will precisely measure any leakage at the valve stem. More>>

19/07/07 : Data Delivery Services
Marsh-McBirney’s Data Delivery Services (DDS) Program has been enthusiastically embraced by flow professionals nationwide. In the following interview Dave Baker, DDS Manager, discusses the many advantages that DDS offers and why he feels that this new service is going to turn the flow industry upside down.More>>

19/07/07 : Liquid flow sensor for nano- and micro-flow ranges
Accurate measurement and control of tiny liquid flows of the order of nanolitres through millilitres per minute is becoming more and more important for a lot of applications in the life science, analysis (e.g. HPLC), biotech, synthesis (of e.g. pharmaceuticals) and nanotechnology markets. More>>