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Making Every Drop Count: Maximizing Revenues With ABB's AquaMaster Flowmeters

Extracting maximum revenue from water supplied to customers is critical to the profitability of any water supplier. Water that is either lost or 'stolen' from water networks can result in extensive financial losses for water companies. Learn how the accuracy and repeatability of electromagnetic flowmeters offer an ideal solution for revenue management applications.

Differential Pressure Flow Measurement: Safety by Design — From Wedges to Dual Chamber Orifice Fittings

The requirements for flow metering are constantly changing and evolving to meet customer demands. Differential Pressure meters have long been a standard, but are often – and wrongly – perceived as obsolete. Learn how proven technology and innovative DP Flow measurement can provide safe, repeatable measurements for difficult applications in all industries, including gas metering in the Oil & Gas industry.

Flow Measurement by the Book

In its latest edition entitled "Industrial Flow Measurement – Basics and Practice," ABB's Flow Measurement Handbook has helped generations of instrumentation practitioners navigate the application ins and outs of industrial flow measurement devices. Here, we've broken that 300-page reference tome into more manageable chapters, downloadable as PDFs:

Introduction to Flowmeter Physics

Essential fluid mechanical concepts including viscosity Reynolds number, turbulence, energy and flow rate equations.

Volumetric & Totalizer Devices

Operating principles and application of flow instrumentation based on positive displacement, turbine, vortex and swirl phenomena.

Flow Measurement Devices

Operating principles and application of flow instrumentation based on differential pressure, magnetic and ultrasonic phenomena.

Quality, Safety and Data Integrity Considerations

An overview of ancillary flow instrumentation qualifications including quality certifications, hazardous area classifications, electrical interference and digital communication protocols.

Device Selection Criteria

Overview designed to guide the user in evaluating which technology to use for any given application conditions includes decision flow charts.

Technology Strengths & Limitations

Summary of the application strengths and limitations of various flow instrumentation technologies.

Materials and Corrosion Resistance Tables

Applicable Standards & Regulations

Technology Selection Decision Flowchart

Other Flow Measurement Resources

White Paper: Application of Isolation Seals

White Paper: Differential Flow Measurement

White Paper: Flowmeter Selection Critieria

White Paper: Vortex vs. Swirl Meter Technologies

Article: Magmeter Maintenance Requirements

Article: Optimized, Small-Footprint Coriolis Flowmeter

Article: How to Keep Impulse Lines Full

Article: The Ins and Outs of Industrial Flow Measurement

Article: A Back-to-Basics Tutorial in Magnetic Flowmeters

Article: What We Know About Upstream Pipe Run Requirements

Article: Magmeter Field Calibration Considerations

Article: Treating Hong Kong's Wastewater

Basics of Flow Measurement Video Series

Developed in conjunction with the 2011 ABB Automation & Power World, this series of video presentations by flow measurement expert Ron Digiacomo walks the viewer through the essential principles of industrial flow measurement, as well as the application pros and cons of all major flow measurement technologies. Click to download WMV files for viewing at your convenience.

Essential Flow Measurement Concepts (11 minutes)

Differential Pressure Flow Measurement (15 minutes)

Velocity & Volume Flow Measurement (15 minutes)

Direct Mass Flow Measurement (5 minutes)