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- Category: News
- Coming soon: Intrinsically safe flow and pressure control
- Alicat and Graftel are partnering to ensure quick turnarounds on recalibrations
- Alicat is now offering IP66 and IP67 certifications for industrial communication devices
- 9v firmware update
- Alicat announces new integrated vacuum pressure controllers
- Fusion Flow Technologies: Turn-key gas mixing solutions customized for industrial use
- Alicat releases new flow calibrator for air quality samplers
- Correcting for temperature and pressure effects on sensors
- Signal-to-noise ratio improvements
- Improved accuracy specifications on Alicat mass flow instruments
- 7v firmware update
- Alicat adds industrial automation protocols to vacuum flow control instruments
- Customized electronic pressure controllers for OEM use from Alicat
- Accurate mass flow control improves vacuum coating results
- Flow measurement and control for high pressure flow systems
- New mass flow controller flows up to 5,000 SLPM
- BASIS™ OEM mass flow controllers now control to 20 SLPM
- New LabVIEW drivers for Alicat instruments
- 6v firmware update
- Whisper mass flow instruments for low pressure applications
- New dual-valve mass flow controller
- Category: The Alicat Blog
- The hydrogen future
- SO2 in wine manufacturing
- Environmental impact of lab-grown diamonds
- Indoor hydroponic farming
- Slot-die coating
- Four methods to control pH in bioreactors
- Advantages and use cases for shaker, rocker, and stirred tank bioreactors
- Automating the ancient art of glass blowing
- PVD coatings: Thermal evaporation and sputtering deposition
- Instrumentation tips and tricks for fuel cell testing
- Are flow controllers part of bioreactor cleaning procedures?
- Alternating tangential flow filtration
- Waste to hydrogen with plasma gasification
- What is carbon capture and storage?
- Hydrogen drones – renewable powered UAVs
- The advantages of hybrid equipment in biologics manufacturing
- Solar hydrogen: Renewable powered electrolysis
- Synthetic biology
- Photoelectrocatalytic hydrogen production
- Hybrid facilities provide necessary flexibility to biologics manufacturing
- Thin film deposition techniques
- The northern Germany hydrogen economy
- What is bioplastic?
- Portables for flow meter calibration in industrial hygiene
- Maritime hydrogen power and transport
- The hydrogen Scotland strategy – green scotch
- Using a Coriolis in pharma processing
- Coriolis flow meters in semiconductor processes
- Portable flow meters to leak test bioreactors
- Portable gas flow meters for cleanroom metrology
- UK hydrogen technology development
- Algae bioreactors and photobioreactors
- Mass flow instruments in fragrance dosing
- Lab-grown meat and cultured meat
- Microreactors in bioprocessing
- Improving hydrogen fuel cell leak detection
- Mass flow for dosing food and beverages
- Advantages of single-use bioreactors and fermenters over traditional bioprocessing
- DeltaV lets manufacturers meet the goals of PAT and Pharma 4.0
- Challenges of scaling hydrogen infrastructure
- Electrolysis and fuel cells
- Hydrogen in a carbon neutral future
- What is the hydrogen economy?
- Battery vs hydrogen fuel cell vehicles
- Introduction to hydrogen fuel cells
- 13 tools to use when planning for pharma scale-up
- Should I switch to single-use bioreactors?
- Comparing the environmental impacts of single-use bioreactors vs. stainless steel
- Using fewer flow controllers for increased redundancy in bioreactor systems
- Monitor outgassed materials in bioreactor headspace
- Leak checking SUBs by the manufacturer and at point-of-use
- Five tools to optimize bioreactor production and shorten vaccine development timelines
- Reducing bioreactor footprint
- Control systems for benchtop bioreactors
- Efficient bioreactor scale-up speeds up drug development
- Advantages of single-use plastic bioreactors in small-scale bioprocessing
- Alicat announces CODA Coriolis mass flow meters and controllers
- Producing lab-grown diamonds with chemical vapor deposition
- Improving vacuum control for sputter coating
- Mass flow control for bioreactors
- Aerobic and anaerobic wastewater treatment
- Customer needs translate to improved products
- Meet an Alicat: In the lab with Foose
- Alicat mass flow controllers save customers money without sacrificing accuracy, reliability, or functionality
Knowledge Base
- Raising the Equilibar: Pairing an Alicat with a dome-loaded pressure regulator
- Optimizing atomic layer deposition using flow and pressure control
- Aerating everything using mass flow instrumentation
- Growing CVD diamonds with flow and pressure regulation
- Regulating cold plasma flow and pressure
- Regulating SO2 levels in winemaking processes
- Indoor hydroponic farming optimization with CO2 mass flow control
- Slot-die coating optimization using CODA Coriolis mass flow controllers
- Request CAD models and mechanical drawings
- Characterization of Coriolis measurement technology
- Penn Electronic Design Shop uses mass flow control to optimize olfactometer for short-term memory retention research
- Overcoming pump limitations with a Coriolis meter-pump system
- Active flow control with pressure control and a Coriolis mass flow meter
- Thin film deposition research
- Chemical vapor deposition research
- Bioreactor and fermentation research
- Carbon capture research
- Atmospheric chemistry research
- Engine combustion and performance research
- Calibration and metrology research
- Aerospace and defense research
- Battery development research
- Environmental and air monitoring research
- Native Microbials makes livestock lives better, more productive, and more sustainable
- Frost Methane mitigates methane gas emissions from Arctic Circle permafrost
- Drexel University characterizes ozone production using mass flow control
- Nel Hydrogen switches to mass flow meters for more accurate flow verification on high-tech PEM electrolysers
- UPB tests hydrogen-diesel engine efficiency using mass flow meters
- Addressing scaling challenges of bioreactor sparging using mass flow control
- Inflating single-use bioreactor bags using dual-valve pressure controllers
- High accuracy, low-flow color dosing with Coriolis mass flow meters
- Framergy purifies methane from natural gas streams using MOFs and Coriolis mass flow meters
- Alicat mass flow controllers resist back pressure contamination
- Flowing non-Newtonian fluids
- Accurate and simplified pressure decay leak testing for single-use bioprocessing
- Hydrogen fuel cell regulation and testing solutions
- Optimizing supercritical CO2 solid-liquid extraction with Coriolis mass flow
- More efficient flow control for bioreactors and bioprocess systems
- Measuring vent and greenhouse gas emissions
- Inchfab uses mass flow and pressure control in nanoscale fabrication systems
- Calibrating and verifying ventilators used to treat COVID-19 patients
- KimPro Energy monitors oil and gas methane emissions using portable mass flow meters
- Maintaining cryogenic temperatures with pressure control
- Biosphere 2 studies the impacts of drought on tropical rainforests using flow measurement
- Overcoming the challenges of high-speed aerodynamic tests using pressure control
- Aerating chocolate using mass flow control
- Controlling carbon dioxide sparging in brewing applications
- Calibrating in-field PM air samplers with the FP-25
- Developing novel pollution sensing technologies using precise mass flow control
- High flow control for gasification
- Lowering cost and increasing speed of biologics production
- Veloce echelle spectrograph utilizes closed-volume pressure control
- Persedo assures quality of distilled spirits using mass flow control
- ILS Automation integrates mass flow control with industrial communication protocols into bioreactors
- Accuracy and repeatability in valve leak test stands are key to space exploration
- Increasing vacuum deposition speed and stability with upstream pressure control
- Creating a vacuum using a dual valve pressure controller and the Venturi effect
- Automating liquid paint application using mass flow
- Mixing gases with versatile flow control
- Characterizing a filter with a pressure controller and mass flow meter
- Replacing pin gauge testing with a pressure controller and mass flow meter
- Fast, accurate leak testing using one flow controller
- Verifying and optimizing gas chromatography processes
- Precise and repeatable flow control in optical fiber manufacturing
- MDC Precision uses mass flow control for XpressStick gas delivery module
- VICI makes air pollution analyzer calibrators using OEM mass flow controllers for gas mixing
- Upgrading reactive sputtering systems with closed loop flow control
- Calibrating a variable area flow meter with an Alicat
- LD Integrated Technologies characterizes medical device flows using LabVIEW pressure control
- Duralar innovates physical vapor deposition processes using mass flow control
- Dr. Elemans et al. replicate bird song using pressure in a closed system
- Measuring flow at subatmospheric pressures
- Calibrating flow systems with changing gas mixtures
- Catagen tests automotive catalysts using mass flow control
- Cambridge CMOS Sensors characterizes and calibrates gas sensors using mass flow control
- H2scan improves system stability for accurate hydrogen analysis using absolute pressure control
- Johnson Matthey optimizes automotive catalyst manufacturing using pressure control
- Validating, verifying, and calibrating flows
- Graftel verifies sensor operation in nuclear leak monitoring equipment
- FAST achieves high-altitude ballooning goals using portable mass flow meters
Using-Your-Alicat
- Troubleshooting an Alicat device
- Connecting a CODA to FlowVision 2.0™ tutorial
- FlowVision 2.0 FAQ
- Firmware updates FAQ
- CSA/ATEX certification for hazardous areas FAQ
- Alarm function (ALE command) tutorial
- FP-25 calibrator setup instructions
- Measurement/control range and turndown ratio FAQ
- Internal barometer (-IB sensor) FAQ
- IP address configuration tutorial
- Control deadband tutorial
- Display configuration tutorial
- Control loop variable tutorial: Changing between mass flow, volumetric flow, or pressure control
- Setpoints/setpoint limits tutorial
- Totalizer tutorial
- Gas Select™ and Composer™ tutorial
- Zero band (deadband) tutorial
- Changing engineering units tutorial
- Flow and pressure averaging tutorial
- Inverse pressure control tutorial: Switching from forward to back pressure control
- Taring/auto-taring tutorial
- Download and edit register settings and factory restore an Alicat tutorial
- Unit ID/baud rate tutorial
- Setpoint ramping tutorial
- Bleeding your liquid device tutorial
- Display variable tutorial: Changing from mass flow to volumetric flow
- Modbus FAQ
- EtherCAT FAQ
- Profibus FAQ
- Batch function tutorial
- FlowVision SC™ FAQ
- Python and command prompt communication instructions
- Export codes for international orders
- Serial communication tutorial
- Ordering and purchasing FAQ
- STP/NTP tutorial
- Annual recalibration FAQ
- Correcting flow data after choosing the wrong gas in Gas Select™
- Configuring PuTTY for use with Alicat instruments
- Service return checklist
- PID tuning (PD/PDF/PD2I) tutorial
- DeviceNet FAQ
- EtherNet/IP FAQ
- Liquid in a gas flow instrument FAQ
- Cleaning an Alicat tutorial
- Valve position swap for a Rolamite or any small valve tutorial
- Electrically connecting to an Alicat device tutorial
- Pneumatically connecting to and leak checking an Alicat device tutorial
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Choosing an Instrument
- Valve sizing and tuning
- Features of Alicat instruments
- IP ratings and conformal coatings
- How we use your application info to build a custom device
- What type of fluid can be flowed through an Alicat flow instrument?
- What is mass flow?
- What is the difference between mass flow and volumetric flow?
- Operating principle: Laminar differential pressure mass flow technology
- Clamp-on flow meters and Alicat portable flow meters
- Choosing a portable flow meter
- Flow instruments for low-flow liquid applications
- Choosing a mass flow instrument for bioprocessing applications
- Rotameters vs Alicat flow meters for bioprocessing
- When to use a CODA Coriolis mass flow instrument
- Ten parameters for choosing flow instruments
- Operating principle: Coriolis mass flow technology
- Alicat model guide for all flow and pressure instruments
- Choosing a pressure controller
- How tough is an Alicat?
- Communication options for Alicat instruments
- Calibration and accuracy specifications for Alicat devices
- Digital flow totalizers and analog alarms
- Integrated potentiometer control (IPC)
- Process connections
- Digital displays
- CSA/ATEX certifications for hazardous environments
- Communication Protocols
- Types of gas flow instruments
- What is laminar flow?
- Controlling pressure with an Alicat mass flow controller
- RS-232 communication with an Alicat
- High-accuracy multi-gas calibrations using Gas Select™ feature
- Absolute vs gauge pressure instruments
- Alicat mass flow control response specifications
- What is pressure drop?
Knowledge Base 5
- Additional Resources
- About KB Add-ons
- Category Hierarchy and Tabs Layout
- Additional Information
- Your Next Steps
- Quick Start Guide
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Models
- MCS–Series: Anti-Corrosive Gas Mass Flow Controllers
- MS–Series: Anti-Corrosive Mass Flow Meters
- IVC-Series: Integrated Vacuum Controllers
- Bio-Series: Mass Flow Meters for Bioreactors and Fermenters
- BIO-Series: Mass Flow Controllers for Bioreactors & Fermenters
- Industrial carrying cases
- EPCD–Series: Dual Valve OEM Electronic Pressure Controllers
- LB–Series: Portable Liquid Flow Meters
- CODA KMO–Series: Standard Coriolis Mass Flow Meters
- CODA KCO–Series: Standard Coriolis Mass Flow Controllers
- CODA KM–Series: High Accuracy Coriolis Mass Flow Meters
- L-Series: Liquid Flow Meters
- CODA KC–Series: High Accuracy Coriolis Mass Flow Controllers
- LC–Series: Liquid Flow Controllers
- MC–Series: Gas Mass Flow Controllers
- Gas Select Composer™ Gas Mix Calibration Firmware
- BASIS™ BC–Series: OEM Gas Mass Flow Controllers
- Whisper™ MCW–Series: Low Pressure Drop Gas Mass Flow Controllers
- MCQ–Series: High Pressure Gas Mass Flow Controllers
- FP-25 Calibrator Kit for Air Quality Monitoring
- PCU–Series: Gas Flow Portable Calibration Unit
- MBQ–Series: Portable High Pressure Mass Flow Meters
- Whisper™ MWB–Series: Portable Low Pressure Drop Mass Flow Meters
- MBS–Series: Portable Anti-Corrosive Mass Flow Meters
- MB–Series: Portable Mass Flow Meters
- MQ–Series: High Pressure Mass Flow Meters
- Whisper™ MW–Series: Low Pressure Drop Mass Flow Meters
- M–Series: Mass Flow Meters
- Whisper™ MCDW–Series: Low Pressure Drop Bidirectional Mass Flow Controllers
- MCDS–Series: Anti-Corrosive Bidirectional Gas Mass Flow Controllers
- MCD–Series: Bidirectional Gas Mass Flow Controllers
- MCVS–Series: Anti-Corrosive Vacuum Gas Mass Flow Controllers
- MCES-Series: Anti-Corrosive SEMI Standard Gas Mass Flow Controllers
- MCE–Series: SEMI Standard Gas Mass Flow Controllers
- MCV–Series: Vacuum Gas Mass Flow Controllers
- PCD–Series: Dual Valve Differential Pressure Controllers
- PCDS–Series: Anti-Corrosive Dual Valve Differential Pressure Controllers
- PC–Series: Differential Pressure Controllers
- PB–Series: Portable Absolute and Gauge Pressure Transducers
- PS–Series: Anti-Corrosive Absolute and Gauge Pressure Transducers
- P–Series: Absolute and Gauge Pressure Transducers
- PS–Series: Anti-Corrosive Differential Pressure Transducers
- P–Series: Differential Pressure Transducers
- PCS–Series: Anti-Corrosive Differential Pressure Controllers
- PB–Series: Portable Differential Pressure Transducers
- PCS–Series: Anti-Corrosive Absolute and Gauge Pressure Controllers
- PC–Series: Absolute and Gauge Pressure Controllers
- EPC–Series: OEM Electronic Pressure Controllers
- PCD–Series: Dual Valve Absolute and Gauge Pressure Controllers
- PCDS–Series: Anti-Corrosive Dual Valve Absolute and Gauge Pressure Controllers
- PCD3–Series: Dual Valve Absolute and Gauge Pressure Controllers with Remote Sensing
- PC3S–Series: Anti-Corrosive Absolute and Gauge Pressure Controllers with Remote Sensing
- PC3–Series: Absolute and Gauge Pressure Controllers with Remote Sensing
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- Zamtsu Corporacion S.R.L.
- Instrumatics
- Inacom Instruments
- INyMET Instrumentacion, SA de CV
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- Carl Stuart Ltd
- Alicat India Office
- Power Men Company
- Alicat India Office
- Hositrad Vacuum Technology – Deutschland
- OMICRON Technologies SAS
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- SciTech sro
- SCM Metrología y Laboratorios S.A.
- Organizacion Monitoreo Ambiental LTDA (Orgambiental)
- SETEC Ltda.
- Muis Controls Ltd.
- Alpha Controls & Instrumentation
- Tecnovip
- Duff & Macintosh Pty. Ltd.
- Nikron Automacion
- System C Instrumentation
- Erie Tech Group
- TrigasFI GmbH — Factory Authorized Calibration Center
- TrigasDM GmbH — Sales Center
- TrigasDM GmbH — Factory Authorized Calibration Center
- TrigasDM GmbH — Sales and Factory Authorized Calibration Center
- King Gage Engineering
- Universal Vacuum Technology
- JF Hurlbut Company
- NPB Technology Group, Inc
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