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Choosing your Alicat
- Absolute vs gauge: choosing the right pressure control
- Alicat model guide
- How to optimize flow systems
- Is a Coriolis mass flow meter right for you?
- Mass flow for bioreactors: Buyer's Guide
- Rotameters vs. Alicats for bioprocessing
- RS485 vs RS232: which is right for you?
- Selection guide for flow
- Selection guide for pressure
- Ten parameters for choosing flowmeters
- Types of gas flow meters
- Types of pressure controllers
- Why turndown ratio matters
How it works
FAQs
Tutorials
- How to adjust zero band (AKA deadband)
- How to bleed your liquid controller
- How to change a setpoint and setpoint limits
- How to change an IP address configuration
- How to change engineering units
- How to change flow and pressure averaging
- How to change selection from mass flow to volumetric flow
- How to change the control loop variable
- How to change the Unit ID and Baud Rate
- How to configure an Alicat display
- How to configure PuTTY
- How to issue serial commands
- How to read/edit registers or factory restore from the front panel
- How to select PID tuning terms and algorithms
- How to set control deadband
- How to switch from forward to back control
- How to tare your Alicat device
- How to use Gas Select and Composer
- How to use PD/PDF tuning
- How to use PD2I tuning
- How to use setpoint ramping
- How to use the batch function
- How to use the gas totalizer on a mass flow controller
Troubleshooting
Reference
- Alicat Limited Lifetime Warranty
- Certifications and quality
- Certifications for elastomeric components in bioprocessing
- Connector pinouts
- Engineering units
- Export codes for international orders
- Gas Select gas list
- Instrument manuals
- Part Number Decoder
- Product brochures
- Quality Policy
- Service return checklist
- Specification sheets
- Terms and Conditions of Sale
Ask Alicat videos
- Ask Alicat: How can I accurately control my mixed gas flows? (COMPOSER™)
- Ask Alicat: How can I use a mass flow controller set to a pressure control PID loop?
- Ask Alicat: How do fiber optics companies use Alicat instruments?
- Ask Alicat: How do you communicate with your Alicat?
- Ask Alicat: How do you control pressure in a closed system?
- Ask Alicat: How do you dispense fluids in batches?
- Ask Alicat: How fast is your mass flow controller?
- Ask Alicat: What does a potentiometer do?
- Ask Alicat: What is pressure drop?
- Ask Alicat: What is the fastest way to validate flow rates?
Product videos
- Video: Alicat Scientific - The fastest flow controller company in the world
- Video: Alicat weatherproof gas flow calibrator
- Video: Fast control of gas mass flow and pressure over EtherNet/IP
- Video: Gas Select COMPOSER™ - Accurate mixed gas flow measurement
- Video: How do you control mass flow in two directions?
- Video: Mass flow controllers
- Video: Mass flow controllers for OEM applications: BASIS™ by Alicat
- Video: Whisper-Series low pressure drop mass flow meters
Training videos
- How to tare your Alicat device
- How to use the gas totalizer on a mass flow controller
- Video: Alicat rolamite valve cleaning
- Video: Changing valve position on any small valve Alicat controller
- Video: Connecting and leak checking a mass flow instrument
- Video: Electrical and wiring connection tutorial for a mass flow or pressure device
- Video: Rolamite valve swap
- Video: Serial communication with a mass flow meter or flow controller
- Video: Standard temperature and pressure settings on a mass flow controller
- Video: Tuning the PD settings on your Alicat instrument
Visual specifications videos
- Ask Alicat: How fast is your mass flow controller?
- Ask Alicat: What is pressure drop?
- Video: Fast flow calibrations at low flow rates using a mass flow meter
- Video: How tough is an Alicat flow meter?
- Video: Speed of response for Alicat mass flow controllers
- Video: Turndown ratio in mass flow controllers
Flow measurement applications
- Appnote: Bioreactor outgassing
- Appnote: Calibration of flow controllers for air canister sampling
- Appnote: Even faster (and simpler) leak checking
- Appnote: External ion gauge vacuum control system
- Appnote: Faster leak checking
- Appnote: Filter characterization with differential pressure
- Appnote: Flame and burner monitoring
- Appnote: In-house check of gas chromatograph operation
- Appnote: Measuring bidirectional air flow from furnace bellows
- Appnote: Testing a tube bore for imperfections
- Appnote: Using mass flow rate to replace pin gauge testing
- Case study: Measuring flow in Biosphere 2
- How accurate are multi-gas calibrations?
- Mass flow measurement techniques
- Fast, flexible leak testing for single-use bioprocessing
Flow control applications
- Appnote: Alicat controllers in SOFC applications
- Appnote: Brewing with Alicat
- Appnote: Controlling flow to fine adjust the valves in a dual valve assembly
- Appnote: Controlling pH with CO2 injection
- Appnote: Elastomer considerations for bioreactors
- Appnote: Enabling oxygen concentration fuels glass production
- Appnote: Fuel cell membrane test
- Appnote: Lowered cost and increased speed for biologics production
- Appnote: Mass flow control for high temperature gases
- Appnote: Optimizing bioreactor production
- Appnote: Precision & repeatability in fiber optic manufacturing
- Appnote: Product sparging
- Appnote: Reliable air delivery for automated liquid paint application
- Appnote: Simple, acccurate control for enhanced preform surface polishing
- Appnote: Sputtering flow control
- Appnote: TIG (Tungsten Inert Gas) welding
- Case study: Making distilled spirits better with Persedo and Alicat instruments
- White paper: More efficient flow control for bioreactors and bioprocess systems
Pressure control applications
- Appnote: Absolute pressure control = absolute temperature control
- Appnote: Achieving more repeatable coatings with faster, higher precise pressure control
- Appnote: External ion gauge vacuum control system
- Appnote: Faster leak checking
- Appnote: Filter characterization with differential pressure
- Appnote: Fluid dispensing using pressure control
- Appnote: High efficiency helium leak check
- Appnote: High-speed aerodynamic test
- Appnote: Pressure control loop feature
- Appnote: Pressure control with sense port
- Appnote: Regulating vacuum in test system when the vacuum source varies
- Appnote: Shaping a paint stream using mass flow pressure controllers
- Appnote: Upstream pressure control increases stability and speed in vacuum deposition applications
- How to switch from forward to back control
Measurement and calibration applications
- A practical guide to flow calibration success
- Appnote: Bioreactor outgassing
- Appnote: Calibration of flow controllers for air canister sampling
- Appnote: Flame and burner monitoring
- Appnote: In-house check of gas chromatograph operation
- Appnote: Measuring bidirectional air flow from furnace bellows
- Appnote: Vent gas & green house gas emissions measurement
- Understanding Alicat calibration and accuracy specifications
- Verification, validation and calibration
- Why recalibrate your Alicat device annually?
Testing and leak checking applications
- Appnote: Alicat controllers in SOFC applications
- Appnote: Even faster (and simpler) leak checking
- Appnote: Faster leak checking
- Appnote: Filter characterization with differential pressure
- Appnote: High efficiency helium leak check
- Appnote: High-speed aerodynamic test
- Appnote: Mixed gas re-metering
- Appnote: Testing a tube bore for imperfections
Process control applications
- Appnote: Achieving more repeatable coatings with faster, higher precise pressure control
- Appnote: Alicat controllers in gas mixing systems
- Appnote: Automation of paint application pressure control system
- Appnote: Bioreactors in wastewater treatment
- Appnote: Controlling pH with CO2 injection
- Appnote: Even faster (and simpler) leak checking
- Appnote: External ion gauge vacuum control system
- Appnote: High flow control for gasification
- Appnote: Mass flow control enables chocolate aeration
- Appnote: Pressure and flow control for gas analysis
- Appnote: Product sparging
- Appnote: Reliable air delivery for automated liquid paint application
- Appnote: TIG (Tungsten Inert Gas) welding
- Appnote: Tough environments call for tougher instruments