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Case studies
- Biosphere 2 studies the impacts of drought on tropical rainforests using flow measurement
- Cambridge CMOS Sensors characterizes and calibrates gas sensors using mass flow control
- Catagen tests automotive catalysts using mass flow control
- Duralar innovates physical vapor deposition processes using mass flow control
- FAST achieves high-altitude ballooning goals using portable mass flow meters
- Framergy purifies methane from natural gas streams using MOFs and Coriolis mass flow meters
- Graftel verifies sensor operation in nuclear leak monitoring equipment
- H2scan improves system stability for accurate hydrogen analysis using absolute pressure control
- ILS Automation integrates mass flow control with industrial communications protocols into bioreactors
- Inchfab uses mass flow and pressure control in nanoscale fabrication systems
- Johnson Matthey optimizes automotive catalyst manufacturing using pressure control
- KimPro Energy monitors oil and gas methane emissions using portable mass flow meters
- LD Integrated Technologies characterizes medical device flows using LabVIEW pressure control
- MDC Precision uses mass flow control for XpressStick gas delivery module
- Persedo assures quality of distilled spirits using mass flow control
- Veloce echelle spectrograph utilizes closed-volume pressure control
- VICI makes air pollution analyzer calibrators using OEM mass flow controllers for gas mixing
Research studies
Flow measurement
- Aerobic and anaerobic wastewater treatment
- Characterizing a filter with differential pressure
- External ion gauge vacuum control system
- Fast, flexible leak testing for single-use bioprocessing
- Flame and burner monitoring
- Flow meters for calibrating air canister sampling flow controllers
- Improving color dosing for liquid detergents using Coriolis mass flow meters
- In-house check of gas chromatograph operation using a portable flow meter
- Measuring bidirectional air flow from furnace bellows
- Measuring bioreactor outgassing
- Mixed gas re-metering
- Optimizing supercritical CO2 solid-liquid extraction with Coriolis mass flow
- Using mass flow rate to replace pin gauge testing
Calibration, validation, & verification
- Calibration, validation, and verification with mass flow meters
- Flame and burner monitoring
- Flow meters for calibrating air canister sampling flow controllers
- In-house check of gas chromatograph operation using a portable flow meter
- Measuring bidirectional air flow from furnace bellows
- Measuring bioreactor outgassing
- Measuring vent & greenhouse gas emissions using flow meters
Flow control
- Addressing scaling challenges of bioreactor sparging using mass flow control
- Aerating chocolate using mass flow control
- Aerobic and anaerobic wastewater treatment
- Alicat controllers in gas mixing systems
- Brewing with Alicat: Controlling carbon dioxide sparging
- Controlling gas flows for sputtering
- Controlling pH with carbon dioxide sparging
- Fine adjusting the valves in a dual valve assembly using flow control
- Glass lathe burner control for enhanced preform surface polishing
- High flow control for gasification
- Mass flow control for high temperature gases
- Mass flow control in TIG (tungsten inert gas) welding
- Mass flow controllers in SOFC applications
- Mixed gas re-metering
- Optimizing bioreactor production with mass flow control
- Optimizing supercritical CO2 solid-liquid extraction with Coriolis mass flow
- Precise and repeatable flow control in optical fiber manufacturing
- Pressure and flow control for gas analysis
- Pressure control system for automated paint application
- Product sparging with mass flow controllers
- Reliable air flow and pressure control for automated liquid paint application
- Testing fuel cell membranes with pressure control and flow measurement
- Using mass flow control to lower cost and increase speed of biologics production
- Using mass flow in oxygen concentrators for glass production
Pressure control
- Absolute pressure control equates to absolute temperature control for cryogens
- Achieving more repeatable vacuum coatings with faster, higher precision pressure control
- Characterizing a filter with differential pressure
- Creating a vacuum using a dual valve pressure controller and the Venturi effect
- External ion gauge vacuum control system
- Fluid dispensing using pressure control
- High efficiency helium leak check using pressure control
- Increasing vacuum deposition speed and stability with upstream pressure control
- Inflating single-use bioreactor bags using dual-valve pressure controllers
- Overcoming the challenges of high-speed aerodynamic tests using pressure control
- Pressure and flow control for gas analysis
- Pressure control loop feature
- Pressure control with sense port
- Regulating vacuum in test system when the vacuum source varies
Leak checking
Alicat features & capabilities
- Biocompatible materials in bioreactor gas flow controllers
- Controlling gas mass flow and pressure over EtherNet/IP
- Controlling mixed gas flows with COMPOSER™
- Dispensing fluids in batches
- How accurate are multi-gas calibrations?
- How do you communicate with your Alicat?
- How fast is an Alicat?
- How tough is an Alicat?
- PID tuning (valve tuning)
- What does a potentiometer do?
How an Alicat works
- Operating principle: Coriolis mass flow technology
- Operating principle: Laminar differential pressure mass flow technology
- What is laminar flow?
- What is mass flow?
- What is pressure drop?
- What is the difference between mass flow and volumetric flow?
- What type of fluid can I flow through my flow instrument?
Guides: Pressure instruments
Guides: Flow instruments
- All about Coriolis: A collection of information & resources
- Choosing a portable flow meter
- Device selection guide: Mass flow and pressure
- FP-25 for in-field PM air sampler calibration
- Mass flow controllers for bioprocessing applications
- Mass flow controllers for OEM applications
- Measuring flow at subatmospheric pressures
- When to use a Coriolis meter
Guides: Communications
Tech comparisons
White papers
FAQs
- 7v firmware FAQ
- 8v firmware FAQ
- 9v firmware FAQ
- Backlit monochrome displays FAQ
- Barometer (-IB sensor) FAQ
- Calibration and accuracy specifications FAQ
- Calibration types FAQ
- DeviceNet FAQ
- EtherCAT FAQ
- EtherNet/IP FAQ
- Measurement/control range and turndown ratio FAQ
- MODBUS FAQ
- Ordering and purchasing FAQ
- PROFIBUS FAQ
- Recalibration FAQ
Tutorials
- Adjusting zero band (AKA deadband)
- Alicat Python and command prompt communication
- Bleeding your liquid controller
- Changing engineering units
- Changing flow and pressure averaging
- Changing IP address configuration
- Changing selection from mass flow to volumetric flow
- Changing setpoint and setpoint limits
- Changing the control loop variable
- Changing the Unit ID and baud rate
- Changing valve position on any small valve Alicat controller
- Cleaning Alicat mass flow instruments
- Configuring an Alicat display
- Configuring PuTTY
- Connecting and leak checking a mass flow instrument
- Electrical and wiring connection tutorial for a mass flow or pressure device
- Gas Select and Composer
- How can I use a mass flow controller set to a pressure control PID loop?
- Issuing serial commands
- PD/PDF tuning
- PD2I tuning
- PID tuning terms and algorithms
- Rolamite valve cleaning
- Rolamite valve swap
- Serial communication with a mass flow meter or flow controller
- Setting control deadband
- Setting up your FP-25 calibrator
- Standard temperature and pressure settings on a mass flow controller
- Switching from forward to back control
- Taring your Alicat device
- Using setpoint ramping
- Using the batch function
- Using the front panel to edit or view register values or factory restore
- Using the gas totalizer on a mass flow controller
Troubleshooting
- Correcting flow data after choosing the wrong gas in Gas Select
- FlowVision SC troubleshooting
- Getting device registers
- Resolving error codes
- Troubleshooting flow readings
- Troubleshooting power and communications
- Troubleshooting vs. repairing an Alicat device
- Variable area flow meter readings not matching Alicat readings
- What to do when liquid gets into a gas flow controller