Eastern Instruments - Solids Mass Flow and Air Flow Measurement Equipment

There are many different ways to move solid materials through a process, ranging from belt conveyors, vibratory conveyors, and pneumatic systems, to bucket conveyors/elevators and screw conveyors.  Many of these devices are great for moving the product, but if you need to measure the mass flow rate or control the flow rate, pulsations created by some of these devices can cause major problems. Devices like bucket conveyors/elevators, rotary valves, and screw conveyors have pockets, flights, or buckets that help to collect the product and move it through the device.  These create pulses or slugs of flow, some of which can be very large and there can be seconds or even moments where there is no flow at all between slugs. Pulsating Flow through a CentriFlow Meter Most mass flow meters require that pulsations be mechanically smoothed if at all possible, because they cannot deal with the pulsations when measuring the flow and computing the totalization.  This is typically because