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- Software quality
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Need a portable type flow meter
measuring or detecting sugar level
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very interesting discussion on how to measure brix. but what everybody uses is a conductivity meter...
By Sushant Chanana on 28 June, 2009 - 11:16 pm -
Hello Issac,
I appreciate your low cost solution. But here you missed one of the MAJOR CRITERIA...
By Issac on 28 June, 2009 - 10:09 am -
I agree, Bruce.
I'm guy who pays the big bucks for an on-line analyzer because as Mr. Boyes...
By Bruce Durdle on 27 June, 2009 - 4:55 pm -
But don't forget that a grab sample is an instantaneous sample of a small volume of fluid - if not...
By Issac on 27 June, 2009 - 10:51 am -
Go get a bench top lab refractometer which is highly accurate and much lower cost than the...
By sushant chanana on 25 June, 2009 - 10:55 pm -
Hi,
If i compare K-patents brix analyzer which costs approx 14 K USD & microwave based brix...
By wboyes on 25 June, 2009 - 12:06 pm -
If the price is too high, you don't need to make the measurement. If you DO need to make the...
what we do here in Venezuela is measure the conductivity of the solution... if it is too high then...
By sushant chanana on 24 June, 2009 - 10:58 pm -
Prices are too high!!!
Any other economical & accurate solution??
microwave analyzers do come...
By Issac on 24 June, 2009 - 10:49 am -
Sugar concentration is also known as Brix.
K-Patents is great for on-line measurement of...
By Piotr Kowalski on 23 June, 2009 - 7:16 am -
Hi,
check K-Patents, they offer inline refractometers.
Regards
Piotr Kowalski...
reading a weight from a Mettler Toledo Scale via RS232
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By Lee Munyaradzi on 29 June, 2009 - 2:03 am -
Hi,
> I understand that you want to capture Mettler Toledo RS232 port weight data in a...
Looking for a solution to measure/infer the calorific value of municipal waste
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By Phil Corso on 26 June, 2009 - 5:39 pm -
Andrey,
I suggest you visit the USA Government EPA website.
Regards, Phil Corso (cepsicon [at]...
By Issac on 26 June, 2009 - 1:57 pm -
Gas Calorimeters and Heating Value transmitters
...
Looking for an immeresion detector that detects whether a body is above or below the water surface
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By Curt Wuollet on 25 June, 2009 - 4:15 pm -
That sounds like a good fit for optical diffraction. It could be completely enclosed and sealed....
By wboyes on 25 June, 2009 - 12:12 pm -
Hmmm. Any simple sensor will make a circuit based on the residual water on the skin of the swimmer....
By Gerald Beaudoin on 25 June, 2009 - 9:28 am -
Another type of immersion detector is the kind that detects if something has been immersed into a...
By Controlman2 on 25 June, 2009 - 9:20 am -
Thank You Bill For your reply,
The thing I need specifically is a detector or a sensor, which to...
By body do you mean a live person, a live person who will no longer be with us as a result of the...
By Curt Wuollet on 22 June, 2009 - 2:25 pm -
Some, but by no means all. Moisture alarm gives good hits also.
Regards
cww
...
You should search on "Point Level sensors". Point Level sensors are commonly used as high...
By wboyes on 22 June, 2009 - 9:31 am -
Do you want to know if something is immersed, or if something has been immersed but is not now?...
By Controlman2 on 22 June, 2009 - 6:18 am -
Thank you for your reply, but I googled the moisture sensor and all the results concern the soil...
By Curt Wuollet on 21 June, 2009 - 2:20 pm -
There are many and they work on several principles. Conduction, capacitance, refraction, etc. They...
Looking for thesis topics
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By wboyes on 24 June, 2009 - 10:52 am -
Contact Duncan Schleiss, Greg McMillan, and Terry Blevins at Emerson Process Management in Austin;...
how to measure a mixed ngl stream that has 1 or more components at a boiling point?
arc furnace - control loop and arcing
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There's this really wonderful thing available on the same computer that you wrote this question on...
what's the difference?
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I may have got the wrong end of these last few posts. Apologies if thats the case.
There's a few...
By Girish on 23 June, 2009 - 5:57 am -
For SIL2 applications which one to shoose? FMEDA / Exida certificate or TUV? Why?
Thanks
Girish...
By Samir on 23 June, 2009 - 5:51 am -
Thanks.
Exida is not a notified party.
1) Still can we use FMEDA certified instruments...
By wboyes on 22 June, 2009 - 9:29 am -
There doesn't appear to be. Exida appears to be a thorough, professional, knowledgeable agency for...
By Anonymous on 21 June, 2009 - 6:22 am -
There are vendors who provide SIL certification by FMEDA based on EXIDA report. Most of the other...
diff transducer (+) leg is connected to furnace pressure & (-) leg opn to atmostphere
Smart pressure transmitter with HART protocol
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By Srini on 23 June, 2009 - 8:03 am -
Hi,
HART PT & TTs are available with most of the transmitter manufacturer like Emerson,...
By Jonas Berge on 23 June, 2009 - 2:23 am -
I would say that the HART terminals ARE all the same. HART is a standard protocol
However, the...
Wireless Pressure Transducer
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Hi,
Emerson has the wireless PT that can communicate to a PC. The wireless PT is battered...
Keller America offers a Modbus/RTU Slave (RS-485) pressure transducer that can be mated with a...
need guidelines regarding simulation (simulink model) of bldc motor
Large Bore Teflon Electrodeless Conductivity Probe
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By Roy Matson on 22 June, 2009 - 10:22 am -
Daniel,
The CLS50 only has a 1/2" hole, I was hoping for one of the 2" probes in...
By Daniel on 20 June, 2009 - 6:25 pm -
Hi,
check the model CLS50 in www.endress.com...
Need pure oxygen capsule and analyzer of oxygen and hydrogen
Sensor suitable to be used in the gas leakage detector
How to select the temp. sensor. Is there any selection procedure?
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Go to Omega.com and they will send you "FREE" all the information you can use in Hard...
from the Death by Dead weights department...
Determination of Calibration Intervals for Pressure CalibratorsInternational standard which can help in determining the calibration intervals
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