Almost every system and device used in industrial, commercial and residential settings requires some sort of safety feature, whether it is a warning label on a can of food or a hair dryer, or a linear slide that limits how a machine opens and closes to a certain extent. With pipes, a safety mechanism is necessary to ensure that if there is a back-up or some other sort of problem with the gas or Continue reading
My sister recently got married and her husband is studying to become a mechanical engineer. He’s a car lover, and has dreamed of designing faster engines and utilizing different “green” fuel sources since he was a kid. Over the last few years, as we have gotten to know each other, I have learned a vast deal about Continue reading
Pressure Transmitter Photos Courtesy of Ashcroft® Inc.
A pressure transmitter has quite a wide field of applications, from giant to miniscule instruments that come in a variety of shapes and styles. Regardless of variances though, all pressure transmitters are used to measure the pressure of air or Continue reading
Differential Pressure Photos Courtesy of Dwyer Instruments, Inc.
The main purpose of all styles of pressure transducers, including differential pressure transducers is translation. The translation that happens can be described in a human metaphor involving how the brain translates what the senses experience. This same sort of connection and Continue reading
Pressure Transducers Photo Courtesy of AMETEK® U.S. Gauge, PMT Products.
Nearly every industrial product on the market today has a variety of subcategories that have developed because of variances in style, size or material. This is due to the numerous environments most products must be adapted to suit. Pressure transducers, which are utilized in pressure sensors that must Continue reading
Just like the exclusive airport lounge and most comfortable seats on the plane are reserved for first class passengers, atmospheric pressure sensors are designed for exclusive practices. As one can tell from the name, they measure air and Continue reading
Liquid and gas are not the only two substance types that are able to flow through pipes, tubes and systems and therefore require measurement. Solids and slurries may also flow, to a certain extent and need the same sort of monitoring that liquids and Continue reading
Every system needs a safeguard to ensure that equipment is working properly and doing what it is supposed to be doing in as accurate a fashion as possible. For the pressure transducers, pressure sensors and pressure transmitters of the world, that check-up system is known as pressure calibrators. In essence, pressure calibrators do the same thing that pressure sensors do, except they Continue reading
A vacuum is not always the classic vacuum that lives in residential closets and gets taken out to suck up cat hair, dog fur and spilled cereal. Some vacuums are used in much more scientific applications, employing the same general idea as commercial vacuums but in a very different way. The phrase “perfect vacuum” refers to Continue reading