Fuji Ultrasonic Flowmeter – Principles And Features

So what is a flow meter to begin with? A flowmeter is a device that measures the rate of viscosity (movement or flow) of liquids or gases. There are many types of flow meters but the ultrasonic variety are generally very compact and easy to use. They have many applications in theoretic science through to applied industrial processing. Ultimately they tell a person how much of a particular substance is flowing at a particular moment. The Fuji ultrasonic flowmeter is one of the more popular types of ultrasonic flow meter.

Getting a bit Batty

To explain how a Fuji ultrasonic flowmeter works you could consider how a bat navigates or flies in pitch darkness. Bats use sonar to navigate their way around and avoid even the smallest of obstacles. They even monitor movement of other animals to hunt or avoid them. Indeed, they use sound in order to get an accurate picture of the world around them.

Sonar is a series of clicks pitched so high that human ears can't hear them. A click is essentially a sound wave. The bat emits the clicks that bounce off an object and the click returns to the Bat. The change in the frequency of the sound wave is interpreted by the Bat and a picture of the object around it is built up.

All of this is processed in a bat's head a lot faster than in a Fuji ultrasonic flowmeter however this is the same principle that make the ultrasonic flowmeter work. This device also uses a series of sounds, known technically as acoustic signals. The Fuji ultrasonic flowmeter sends ultrasonic pulses (beeps) with the flow of the substance it is measuring and in the opposite direction to the flow.  Then, it measures how long it takes each pulse to travel.  That's called the transit time. The difference between the two transit times is an indication of the flow rate of the substance passing through the pipe or tube that is being measured.

Advantages

If you need a flow meter for your business then you could do worse than choose either a GE Panametrics ultrasonic flowmeter or a Fuji ultrasonic flowmeter. Both of them are small, easy to install and have a user friendly interface.

The Fuji ultrasonic flowmeter has a couple more advantages for the technically inclined.  There is an extreme lack of having to wait for all of the data to download in order for the flowmeter to work.  It's also so water tight that there is no risk of any liquid seeping in to your Fuji ultrasonic flowmeter and destroying it.

You can easily program your Fuji ultrasonic flowmeter through the front keyboard. Here, you can enter whatever personalized data that you need to add.