What is a Paddle wheel flow meter? Paddle wheel flow meter is a mechanical flow meter that uses an impeller as a flow sensor component. The impeller-type flow meter is a meter that measures flow according to the principle of Read More
What is a piston flow meter? A piston flow meter is a positive displacement flowmeter, which is mainly used to measure liquid flow. The piston flow meter is composed of a shell, piston mechanism, and other parts. The measured fluid Read More
What is bidirectional flow? Bidirectional flow refers to forward and directional flow. Bi-directional flow lines are not common in most process plants. The measurement of unidirectional flow is easy to understand and is applicable to all types of flow technologies. Read More
What is meant by Modbus protocol? Modbus Protocol is a serial communication protocol, which was published by Modicon company (now Schneider Electric) in 1979 for the use of programmable logic controller (PLC) communication. Modbus has become the industry standard (De Read More
Magnetic flowmeters are mainly used to measure the flow of conductive media with good fluidity. Magnetic flowmeters are divided into insertion type and pipeline type. Pipeline electromagnetic flowmeter and insertion electromagnetic flowmeter has the same requirements for installation. There are Read More
The solvent flow meter is a flow meter that can measure solvent volume or mass flow. In the industrial production process, it is very important to accurately measure the amount of solvent. Solvents are divided into organic solvents and inorganic Read More
What is a Grease Flow Meter? Grease Flow meters are meters dedicated to measuring the volume or mass flow of industrial grease fluids. The most common Grease Flow meters are elliptical gear flow meters, also called positive displacement flowmeters. There Read More
Updated Apr 9, 2026 — Reviewed by Sino-Inst Engineering Team The K-factor of a flow meter is the number of pulses the meter generates per unit volume of fluid. It is a calibration constant — determined at the factory or Read More
What is an ultrasonic flow detector? An ultrasonic flow detector is often understood as an ultrasonic flow meter or ultrasonic transducer. In fact, an Ultrasonic flow detector refers to the probe part of the ultrasonic flow meter or sensor part. Read More
What is an irrigation flow meter? The irrigation flow meter is a flow meter designed for agricultural irrigation water counting. Agriculture, horticulture, etc. require water for irrigation. And water is becoming more and more expensive. The installation of flow measurement Read More
