From water consumption metering and influent and effluent water monitoring to chemical treatment dosing and municipal network load monitoring, our flow measurement solutions offer the highest accuracy and reliability needed to manage your water treatment operations. Leading benefits include:
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Water management products are powerful tools for enhancing sustainability efforts. They support responsible water treatment and aid facilities in leveraging reclaimed resources. With the right meters and a water management system in place—like our AquaCUE® Flow Measurement Manager solution for industrial facilities or BEACON® Software as a Service (SaaS) for municipal water plants—managers can monitor their operations to improve efficiencies and address faulty or aging equipment to minimize water waste. This can be done without extending access privileges to the SCADA processes controlling water and wastewater treatment.
Through these flow measurement solutions, facility managers can monitor meters connected via cellular-enabled endpoints. If meters are equipped with dual outputs, data can be simultaneously delivered to SCADA systems for process control use, allowing a single meter to provide data to both systems. Having access to this near real-time data increases visibility and supports water management programs by providing managers and stakeholders with the proactive intelligence they need to detect leaks, manage revenue, conserve water and collect data for compliance reporting. It also empowers users to incorporate other parameters, such as water quality monitoring.
Water management tools also monitor water and wastewater usage patterns and detect irregularities, which can be due to changes in demand, equipment that needs maintenance, operational errors or tampering in a SCADA system. Because water management products are not dependent upon SCADA systems to deliver their data, they provide an added layer of monitoring to existing operations to collect and deliver data about the health of water and wastewater processes.
Accurate flow meters don’t have to come with a high price tag. To help provide our customers with a low cost of ownership, we manufacture our meters in-house. For example, we control the entire supply chain process for our ModMAG® M Electromagnetic flow meter—from design, engineering and manufacturing to testing and delivery. This eliminates OEMs completely to reduce cost and improve service for our customers for the life of the meter.
At Badger Meter, we understand that you cannot manage what you do not measure. Accuracy is of the utmost importance at every stage of the water treatment and distribution process. Whether you’re monitoring flow to adjust the delivery of coagulants and polymers or measuring final delivery at residences, consistently accurate flow measurements provide you with the insights needed to maintain an effective and efficient system. Our ModMAG® Electromagnetic meter line offers accuracies up to ±0.2% and our Dynasonics® Ultrasonic meter line offers accuracies up to ±0.5%. Both electromagnetic and ultrasonic technologies provide leading performance in water treatment and distribution applications.
Every stage of the water treatment and distribution process requires consistency and long-term reliability. Our products are designed and manufactured to meet strict requirements that provide our customers with the performance they need. Because of this attention to detail, we’re known for our product longevity and dependability, which provides you with the confidence you need to maintain your water treatment operations long-term.
One common meter choice is our Dynasonics® TFX- Ultrasonic flow meter. It features a clamp-on design and is quickly and easily installed without cutting or tapping the pipe. It also has no moving parts to wear over time, making it a long-term solution for most water treatment and distribution applications.
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Accurate measuring is a vital part of every business's manufacturing and production process. As the old saying goes, "Measure twice, cut once." The food and beverage sector is no different in that regard. Precise, accurate flow measurement is a necessity for any food and beverage producer for a variety of reasons. In this article, we will discuss the benefits and advantages of using proper flow metering for food and beverage production.
Using proper flow metering and monitoring, you can gain several benefits during the production process. Measurement, monitoring and flow rate control are vital to your business's operational efficiency. For non-Newtonian fluids such as ketchup, soap and toothpaste, their flow behaviors require an additional understanding of fluid flow and measurement. Some of the production benefits of proper flow measurement tools include accurate blending, appropriate distillation and precise data collection.
When dealing with mixture products such as liquid detergent, a precise flow rate is crucial for proper composition and coloring. Even minor degrees of difference between flow rate of chemical mixtures can drastically affect product efficacy and compromise quality cross production runs. Using the proper flow measurement tools can provide for accurate blending of products with their ideal chemical mixtures.
For beverages such as beer, spirits and soft drinks, brewing and distillation are fundamental to their creation. Prior to bottling, each beverage has a multi-stage process of incorporating ingredients such as yeast, sugar, caramel or carbonation. Using beer flow meters like turbine or electromagnetic flowmeters to monitor fluids and adjust their rates ensures that each drop receives the proper amount of brewing and distillation at just the right time. Introducing flow metering controls at various stages can help you produce more consistent beverages and ease the bottling process by controlling volume.
Knowing everything you can about your products will drastically improve both quality and efficiency. Stable fluid flow rates produce stable products. While some fluids may mix poorly at certain flow velocities, others may require it. Knowing and understanding that data helps companies design their manufacturing processes to maximize efficiency from the beginning of production through the bottling process. Using flow metering makes it possible.
Flow measurement tools are about more than efficiency and assisting with the production process. They have other applications for food and beverage manufacturers to consider when deciding on whether or not to introduce flow measurement into their production cycle. As we have previously mentioned, the consistency of your product can be handled through proper fluid flow methods. In addition to that, there are two other categories of quality control that can be greatly affected by proper flow instrument implementation: Taste and Health.
For food and beverage products such as butter, cheese, hot sauce and soda, how much of each ingredient makes its way into your final product can have a dramatic impact. Too much water can dilute your soda; not enough can leave it a thick, syrupy mess. The same goes for the amount of vinegar in your hot sauce. Flow measurement is essential to maximize output capacity while maintaining the same great product quality that your customers enjoy.
Parallel to customer satisfaction is their health and safety. Many food and beverage products require complex stages of production to increase their quality and ensure that they are fit for public consumption. For instance, factors such as temperature and flow rate are crucial components to the pasteurization process of milk. Bulk fluid movement during pasteurization has to be carefully monitored otherwise the milk might not reach the necessary temperature to ensure bacteria elimination. Beer fermentation typically has certain temperature requirements depending on the type of yeast involved which can be regulated by fluid flow management. Proper flow metering can help your products meet all food safety requirements along with the highest possible standards.
In addition to what we have already discussed, there are other advantages to using proper flow metering equipment. Chief among them is cost control. Adequate flow regulation will reduce waste and subsequently reduce manufacturing costs. Flow metering will also provide the proper amount of liquid measurement for your bottling processes, further reducing waste, equalizing volume and stabilizing unit costs across your production runs. All of the advantages of proper flow metering lead to more efficient processing while increasing quality, ensuring safety and reducing costs.