Grease / Waste / water flowmeter?
Grease / Waste / water flowmeter?
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A tough flow / totalizer application where waste water and grease is collected from restaurants and food processing. The flow is made up of grease trap waste with water at 3 to 5%, with food bits, sludge and grease up to 35% solids. It's the solids content that is the most critical.
All suggestion gladly received!
All suggestion gladly received!





RE: Grease / Waste / water flowmeter?
Split tube variety would plug up and lumpd cause zero drift.
Roy
RE: Grease / Waste / water flowmeter?
What are you trying to measure, or use the measurement for? That may affect the flowmeter selection. Although a single tube mass flow meter is probably best for slurry application.
Mark Hutton
RE: Grease / Waste / water flowmeter?
RE: Grease / Waste / water flowmeter?
RE: Grease / Waste / water flowmeter?
Returning to my original question, what are you doing with the measurements? If you only want to measure the total mass entering the plant then a mass flow meter is appropriate. If you need to know what the mass flow into the plant consists of (percent fat etc) then the mess flow meter is not suitable. So please advise what you need the measurement for and then we can advise the best solution.
Mark Hutton
RE: Grease / Waste / water flowmeter?
If the food bits are crushable without too much force, a positve displacement flowmeter works even better when there are hi-viscosity ladings. Nutating disc, Rotary piston, Oval Gear are all techniques. But all this is back to HEC's question: Whad do you want to learn from the flow?