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DAVID W. SPITZER'S E-ZINE

TECHNICAL AND MARKETING SERVICES
FOR INSTRUMENTATION SUPPLIERS AND END-USERS

This issue sponsored by Spitzer and Boyes, LLC

February 2015

Part 2: When Do You Measure Mass Flow?

I’ve often said that if I had to be restricted to only two kinds of flowmeter ever, I would want a magnetic flowmeter and a Coriolis mass flowmeter. Thankfully, those are not the only kinds of flowmeters there are. There is a reason for this. click for more...

Part I: The Things You Don't Know

Were you ever proud of what you didn’t know? At a plant I worked at earlier in my career, the previous instrumentation engineer designed the instrumentation in one of the units. While anyone can find a few things to disagree with on any large project, my predecessor and the people in other disciplines designed the unit quite well–so well that the unit rarely exhibited operational problems. Pleased to not have problems with the unit, I was secretly proud to not know the details associated with the unit. click for more...

What's a Volumetric Flowmeter?

Positive-displacement flowmeters constantly entrap fluid and measure the actual volume of the fluid. There are many positive-displacement flowmeter geometries available to meet various application requirements. Applications can vary from ubiquitous to highly specialized. click for more...

ABOUT SPITZER AND BOYES, LLC

In addition to over 35 years of experience as an instrument user, consultant, and expert witness, David W Spitzer has written over 10 books and 250 articles about flow measurement, level measurement, instrumentation, and process control. David (with Walt Boyes) is the author of seven Consumer Guides to various industrial flow and level technologies. David teaches his flow measurement seminars in both English and Portuguese.

Spitzer and Boyes, LLC provides engineering, technical writing, training seminars, strategic marketing consulting, distribution consulting, and expert witness services worldwide, and can be contacted at +1.845.623.1830 or www.spitzerandboyes.com.