What is air flow meter?
An Air Flow Meter is the flow meter that measures industrial air velocity. Most of the time, people talk about air flow meters means compressed air flow meters. We are discussing here all air flow meters, including compressed air flow meters.
Compressed Air Flow Meter, is the digital flow meter work for the air compressor. Air consumption is important info for industrial inline gas flow pipes. According to the measurement conditions, a compressed air flow meter could be of different types. Thermal mass flow meters, Ultrasonic flow meters, vortex flow meters, Turbine flow meters. And the differential pressure flow meters (Orifice plate ) are also suitable for compressed air. With the Pressure and Temperature compensation. Sino-Inst’s compressed air flow meters are more affordable and complete.
There are many types of instruments that can be used to measure air. However, there are not many types of airflow actually used in the field according to their principles. The most important ones are rotameter, throttling differential pressure flowmeter, vortex flowmeter, gas turbine flowmeter, and averaging velocity tube flowmeter.
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Inline air flow meter cfm
CFM is a common imperial flow unit, cubic feet per minute.
For a certain volume of air flow passing in a unit time, m3/h air volume unit is generally used in China. Other countries also use the British air volume unit cfm (cubic foot per minute). That is ft3/min cubic feet/minute,
1CFM=28.316846592 L/MIN=0.028316847 m3/min
CFM traffic is divided into SCFM and ACFM.
Inline air flow meter scfm
SCFM English standard cubic foot per minute means standard cubic foot per minute, British flow unit. Both ACFM & SCFM are units of measurement for English flow
ACFM=actual flow rate ft^3/min
SCFM=standard flow rate ft^3/min
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1 cubic meter = 35.314724827664 cubic feet
1Nm^3/min=35.315 SCFM
1 liter/minute=0.03531SCFM
1 liter=0.03531SCFM
Inline air flow meter lpm
LPM is liter/minute.
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Air flow meter price
The price of AIR flow meters are decided by flollowing factors:
- Pipe diameter;
- Flow range;
- Measured medium;
- Whether it is corrosive;
- Whether explosion protection is required;
- Whether it needs local display;
- Connection method;
- Measure pressure;
- Measure temperature;
- Signal output;
- Accuracy requirements;
- Material requirements;
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Important factors when selecting flow metering devices are
- accuracy
- cost
- legal constraints
- flow rate range
- head loss
- operating requirements
- maintenance
- lifetime
These factors are more or less related to each other. Example – the cost of flow meters increases with accuracy and lifetime quality.
FAQ
What is an air flow meter called?
An airflow meter is a device that converts the inhaled airflow into electrical signals. Airflow meter is also often called gas flow meter, air mass flow meter, compressed air flow meter, etc.
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Sino-Instrument offers over 50 flow meter for flow measurement.
About 50% of these are differential pressure flow meters, 40% are the liquid flow sensor, and 20% are Ultrasonic Level Transmitter and mass flow meter.
A wide variety of flow meters options are available to you, such as free samples, paid samples.
Sino-Instrument is a globally recognized supplier and manufacturer of flow measurement instrumentation, located in China.
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