Greg Dake
Member
Greetings everyone,
We have an upcoming application where we need to measure volumetric flow of corn syrup. This is our first time we've had to pump corn syrup. We will be pumping it out of a storage silo and delivering it to various batching areas.
For those with experience, which flow meter technologies have you had the best luck with? My collegues are concentrating on coriolis flow meter technologies. The coriolis meters are very expensive, but possible if that is the route we need to go. Do any of the other flow meter technologies work well with corn syrup?
Also, the syrup is going to be pumped with a positive displacement pump. I could put an encoder on the pump to know how many revolutions the pump has turned, therefore being able to know the volume delivered. This has a few bad points, if there is any tunneling with the syrup we wouldn't always have a guaranteed volume per pump revolution. Has anyone done this with a positive displacement pump to get an accurate volume pumped? This method just seems to have too many variables.
TIA,
Greg
We have an upcoming application where we need to measure volumetric flow of corn syrup. This is our first time we've had to pump corn syrup. We will be pumping it out of a storage silo and delivering it to various batching areas.
For those with experience, which flow meter technologies have you had the best luck with? My collegues are concentrating on coriolis flow meter technologies. The coriolis meters are very expensive, but possible if that is the route we need to go. Do any of the other flow meter technologies work well with corn syrup?
Also, the syrup is going to be pumped with a positive displacement pump. I could put an encoder on the pump to know how many revolutions the pump has turned, therefore being able to know the volume delivered. This has a few bad points, if there is any tunneling with the syrup we wouldn't always have a guaranteed volume per pump revolution. Has anyone done this with a positive displacement pump to get an accurate volume pumped? This method just seems to have too many variables.
TIA,
Greg