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Three Mass Flow Control Solutions for Dark Labs
Mass flow control requires precision. When poor lighting prevents you from being able to monitor your process, you cannot maintain optimal accuracy and efficiency. At Alicat, we’re with you…even in the...
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Verification, Validation or Calibration?
Alicat portable mass flow calibrator with optional backlit color display Verification, validation and calibration are different but interrelated processes that are at times conflated with each other...
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Flow Calibration with Changing Gas Mixtures
Multiple unit calibration setup, including the three-meter portable calibration unit (PCU) Flow calibration, verification and validation processes can look rather similar but in fact have differing...
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Low-Impact Whisper Flow Meters Make a Big Impression
Whispers Win Halma Product Innovation Award Alicat’s Whisper™ series of mass flow meters and controllers with low pressure drop received Halma’s Product Innovation Award last week at the Halma...
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Why Pressure Drop Matters in Subatmospheric Applications
Pressure drop is an important physical and financial consideration when working with subatmospheric and vacuum applications. Pressure drop is the loss of line pressure caused by frictional resistance...
View ArticleAchieving Responsive and Stable Valve Control with PID Tuning
Whether you are giving your new Alicat mass flow controller a setpoint for the first time or putting a trusted Alicat pressure controller into a new system, your device sometimes may need a few...
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Liquid in a gas flow controller: How bad is it, Doc?
One of the Alicat Mass Flow Controllers at a water treatment plant which solved a big failure problem. A regional water treatment plant feeds ammonia gas into their water system—in precise doses with...
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Mass Flow Control for New Physical Vapor Deposition Applications
You know one problem with anodizing and bluing? While it prevents corrosion, it can scratch off. Most anodizing doesn’t strengthen a surface much. Chrome plating has been an alternative, but chrome-6...
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Totalizers help limit greenhouse emissions
Manufacturers of electrical power systems love Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6): it’s a colorless, odorless gas which is chemically non-toxic to humans and animals, and has great usefulness in electrical...
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What’s so special about true mass?
Volumetric vs. standard volumetric vs. true mass “Measuring flow rates” of gases and other fluids means different things, depending: volumetric rate: the space the material consumes, seen as “volume...
View ArticleFlow range matters: it’s the speed limit
Knowing the correct flow range for your application will help you select the best meter or controller for your system. The flow or pressure device’s full scale should match the largest flow rate that...
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BASIS MFCs for OEMs now control to 20 SLPM
Compact, versatile and accurate BASIS mass flow controllers are ideal for original equipment manufacturing and process integration applications buying in volume. Now the product line includes ranges of...
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New LabVIEW Drivers for Alicat Instruments
Talking to your Alicat products digitally has just gotten easier. Whether you’re integrating an Alicat into a LabVIEW dashboard, or you’re using our Flow Vision software to log, control or optimize...
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How to choose meters and controllers for pressure or flow
Alicat devices are available in thousands of possible configurations to ensure that the instrument you receive is the right fit for your application. In this first of a new series of blog posts...
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Faster Flow Calibration for Gas Analyzer Audits
Alicat’s “Whisper” series portable flow meters reduce the time it takes to conduct flow calibrations and audits of gas analyzers and gas dilution calibrators used in ambient air monitoring and other...
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Mass flow measurement techniques across the spectrum
A few flow measurement principles dominate the flow technology landscape, but there’s a rich variety of ways to measure flow that might not make themselves apparent without a bit of research. Anyone...
View ArticleFlow metering and control for high pressure flow systems
There are times when a high operating pressure is needed, and now you can use an Alicat for that high pressure system. It means you can take advantage of all the Alicat benefits you love so much:...
View ArticleEven faster leak checking using pressure control loop on MFC
A pressure decay test can take a while, and waiting time is wasted time. In this video, we demonstrate Alicat’s mass flow controller simultaneously controlling the pressure in the device under test,...
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Challenges in Gas Mixing and Dilution Applications
Gas mixing is a science that can present new challenges, even if you think you’ve seen everything. Having the right equipment alleviates many problems, since the end product can suffer if the mixing...
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Why is my variable area flow meter not matching up with the Alicat?
A Rotameter is a variable area flowmeter (VAF). It provides a flow measurement by using the pressure of a flow stream to float a ball within a conically shaped tube and provides the mass flow...
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