Category: Product Insights

Product Insights: Pressure Snubber

What is a Pressure Snubber? A pressure snubber is a device used to protect pressure gauges, sensors, and transmitters. As an example, they protect from sudden pressure spikes, pulsations, or surges that could damage the equipment or make pressure readings unreliable. How do Pressure Snubbers work? They work by evening out pressure fluctuations. It typically […]

Product Insights: Immersion Heaters

What are Immersion Heaters? Immersion heaters are devices designed to heat liquids or gases within a tank, vessel, or pipe. They operate by being submerged directly into the material that they are meant to heat. To explain further, immersion heaters achieve this by inducing an electric current into the heating element. Thus, the heating element […]

Product Insights: Isolation Pads

What are Isolation Pads? Isolation pads are materials or devices used to dampen or isolate vibrations and shock from machinery, instrumentation, or sensitive equipment. Their primary purpose is to protect both the equipment and the surrounding structures from vibrations, noise, and mechanical shock that might impact performance, safety, or longevity. Most pads are used in […]

What Is: Water Hammer?

What is Water Hammer and What Causes It? Water hammer is a phenomenon that occurs in plumbing and piping systems when the flow of water is suddenly stopped or changed, causing a shockwave to travel through the pipes. The sudden change in pressure results from the abrupt stopping of water moving at high speed, creating […]

Problem Solving: Valve Sizing

What is a Valve? Before diving into valve sizing an understanding of what valves are is needed. A valve is a mechanical device that controls the flow of a liquid, gas, or slurry through a systematic passageway such as pipes. A valve achieves control by stopping, varying, or starting the fluid flow, controlling the direction […]

Product Insights: Pressure Transmitters

What is a Pressure Transmitter? Pressure transmitters are devices used to measure the pressure of liquids or gases in pipes or containers. The pressure readings are then converted into a standardized electrical signal that can be easily interpreted by a control system. Pressure transmitters are often called a pressure transducer but there are key differences […]

Product Insights: Temperature Sensors

What are Temperature Sensors? Temperature Sensors are devices used to measure the temperature of an object, environment, or system. This information is then converted into an electrical signal that can be measured or processed by an instrument, controller, or display. How do Temperature Sensors Work? The basic principle of a temperature sensor is the Seebeck […]