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Decades of industry experience in manufacturing, selling, and supporting one of the largest industrial instrumentation lines in the industry generates a wealth of knowledge that we are happy to share with you. We hope you find these educational articles helpful and remember, we are always here for you with free advice for any of your instrumentation questions or concerns.

Manifold Flow Meters

Learn what manifold flow meters are, what purpose they serve, how they work, their advantages, and where they are commonly used.

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Wastewater Flow Measurement

Learn now about wastewater facts like where it comes from, what it is, how it is treated, where it goes and how it is best measured during the treatment process.

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Flow Switches

Learn about Flow Switches: what they are, what they are not, how they relate to flow meters, types, selection criteria, installation considerations, maintenance, applications, and more.

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Stormwater Flow Measurement

Learn all about stormwater and how it can be measured using level sensors with wiers or flumes.

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Flow Restrictors & Regulators

Learn all about Flow Restrictors, Flow Regulators, and Balancing Valves: different types and purposes, what they do, what they look like, how they are related to flow meters, application areas, how they work, why they are used, if they increase or decrease pressure, installation, removal, cost, and more.

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Flow Indicators

Learn all about Flow Indicators: what they are, what they are not, their function, how they work, how to view them, how they are different from other flow instrumentation, different types, different media capacities, application areas, installation, pricing, and more.

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Flow Meter Accuracy

Learn all about Flow Meter Accuracy, Repeatability, and Resolution: what the differences are, why flow meters have accuracy specifications, how they are derived, how they are stated, which flow meter types offer what accuracy capabilities, how to improve accuracy, and more.

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Coriolis Flow Meters

Coriolis Flow Meter Technology: what they are used for, how they work, advantages, disadvantages, application areas, how to choose and size one, versus other technologies, pressure drop, straight pipe requirements, accuracy, installation, troubleshooting, calibration, turndown ratio, cost, and more.

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How to Select a Flow Meter

Learn all about how to select the right flow meter for your application: where to start and a comprehensive list of all the questions you need to ask to avoid choosing the wrong flow meter and creating problems down the road.

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How to Read a Flow Meter

Learn all about how to read different flow meter technology types, local versus remote displays, how displays are powered and more.

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ABOUT KOBOLD USA

For decades, KOBOLD has been a world leader in process measurement and control solutions. We offer one of the industry’s broadest lines of sensors, switches and transmitters to measure and control flow, pressure, level and temperature. KOBOLD sensors and controls include:

Flow meters, flow switches and flow transmitters

Pressure gauges, pressure transmitters and pressure switches

Level switches, float switches, level gauges, level transducers, level indicators and level transmitters

Temperature switches, temperature gauges and temperature transmitters

Accessories, including magnetic filters, needle valves, regulating valves, control devices and relays

INDUSTRIAL MEASURING AND CONTROL EQUIPMENT

KOBOLD and its affiliate companies have been and continue to be leaders in the field of industrial measuring and control equipment. Some of our products have set the bar in the industry, helping to shape the field of industrial instrumentation into what it is today. Always on the leading edge, we offer a comprehensive portfolio of reliable instrumentation that is found in a vast array of applications all over the world. Our technologies offer a solution oriented way to control the most diverse variables.

OUR CUSTOMERS ARE OUR PRIORITY

Our years of experience and our excellence in customer service and technical support have built our industry reputation as the partner of choice. We believe in serving and supporting our customers and our products and have made customer service a priority. Our expert engineers are always available during business hours to help you choose your KOBOLD solution, and their decades of experience are an asset that we are proud of. We are here to help you develop and select the best solution for your system, and eliminate the challenges that can come in selecting the most optimal and economical equipment for your application.

MEASURING, CONTROLLING AND AUTOMATING WITH KOBOLD

Our technical solutions can be easily integrated into a wide variety of systems in many industrial sectors. Thanks to internationally recognized BUS interfaces, most of our models can be easily adapted into already established automated processes. Our innovative instrumentation delivers that highest standards of service and can handle complex automated processes. Because our models are both sophisticated and easy to use, they are very popular among end users.

INSTRUMENTATION ABOVE AND BEYOND THE STANDARD

While KOBOLD offers a wide variety of instrumentation that meets most standard application needs, we are also able to meet extraordinary application needs that can be hard to find solutions for. We also offer other instrumentation that can handle excessive amounts of flow, pressure, and temperature. Our familiarity with exotic materials allows us to offer solutions for variables that are frequently hard to accommodate. Because we are the manufacturer, we also have the flexibility of being able to provide customized solutions in certain circumstances, based on the exact application needs.