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Putting a flume in really isn't that hard. You can really break down it down into five steps: Now is the time to take the time to get familiar with the flume. Make sure that you understand how the needs to sit in the channel. The important thing here is to know which end goes…

Reduced height flumes provide a convenient solution to applications where the anticipated flows at a site do not warrant a large flume, but where the flow channel is wider than can otherwise easily / economically accommodate a smaller flume.

Unless you use or put in flumes for a living, you may not be familiar with the layout of a typical flume installation. The components of most flume installations are: the flume (naturally), the sensor, and the flow meter.

wastewater can be a pain to accurately measure. The environment is corrosive and humid; while the flow itself can experience wide swings due inflow and infiltration. Wastewater is usually carried in non-full open channel pipes. Measuring in these pipes is considerably more…

We've collected a series of photos exclusively showing fiberglass Parshall flumes in a variety of different sizes. We're visual people and prefer pictures over words. 18" Parshal Flume with Inlet Wing Walls [sandwiched between (2) 12" Parshall Flumes]

When investigating a flume’s operation, one thing to look for is the presence of submergence. Certain visual clues can help an operator to make informed assumptions regarding a flume’s performance.

Sometimes we come across an installation in the field where we want to show you have others have solved problems that you may be wrestling with. On a recent site visit, a customer showed us a discharge chute that they had developed to minimize erosion downstream of their Parshall…

Openchannelflow is please to announce the addition of a new section to the web site: Palmer Bowlus Flumes! The section wil be full of the same high quality research and information on Palmer Bowlus flumes that you have come to expect from our other flume products. Over the next…

In our recent series …Ways to Screw Up a Flume Installation we highlighted some of the more common (or comical) ways we have seen flume installations go awry. Now we’d like to show you some of the ones that were done right.

When we wrote our article on Ways to Screw Up a Flume Installation, and its companion piece More Ways to Screw Up a Flume Installation, we touched on some of the basic ways that an installation can go awry. Those lists, like the one following, were not intended to cover every…

When we wrote our article on Ways to Screw Up a Flume Installation, we touched on some of the basic ways that an installation can go awry. Many of the possibilities mentioned came from the installation conditions. Here we delve into more of the application errors and deliberate…

There are any numbers of ways to screw up the installation of a flume. Below are just some of them. The centerline of the flume should be along the centerline of the flow stream to be measured. Without flow conditioners, flow that this off angle to the centerline of the flume…