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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…

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…

There are any numbers of ways to screw up the installation of a flume.  What follows are just some of the more basic ones... Not centering the flume in the flow stream Not having uniform flow Having supercritical flow and more....

Bubbler flow meters can be an excellent flow meter choice when measuring flows in flumes or weir boxes.  Bubbler flow meters are unaffected by wind, foam, steam, and floating solids and provide a high level of measurement accuracy.  Adapting bubbler meters for use with…

H Flumes are one of the more versatile styles of flume when it comes to customization for site conditions.  Versatility with the approach section length / layout mean that a wide variety of inlet conditions can be accomodated.  On the outlet side...

One of the oft-mentioned benefits Packaged Metering Manholes is the ability to integrate flumes and other structures that are larger than the manhole barrel diameter, but what exactly does this mean?

As we’ve seen before in our comparison of H-flume and Parshall flume manufacturers, not all “equal” products are just that…equal. Here we compare the construction details of Packaged Metering Manholes.  Packaged Metering Manholes take proven open…

Customer - Lonza Mapleton AMEC in Peoria, IL approached Openchannelflow with a unique application:  an industrial customer of theirs needed to measure storm water flows in an existing earthen channel.   Find out how Openchannelflow helped AMEC solve their customers…

When we talk of “or equal” what exactly does that mean when we are talking about fiberglass Parshall flumes? To some, a Parshall flume is a Parshall flume, with little if any distinction made between manufacturers.  Naturally we don't feel the same.  We…

To some people a flume, is a flume, is a flume.  They are all based on the same dimensional standards, so it doesn’t really make a difference who makes it.  Right? Wrong.  As you’ve heard before, the devil is in the details. 

One question we get asked time and time again is:  do I need fiberglass / galvanized  / stainless steel wing walls for my fiberglass / galvanized / stainless steel flume or can I just form them on my own? The short answer is no. The longer answer is a little more…