How Do You Monitor Fuel or Fluid Storage Tank Levels?
New Technology Detects Level, Density, Water, and Scale. ENRAF Level Instruments by TRIVACO work like a fishing “downrigger” to find level of product, water, scale, and even calculate specific gravity!
»Problem: How do you monitor fuel or fluid storage tank levels?
»Solution: ENRAF servo guages!
»Author: Paul Haulschildt
Problem: Monitoring tank levels?
Accuracy and reliability are vital for the trouble-free operation of your fuel or fluid storage tanks.
Solution: Enraf servo gauges!
ENRAF microprocessor-based servo gauges can monitor your tank levels, alert operators to high and low alarm conditions, calculate gravity, and monitor water/product interfaces. It can even verify tank bottom.
Operating Principle
ENRAF gauges rely on Archimedes principle. (Just like the thermometer in high school science class.) A displacer, suspended by a stainless wire, lands on the liquid and changes the weight of the displacer. Connecting to a microprocessor, it records infinitesimal level changes. The accuracy of the instrument is +/-0.04 inches, and the gauge has a repeatability of 0.004 inches.
Experience
Listen to Reagan National Airport fuel manager Ed Rounsley, a 36-year level controls veteran: "The ENRAF Gauges have proven themselves to be extremely accurate – within the 1/8-inch that can be visibly checked – and we have had virtually no maintenance problems in eight years of operation.”
What’s the Difference?
By passing through the fluid, you don’t just find the upper level. You can detect a water level interface, and determine how much water is in your process fluid. You can calculate the average specific gravity of the process fluid from up to five points. You can program conventional pump up/down and high/low alarms, too.
Use ENRAF gauges in place of the old-fashioned tape and float system that represent 18th century technology. Your expensive fluids and fuels are worth it.
Contact Paul Haulschildt > Get the ENRAF Servo Gauge Bulletin, and The Art of Tank Gauging. We can bring out a demo unit, or arrange to view a nearby installation.
