What Is Gear Flow Meter?
Gear flowmeter is essentially a positive displacement flowmeter. It is mainly composed of metering housing, gear rotor and transmission components. Suitable for flow measurement of various cleaning liquids.
The working principle of the gear flowmeter is that the liquid drives a pair of gears to rotate. The volume of each cavity is a fixed volume. The gear speed leads the sensor to send out a synchronized pulse count. The rotation of the gear is transmitted to the counter through the magnetic seal coupling and transmission reduction mechanism, which directly indicates the total amount flowing through the flow meter.
Different shapes and structures of gears are different types of gear flowmeters. For example, our GF series flowmeter is a spur gear.
Gear Flow Meter Working Principle
The gear flowmeter applies the pressure difference, generated by the liquid while it flows through the flowmeter chamber, to push a air of gears to be engaged, and such two gears are exactly matching with each other and are enclosed in a precision machined chamber.
Chambers of the same volume will be formed between each gear root and measuring chamber. The gear rotates to cut the liquid into the liquid of single and known volume.
The total volume of liquid is measured by the number of times of repetitive charge of the liquid into and and discharge from the chamber. In a word, it is similar to “bailing out water with a water ladle”.
Set the circulating volume of flowmeter as ν, the number of revolution of the gear in a certain period of time as N, and the volume of liquid flowing through the flowmeter in unit time as V, then:
V=Nν
Non-contacting sensor generates a pulse (P) by inducing a gear.
The extracted signal will be displayed in form of square wave output signal via digitalization of signal amplifier. The square wave output signal can be processed by any external electronic products (e.g. PLC and IC), for display of instantaneous flow rate and accumulative volume via a local display instrument or wireless remote transmission or other forms of presentation by means of GPRS and so on.