Roots Meter Working Principle
Roots flowmeter (gas waist wheel flowmeter) is mainly composed of a housing, a conjugate rotor and a counting device.
A pair of conjugate rotors installed in the measuring chamber maintains the correct relative position of the rotors through precision-machined adjustment gears under the action of the outlet pressure difference of the circulating gas. The optimal working clearance between the rotors, the rotor and the shell, and the rotor and the wall panel is maintained to achieve continuous non-contact sealing.
Each time the rotor rotates once, the gas output is four times the effective volume of the metering chamber. The rotation speed of the rotor passes through the magnetic seal coupling device and reduction mechanism. Passed to the totalizing indication counter, thereby displaying the cumulative volume of the output gas.
What is a Roots gas meter?
Roots gas meter is also called gas waist wheel gas meter. There is a metering chamber inside the casing, and there are one or two pairs of waist wheels in the metering chamber that can rotate tangentially. A pair of drive gears are installed coaxially with the two waist wheels outside the flowmeter housing. They mesh with each other so that the two waist wheels can link with each other to obtain a metering gas meter.
Roots gas meters are mainly used as high-precision measuring instruments for continuous or intermittent measurement of gas flow in pipelines. It has the characteristics of high precision, good reliability, light weight, long life, low operating noise, and easy installation and use.
What is the best flowmeter for gas?
There are many types of flow meters that can measure gases. There is no best one, only the gas flow meter that is most suitable for your measurement conditions.
The following are some gas flow meters commonly used for industrial gas measurement:
- Gas turbine flow meter;
- Vortex flowmeter;
- Precession vortex flowmeter;
- Positive displacement flow meter;
- Differential pressure flow meter;
- Thermal mass flow meter;
After understanding the parameters and performance characteristics of various gas flow meters, you need to select the most suitable gas flow meter based on the actual measurement conditions. If you need technical support for selecting a gas flow meter, please feel free to contact Sino-Inst’s sales engineers!