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Typical Required
Flowmeter Pressure Viscosity Relative
Recommended Service Rangeability Accuracy, Upstream pipe,
element Loss effect Cost
percent diameters
Clean, dirty liquids; some ±2 to ±4 of
Orifice 4 to 1 Medium 10 to 30 High Low
slurries full scale2
Low to ±0.5 to ±2 of
Wedge Slurries and Viscous liquids 3 to 1 10 to 30 Low High
medium full scale
Clean, dirty and viscous
Venturi tube 4 to 1 Low ±1 of full scale 5 to 20 High Medium
liquids; some slurries
±1 to ±2 of
Flow nozzle Clean and dirty liquids 4 to 1 Medium 10 to 30 High Medium
full scale
±3 to ±5 of
Pitot tube Clean liquids 3 to 1 Very low 20 to 30 Low Low
full scale
Clean, dirty liquids; some ±5 to ±10 of
Elbow meter 3 to 1 Very low 30 Low Low
slurries full scale
Clean, dirty viscous liquids; ±1 to ±5 of
Target meter 10 to 1 Medium 10 to 30 Medium Medium
some slurries full scale
±1 to ±10 of
Variable area Clean, dirty viscous liquids 10 to 1 Medium None Medium Low
full scale
Positive
Displacement
Clean, viscous liquids 10 to 1 High ±0.5 of rate3 None High Medium
Clean, dirty viscous
Electromagnetic conductive liquids and 40 to 1 None ±0.5 of rate 5 None High
slurries
Ultrasonic Dirty, viscous liquids and
10 to 1 None ±5 of full scale 5 to 30 None High
(Doppler) slurries
Ultrasonic(Time ±1 to ±5 of
Clean, viscous liquids 20 to 1 None 5 to 30 None High
oftravel) full scale
Clean, dirty viscous liquids;
Mass(Coriolis) 10 to 1 Low ±0.4 of rate None None High
some slurries
Clean, dirty viscous liquids;
Mass (Thermal) 10 to 1 Low ±1 of full scale None None High
some slurries
±2 to ±5 of
Weir (Vnotch) Clean, dirty liquids 100 to 1 Very low None Very Low Medium
full scale
±2 to ±5 of
Flume (Parshall) Clean, dirty liquids 50 to 1 Very low None Very low Medium
full scale
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