INSTRUMENTATION
ULTRASONIC AND RADAR LEVEL TECHNOLOGIES
BRINGING CLARITY TO THE WATER AND WASTEWATER INDUSTRY Herman Coello*
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There is room for both level measurement technologies in the water and wastewater industry, but which should you choose?
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f your head spins after reading how on top, followed by radar. It’s true that amazing one level measurement some level application challenges can be technology is in comparison to another, solved by more than one level technology. understanding the key attributes Yet, no single technology can handle every of these technologies and their process, regardless of cost, how powerful the applicability to specific processes may help instrument is or how new the technology is. to clear the waters. Ultrasonic level technology has been When it comes to devices that monitor proven for decades in the water and the level of clean or not-so-clean water — wastewater industry. Even though both be it in filter beds, wet wells, lift stations, ultrasonic and radar technologies have the water towers, chemical tanks or open required muscle, ultrasonic instruments also channels — ultrasonic technology emerges possess the intelligence to comprehensively >>
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