In bioethanol production processes, engineers must closely monitor pressure, temperature, level, and flow in order to ensure safe and efficient operations. Diaphragm seals in these applications do double duty: protect pressure measurement instruments from the medium, …
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What Is Gauge Pressure and How Is It Measured?
Hardy Orzikowski | Know-how, PressureWIKA USA answers frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the basic physical principles of pressure and pressure measurement. This includes discussions of absolute pressure, atmospheric pressure, gauge pressure, and differential pressure. Pressure is generally …
Count on WIKA’s Dry Cell Sanitary Gauge for Accurate Pressure Readings
Hardy Orzikowski | ApplicationsCompliance and Risk, Operations, and Quality Control executives, along with process and maintenance supervisors in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and food and beverage industries , have been clamoring for highly robust, reduced-risk, accurate, easy-to-clean …
Pressure Measurement: Understanding PSI, PSIA and PSIG
Hardy Orzikowski | PressurePressure measurement is all about PSI. That’s because pounds per square inch (PSI) is the most common unit for measuring pressure in the U.S. It’s important to understand what PSI means and how it is used, as pressure measurement is an important part of life in the …
Eugene Bourdon and the History of the Bourdon Gauge
Hardy Orzikowski | PressureThe Industrial Revolution was underpinned by the fortunes of a few dozen financiers, the blood, sweat and tears of millions of factory workers, and a handful of key technical innovations. One of the key inventions of the mid-19 th century was the Bourdon gauge. …





