PCS for next level Flow Controllers
- Fully customized flow controllers
- Manufactured for your particular process parameters & adapted to your process
- Always matching your needs in rangeability, precision, and versatility
- Combined with an Equilibar control valve that is also tailored to your application
- Offering a wide variety of specialty flow sensors, selected by PCS’ flow experts
Flow Controllers by PCS: Outperforming convention!
This results in tailor-made solutions that surpass the performance of conventional flow controllers:
- Conventional valves are often not capable of handling specialty requirements, such as high pressure or supercritical CO2
- Elevated temperatures are not an issue anymore!
- Rangeability up to 1:5.000 with just 1 flow controller
Examples of our Flow Control Applications
There are many processes and applications involving flow, where PCS can help you. Both with our experience and expertise and with our unique precision process control products. Examples include product dosing, coating installations, high-resolution flow control, supercritical fluid control, pump flow control, mass flow meter calibration, continuous flow chemistry, and more.
Do you need flow control that is both highly accurate & capable of low flow rates?
The precision and versatility of state-of-the-art Coriolis flow meters combine well with the rangeability, precision, and versatility of our Equilibar ® dome-loaded back pressure valves. Combining the 2 is specialty expertise and this is exactly how PCS designs new solutions that combine the best of both worlds; always tailored to your application needs!
Our solutions solve issues in your process, that conventional products leave unsolved.
PCS does Flow Control Differently
With its unique features, the Equilibar control valve is capable of finding the required pressure balance instantly, without friction, and at very high precision. Our valves are designed to handle high pressure drops and offer an extremely large flow rangeability, enabling the handling of extremely low flow rates at high pressure drops, and doing so at high precision.
The actuation of the valve happens by modulating the pilot pressure at the dome of the dome-loaded valve, pushing and releasing a diaphragm on and from multiple orifices. The result is a force balance between the reference (dome) pressure and the pressure upstream of the dome-loaded valve. How does this apply to flow control? Well, a characteristic of the Coriolis sensor is the pressure drop over the long and narrow measuring tube and thus a significant pressure drop. When applying an Equilibar back pressure regulator for the purpose of flow control, the pressure drop is put to your advantage: When an increasing flow results in an increasing pressure drop over the flow sensor, the reference pressure needs to decrease accordingly. The pressure drop over the sensor is used to create a control bandwidth for the reference pressure, enabling to exactly regulate the – fluctuating – reference pressure that is required to achieve constant flow through the flow control set-up.
More Materials Options
Most Coriolis flow meters are available in different wetted materials. But for control valves, finding the right materials often is more challenging. Good to know: Equilibar dome-loaded valves are available in almost any material! PCS can thus offer you flow control solutions, even for a process where the media can only see SS316, Hastelloy, or PTFE – we customize each flow solution according to your requirements!
Some media are difficult to handle, which can create additional challenges in flow control. Equilibar control valves solve that challenge through the unique benefit that the media is not in contact with the instrument itself. This enables optimal precision in any application, regardless of the use of aggressive media.
Blogs and resources about Precision Flow Control
See this 2020 article by innovator Jeff Jennings of Equilibar in Flow Control Magazine, where Jeff explains how Equilibar’s back pressure regulators enable a variety of flow control and other control applications.
See this blog by Armand Bergsma, who has 20+ years of experience in process control (including 16 years with Bronkhorst High-Tech): Solving flow control challenges using a back pressure regulator.
