SOLUTION FOR FOULING LIQUIDS

Capacitance sensors can sense nearly any substance, even solids, without fouling. Sticky, scaling, coating, crystallizing, and viscous liquids are no problem.  The only problem was how to position them so they can be in position to sense the liquid! This is usually not easy because the surface of the sensor may not be suitable for corrosive chemicals. One solution is to mount the sensor outside a tank and have it sense through the tank wall. (as long as the tank wall is not metal, and it is less than 1/2″ thick) To do this, it requires fastening a bracket onto the outside of a tank wall.   Our unique pipe-mount capacitance sensor means that installation is now easy as it can be mounted through the top of the tank.  We have many solutions for this on our tank alarm page. 

The innovative feature that allows the capacitance sensor to work is that the sensor is located inside the pipe.  That way the sensor is protected from the chemicals, and so it can work in extremely challenging liquids that coat or crystallize and give other types of sensors problems.

MATERIALS

The only wetted parts are the sensor probe which is PVDF.  This makes the sensor is easy to clean because the surface is very smooth.

We use this technology in many of our level control products such as overfill alarms and level controllers.

For more detail and purchasing information, here is a link to the main web page for the capacitance sensor Tank Alarm.