ENDRESS+HAUSER is donating funds to a community water project in Southern Africa to celebrate one million sales of its trademark magmeter.
The project aims to provide long-term drinking water supplies and sanitation to an area with around 300,000 inhabitants. The community’s dilapidated wells will be rebuilt, the silted-up boreholes will be cleared out and the faulty pumps will be replaced.
The company’s magmeter sales reached the one million mark in May 2008, 31 years after its introduction to the market.
The developer says the units are found in industries which require the measurement of conductive liquid flowrates. They are primarily used in the water and wastewater, mining and food sectors.
The company says the device’s robust construction allows it to be used in harsh environmental conditions. It is typically used to monitor continuous flow, filling and dosing applications. It is compatible with sludge, pulps, pastes, acids, alkalis, juices and water.
The instrument provider has been involved in flow measurement since the 1960’s and began to focus on the water and wastewater industry in the mid-1970s.
The method behind the magmeter was first devised by Swiss inventor and Benedictine priest, Father Bonaventura Thurlemann. His 1941 publication ‘Method of Electrical Velocity Measurement in Liquids,’ demonstrated how Faraday’s Laws could be used to measure the flow of conductive liquids.
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