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Turbine vs Vortex Flow Meters: How to Choose the Right Technology
Among the many flow meter technologies on the market, turbine and vortex flow meters are two of the most widely specified for clean liquids, gases, and steam. Both are velocity-based instruments, both produce frequency output that is proportional to flow, and both are often — incorrectly — treated as interchangeable. They are not. A turbine flow meter spins a rotor in the flowing medium; a vortex flow meter counts swirling eddies shed from a bluff body. That single difference drives everything else: what they can measure, how accurately, how much maintenance they need, and where they fail. Specifying the wrong...
14 August, 2026
