In response to growing industry demand, Morgan Advanced Materials has launched a new best in class 2MHz water coupled transducer for ultrasonic flow metering, offering greatly improved sensitivity and shortened ring-up time.

Customisable for any liquid measurement application from water metering to fuel flow, Morgan's 2Mhz flow sensor provides a high receive signal over a very small area, and at only 20mm in diameter offers space and material savings while maintaining superior performance. The sensor is capable of operating with a wide bandwidth and high sensitivity, and resists pressures of up to 50 Bar.

Charles Dowling, Project Engineer at Morgan, explained: "The 2MHz sensor demonstrates our agility in responding quickly to evolving customer requirements. We knew that utility companies in particular had a need for higher accuracy sensors. This led to our design of a high sensitivity, wide bandwidth sensor, with reduced zero flow offset between transducers. This combination of electrical properties has enabled us to release our most accurate sensor yet, whilst maintaining resistance to high pressure bursts and operating across a wide range of operating temperatures from 1°C to 120°C.

"The standard 2Mhz sensor offers an impressive drive to receive ratio of 2:1 and is supplied in an advanced water resistant thermoplastic. Custom developments can be manufactured in a number of different materials according to specific requirements.

The new 2MHz sensor offers a ring-up time which is around 3 times shorter than alternative ultrasonic sensors on the market. Charles Dowling added: "Ring-up time refers to the time taken for the sensor to reach maximum output then return to zero output, and some customers had previously had issues with alternative sensors which can disrupt measurement accuracies due to their extended ring-up time.

"Our transducer research and development team work closely with customers to develop bespoke solutions for individual applications or challenges and, with advanced FEA modelling tools for our customised solutions; we can deliver new solutions quickly and accurately."

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