Industrial Turbo — Industrial Turbine Flow Meters

It is Badger Meter’s industrial turbine meter — a volumetric flow meter whose rotor spins at an angular velocity proportional to the fluid moving through it. Straightening vanes and a nose cone on the inlet condition the flow onto the rotor, electronic (or mechanical) pickups read the rotor, and the meter puts out an open-collector pulse (or a mechanical/electromechanical register reading). The straight-through profile and long-life ceramic bearings give a high level of accuracy over a wide flow range with low pressure loss. It comes in 2, 3, 4, and 6 in line sizes.

A wide range of industrial fluids — from water to oils, solvents, and acids — wherever high volume or high flow rates come up. Typical uses are water-treatment systems, loading and unloading of tankers or rail cars, batching systems, and process-fluid inventory control. It is an industrial process meter, not a potable-water utility meter; the seal material (Buna-N, EPR, or Viton) and housing are matched to your fluid.

Four sizes, each with a high-accuracy prime range and a wider extended range. At ±0.5%: 2 in reads 20–160 gpm, 3 in 60–350, 4 in 100–1000, and 6 in 250–2000 gpm. At ±1.5% the ranges widen to 8–200, 10–450, 25–1250, and 40–2500 gpm respectively. Repeatability is 0.25%. The meter runs 32–250°F, needs only 7 psi minimum, and is rated to 125 psi (cast-iron, 125-lb flat-face flanges) or 150 psi (stainless, 150-lb raised-face). Size to the flow rate, not the pipe — tell us your normal and peak flow and we pick the size.

The housing is cast iron or 316 stainless steel; the head is bronze or stainless; the rotor and nose cone are Ryton; the bearings are ceramic; the straightening vanes are 316 stainless; and the O-ring/Tetraseal is Buna-N, EPR, or Viton (with a matched nitrile or chloroprene head gasket). Two housing materials let you put a cast-iron meter on plant water and a 316SS meter on a corrosive or higher-purity fluid.

A full accessory line, meter-mounted or remote. A mechanical RCDL totalizer gives a local non-resettable read; pulse transmitters (PFT-3 / PFT-3E reed or electronic, RST-6P NEMA 6P) feed a PLC or SCADA; the PFT-4E is a scaled pulse; and the PFT-420/2 adds a 4-20 mA analog loop. Electronic registers — the ER-9 (scaleable rate/total with scaled pulse) and ER-420 (with 4-20 mA, in AC, DC, or loop-powered) — give a digital display plus outputs, and the PC-200 process controller adds on-board batch/relay control. Any of these can be remote-mounted away from the meter.

Yes — that is a core feature. The head/measuring element lifts out for inspection or rotor service without breaking the flanged body out of the pipe, which keeps the spool in place and downtime short. Replacement head assemblies are stocked as a line item.

A turbine meter wants reasonably clean fluid — grit and debris wear the rotor and bearings — so an upstream strainer is good practice; Badger offers matched 2–6 in bronze (NSF) external-plate strainers for the line. The built-in straightening vanes and nose cone reduce sensitivity to upstream disturbance, but for best accuracy still allow a straight run ahead of the meter. We spec the strainer and placement with the meter.

Industrial Turbo is a regional Badger Meter line — Prater Technical is the authorized distributor for Northern and Central New Jersey and New York. It is configured to your size, materials, and register/output and quoted to the application — not sold on the webstore; we ship through our Brooklyn facility, and offer meter programming and commissioning as an optional, quoted service. For a remote or off-grid point, the meter’s pulse or 4-20 mA output backhauls through a Telog cellular RTU powered from a SunWize solar supply. Contact us for a quote, current availability or lead time.