Glass Sided Tilting Flume Experiment

A glass sided tilting flume with fabricated all stainless steel bed. Completely self-contained and comprising the working section, moulded inlet and discharge tanks, a series of sump tanks, a pump, an electronic flow meter, a jacking system and a control console. The channel section is fully glazed with large clear panels of toughened glass. A working cross-section of 300mm wide by 450mm deep and available in standard working lengths of 5m, 7.5m, 10m, & 15m. Longer lengths are available to special order in increments of 2.5m. The glass panels are sealed using a rubber section compressed by an aluminum alloy clamping strip. The flume bed is manufactured to high tolerances and designed with an integral web support frame to give the flume a high degree of rigidity and stability. This is coupled with careful design of the side support profiles to provide excellent visibility and allow flow visualization of the full working height of the flume. No under frame or support structure other than jacks is necessary. Rigid dowelled joints are used to connect the sections. The overall strength and rigidity of the design allows excellent stability figures to be achieved and eliminates the need to provide adjusting screws or to perform periodic setting up of the flume to maintain its specification.

Technical Details:
Bed: Exclusively fabricated from stainless steel
Walls: Toughened glass
Sump tanks & pipework: VC (Polyvinyl chloride) & PE (polyethylene)
End tanks: GRP (Glass Reinforced Plastic)
Pump: Close coupled centrifugal
Width: 300 mm
Depth: 450 mm
Length: As ordered (multiples of 2.5m) Note: overall length is 3.25m longer than the working section defined
Flow regulation valve: Hand wheel operated butterfly
-ve slope: 1:200 max (0.28°)
+ve slope: 1:40 max (1.4°)
Flow meter: Electro-magnetic
Side wall stability: <0.5mm (typical) at 400mm water depth
Bed stability: <1.0mm (typical) at 400mm water depth
Maximum flow rate 30 Liters/sec.