try to use insertion type mag meter from signet if liquid is suitable to mag technology. or else you can try vortex provided liquid is clean and less viscous. it really depends on the process characteristics
Actually, there are several low cost vortex meters, including one or two that are priced to compete with paddlewheels. Fluidyne, Signet and Asahi America make them. As long as the solids are not grotesquely abrasive, and the Reynolds number stays above 8000 or so, the vortex meters will work.
This of course assumes a full pipe with very low percentage air or gas entrainment.
If the pipe is not full, there is no pipeline flowmeter that is inexpensive that will make the measurement. There are pipeline flowmeters that will make the measurement: partially-full magnetic flowmeters...but they are not cheap.
ABB, Endress+Hauser, Krohne and ISCO make them.
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