Category: Q&A

What is a Sight Glass Indicator

Pipelines are different from tanks and vessels in that the sight glass is used to observe flow. The sight flow indicator is an assembly consisting of two opposed sight glasses mounted to a housing. This arrangement allows ambient light to illuminate the flow from behind. There are also versions using a tubular glass that admits…

What is a Sight Glass

Typically, a sight glass, a highly-engineered sight glass used in industry, is a kind of window or view port on a processing tank or pipeline. Sight glasses are used in industries ranging from refineries to breweries. Perhaps because of their widely-varied applications, sight glasses are called by different names. Sight Glass Window. Broadly speaking think…

Milestones – The Papenmeier Timeline

Milestones 1956 foundation as an engineering office Good licensing income as a result of an invention and the firm intention to realise new concepts in his own company are Friedrich Horst Papenmeier’s seed capital for the programme: Consulting in the field of applied electrical engineering. 1958 The first sight glass 1959 Division of Control Systems…