Rosemount™ 5300 Level Transmitter - Guided Wave Radar

The Rosemount 5300 Series level transmitter is our premium 2-wire guided wave radar for challenging level and interface measurements on liquids, slurries and solids. It is everything you would expect from a best-in-class process radar - superior reliability, state-of-the-art safety features, effortless handling, and unlimited connectivity.

Guided Wave Radar is a continuous level measurement technique that offers several advantages. It is virtually unaffected by temperature, pressure, and vapor gas mixtures. It has no moving parts and therefore requires little or no maintenance. It measures the level directly and is therefore unaffected by most fluid property changes, including but not limited to density and viscosity changes.

The 5300 Series uses Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) technology. Low power nano-second microwave pulses are guided down a probe submerged in the process media. When a radar pulse reaches a media with a different dielectric constant, part of the energy is reflected to the transmitter. The time difference between the transmitted and the reflected pulse is converted into a distance from which the total level or interface level is calculated.

This level transmitter delivers cutting edge performance with DST, which is a rapid switch for signal transmission between the transmitter and the receiver. The Rosemount 5300 Series minimizes signal losses, which results in a two to five times stronger received signal compared to other guided wave radar transmitters. This results in a better signal-to-noise ratio and an increased ability to handle disturbing factors. It also enables long measuring ranges (up to 164 ft (50m)) and measurements on low reflective media (dielectrics from 1.4), even with a single lead probe.