Our Story
Dave Korpi, was one of the founding partners and the Senior Vice President of Sierra Instruments Inc. that was recently acquired by the TASI Group. At Sierra, Dave devoted over 25 years developing the latest technology and highest quality thermal mass flow meters, and support systems in the market. He holds over 10 patents, and patents pending, for the novel technology such as that utilized by Sierra Instruments, including Novel Mass Flow Meter Sensors, Thermal Mass Flow Meter Temperature Compensation Methods, Primary Standard Calibration Systems, The first low cost Injection Mass Flow Meter, Real-Time Inertial Micro-Balance systems and more.
Dave was the lead engineer and in charge of the development of all flowmeters. Dave is the cliche “brilliant eccentric inventor” who made a hobby of voraciously reading every technical journal related to flow meters and MatLab code pertaining to solutions of Navier Stokes partial differential equations.
Chris recognized that the primary challenge in flow measurement isn’t the sensor—it’s the installation. In real-world systems, elbows, valves, and space constraints introduce swirl and turbulence that degrade accuracy and increase system losses. By focusing on these conditions, he developed a new approach to flow conditioning that stabilizes flow while minimizing pressure loss.
