The problems of monitoring the state of fl owing media with a simultaneous change in temperature and fl ow rate of the medium by more than two orders of magnitude are considered. A design of a fl ow-through refractometer is proposed for monitoring the state of transparent media in laminar and turbulent fl ow regimes, as well as at high fl ow rates and changes in the temperature of the medium by more than 200°C. The developed fl ow-through refractometer implements a method for measuring the refractive index, based on the principle of parallelism of two beams: the incident and transmitted through a pipeline with refraction at the boundaries of several media. The piping in the form of a cylindrical Plexiglas insert is part of the refractometer design. The design of the optical part of the refractometer with a vertical section of the pipeline eliminates the infl uence on the measurement of the refractive index of errors caused by multiple refl ections of laser radiation from optical elements, the formation of voids or vortex fl ows in the pipeline. For the proposed refractometer there are no restrictions on the value of the measured refractive index of the fl owing liquid, in contrast to the previously used industrial fl ow-through refractometers, the principle of operation of which is based on the phenomenon of total internal refl ection of laser radiation at the interface of two media. The results of experimental studies of various media with the proposed refractometer are presented.