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• Analyze Naphtha Quality in Crude Distillation Unit (Lab and Test Equipment)
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  The quality of fractions from the CDU (crude distillation unit) need to be continuously monitored, assuring the refinery that it is maintaining peak performance from the column while controlling... (View Full Article)
• Blancher Make-up Water Monitoring and Control (Filtration and Separation Products)
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  For most processors, the blanching process is by far the largest consumer of water and energy. In some operations the blanching process was reported to consume more than 50% of the plant's overall... (View Full Article)
• Centrifugal (Centrifuge) Separation (Lab and Test Equipment)
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  Centrifugal separators provide liquid/solids or liquid/liquid separation at various stages in many separation processes, from course separation to ultra-clarification. Typically solids removal is... (View Full Article)
• Chromatographic Separation (Environmental Sensors)
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  optek UV sensors can be optimized for both high OD and low end resolution for monitoring real time protein concentration. optek AF45 or AF46 sensors have proven time and again to provide accurate... (View Full Article)
• Clean-In-Place (CIP) Applications (Industrial Cleaning and Surface Preparation)
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  CIP is the method used in sanitary processing plants to clean tanks, piping and even workspaces between production batches by automatically recirculating detergent and rinse solutions. The washing... (View Full Article)
• Diatomaceous Earth (DE) Filtration Control & Monitoring (Filtration and Separation Products)
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  Many processes, particularly beverages, require some form of filtration to clarify the product. Normally, filtration proceeds from coarse filtration by means of separators, decanters, or settling... (View Full Article)
• Electroplating: Solution Concentration Monitoring and Control (Surface Coating and Protection)
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  Rigid quality standards and the ever increasing need to optimize chemical use and improve process efficiency drives many electroplaters to seek a higher level of automation and control as a key to... (View Full Article)
• Fermentation and Cell Growth Monitoring (Calibration and Testing Services)
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  Continuous biomass measurement, coupled with other parameters such as DO, pH and temperature, allows the user to understand and optimize fermentation or cell culture cycles. Cell density probes can be... (View Full Article)
• Fuel Analysis: Water Detection in Jet Fuel, Diesel Fuel, and Gasoline (Filtration and Separation Products)
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  Fuel analysis is very important part of the refining process. By continuously monitoring the free water and suspended solids in fuels, operations can immediately detect inefficiencies or failures in... (View Full Article)
• Heat Exchanger Leak - Carryover Detection (Oil In Water) (Force Sensing)
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  Heat exchanger leak detection is an important standard application for many processors. Companies in all industries increasingly demand the measurement of oil contents in the ppm-range. For this... (View Full Article)
• Inline Chlorine Dioxide Monitoring - Pulp Bleaching (Environmental Sensors)
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  Chlorine Dioxide (ClO2) has become the most significant bleaching agent in the pulp and paper industry for Elemental Chlorine-Free (ECF) bleaching. Different bleaching sequences must be used in the... (View Full Article)
• Inline Process Color Measurement (Calibration and Testing Services)
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  Process color measurements of liquids are critical in maintaining precise process control and meeting product quality specifications. Color changes indicate other process variables such as... (View Full Article)
• Interface Detection - Product - Water or Product - Product (Environmental Sensors)
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  This is by far the most popular and cost-saving application in liquid production processes. The resulting decrease in product loss and wastewater loading can save thousands of dollars per year.... (View Full Article)
• Lambert-Beer Law (Calibration and Testing Services)
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  Inside an optek photometer, a precisely focused light beam is used to penetrate the process medium. A photoelectric silicon cell measures the resulting light intensity. The change in light intensity... (View Full Article)
• Measuring Aluminum Brazing Flux Concentration (Calibration and Testing Services)
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  Fluxes are used in the various aluminum brazing operations such as the Nocolok® Controlled Atmosphere Brazing (CAB) process mainly used in the manufacture of automotive heat exchangers like... (View Full Article)
• PAT Your Process with Optek: Control Variability Inline, Real-Time for Increased Process Knowledge (Calibration and Testing Services)
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  a system for designing, analyzing, and controlling manufacturing through timely measurements (i.e., during processing) of critical quality and performance attributes of raw and in-process materials... (View Full Article)
• Phase Separation in Batch Processes - Aqueous Phase - Organic Phase (Filtration and Separation Products)
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  The extraction of high-cost products from an aqueous phase to an organic phase or vice versa or a salting-in/salting-out processes are very common and important procedures in the pharmaceutical... (View Full Article)
• Process Turbidity Analyzers (Calibration and Testing Services)
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  Absorption based photometers typically incorporate a focused beam of light and project this beam through the process media while working much the same way as a laboratory spectrophotometer. Process... (View Full Article)
• Spectral Range of Measurement (Calibration and Testing Services)
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  Optek process photometers use three superior grade light sources in conjunction with precision filters and photo components. A wide selection of optical components allows optek to configure a process... (View Full Article)
• Tangential Flow Filtration (Filtration and Separation Products)
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  The primary purpose of Tangential Flow Filtration is the concentration of product present in feed solution from a previous purification or separation step. The feed solution is circulated in a closed... (View Full Article)
• Trace Lube Oil in Cooling Water (Environmental and Water Quality Instruments)
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  The ability to detect oil in water is important in many industrial processes involving cooling water or heat exchangers. For example, electric generating stations often use natural sources of water... (View Full Article)
• Turbidity in the Real World (Calibration and Testing Services)
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  To effectively use a turbidity analyzer in an industrial process environment, many things must be considered. A turbidity meter must be rugged in construction, watertight, able to withstand process... (View Full Article)
• Turbidity Overview: What is Turbidity and how is it measured? (Calibration and Testing Services)
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  Turbidity is an optical characteristic or property of a liquid, which in general terms describes the clarity, or haziness of the liquid. Turbidity has always been based on human observation and while... (View Full Article)
• Turbidity Units of Measure (Calibration and Testing Services)
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  Spectral absorption is expressed by Lambert-Beer's law and is based on compiled work by Pierre Bouguer and Johann Heinrich Lambert in the 1700's, as well as August Beer a century later.... (View Full Article)
• Vegetable Oil Refining (Calibration and Testing Services)
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  For years vegetable and edible oil refineries have been using spectrophotometers, colorimeters and turbidimeters in the lab to analyze process samples. Samples must be pulled from the process, brought... (View Full Article)
• Waste Water: Inline Total Organic Carbon (TOC) Monitoring (Environmental and Water Quality Instruments)
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  The rapid growth of the manufacturing industry and the associated increase in pollution has focused considerable attention on the quality of effluents and wastewater. Strict laws have been passed to... (View Full Article)
• Wastewater BOD Reduction (Environmental and Water Quality Instruments)
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  With the growing importance of effective pollution control, added emphasis has been placed on Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD). The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses BOD levels to measure... (View Full Article)
• Water Processing: Control Cost and Improve Efficiency With Real-Time Monitoring (Environmental and Water Quality Instruments)
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  optek photometric analyzers help to control cost and improve efficiency in any type of water processing. Real time monitoring improves processes and quickly alerts operators to non-compliant... (View Full Article)