Environmental and Water Quality Instruments Reference Materials

Description: This article details BARTEC's explosion-protection solutions across the hydrogen value chain, covering production, storage, transport, and end-use applications. Key technical topics include ...

Description: Up against their BOD permit limit, the Rand-Whitney Containerboard mill in Montville, Connecticut was proactively seeking solutions that would enable them to monitor their production processes more ...

Description: Reducing product loss and limiting COD discharge to the municipal sewer system were key goals for a dairy manufacturing plant. The facility looked to Real Tech to help achieve these goals, installing ...

Description: Measurement of UV Transmittance is important for ultraviolet (UV) disinfection of drinking water, wastewater, and process water. Low-pressure UV disinfection systems disinfect water using ...

Description: In closed low-pressure water heating and cooling systems, sodium nitrite is a commonly used inhibitor that prevents oxygen related corrosion. It inhibits corrosion by promoting formation of protective ...

Description: Both streaming current detectors (SCD) and UV254 analyzers can provide significant benefits for real-time optimization of the coagulation process. However, there are some fundamental differences ...

Description: Manufacturers in the food and beverage industry lose significant quantities of product in the production process. These losses can equate to a large volume of product lost every year, and therefore ...

Description: Water quality monitoring has evolved significantly over the past decade. Today's industrial manufacturers have access to technologies that are capable of monitoring various wastewater quality ...

Description: Real-time BOD monitoring is becoming increasingly popular, and it's no surprise as the alternative is a 5 day wait for lab results. Continuous organics monitoring opens the door for many new treatment ...

Description: The purpose of source water monitoring is to enable drinking water treatment facilities to identify changes in water quality, implement treatment strategies based on the characteristics of the water, ...

Description: The Village of Port Williams is a thriving agricultural community in Nova Scotia, Canada. Like many agricultural communities, long-term fertilizer application to the land has led to elevated levels of ...

Description: Control of dissolved organics has been one of the highest priority concerns for most water treatment plants for over 20 years. Organics monitoring is an even more critical issue today in the face of ...

Description: Anguil Environmental Systems received a request to quote an oxidizer and packed tower air stripper to treat a 65 gallon per minute water stream containing significant concentrations of Diesel Range ...

Description: The measurement of grease content in waste water is a crucial parameter in water quality control and environmental monitoring performed by water suppliers' laboratories and environmental authorities. ...

Description: As the global commitment to renewable energy sources grows, the importance of using biodiesel as a blending component with diesel fuel has increased. Biodiesel consists of fatty acid methyl esters ...

Description: Fuel dilution in oil can cause serious engine damage. High levels of fuel (>2%) in a lubricant can result in decreased viscosity, oil degradation, loss of dispersancy, and loss of oxidation stability. ...

Description: Liquid cooled engines and rotating equipment use glycol based coolants because of their excellent heat transfer abilities. However, glycol based coolants are not desirable at all in lubrication oil ...

Description: The most important physical property of a lubricating oil is viscosity. Viscosity determines the load carrying ability of the oil as well as how easily it circulates. The correct balance between high ...

Description: It has been over two years since the publication of the first edition of Spectro Scientific's In-Service Oil Analysis Handbook. Our original goal was to compile a comprehensive reference book of ...

Description: Oil in water analysis is a global issue that crosses many industries, analytical methods, and regulatory agencies. Due to the negative effects of oil on the environment, there are strict limits on the ...

Description: Workers at the Kornwestheim treatment plant have been seeking to optimise energy consumption and reduce the nitrogen load in the outlet for many years. However, when using an aeration control system ...

Description: At the Villau treatment plant, the fixed time control for aeration could not be adapted precisely enough to handle the fluctuating load levels. This led to unnecessarily high nitrate values, ...

Description: Real-Time Controls Hach's RTC (Real Time Control) solutions are complete off-the-shelf systems that adjust treatment processes in real time, keeping your facility compliant while reducing treatment ...

Description: Global Defense Technology & Systems, Inc. (GTEC) This major contractor to the U.S. Department of Defense needed a clean solution for dirty shower water in Afghanistan. Eaton filters have answered the ...

Description: Continuous on-line monitoring of oil concentration in produced water for discharge and process improvement has proven to be of great value if the monitors can be maintained. Without exception, ...

Description: The Problem: Long-term contamination of Uh river by waste motor oil, aircraft fuel, etc., being by-products of Russian army bases on Ukrainian part of the border. Slocakia needed to protect its rivers ...

Description: The Problem: Oil may spill out in the process of oil exploration & development, refining, storage and transportation and enter into open water environment like oceanic environment due to incident or ...

Description: New regulations by the European Union require labor atory testing for polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) when recyclin g or disposing old tar or asphalt from road plannings. ...

Description: Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) and Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) are traditional parameters analyzed in the laboratory to determine organic matter in water and wastewater. Wastewater facility ...

Description: TOC Correlation Data ...

Description: In 1996, the Oxidizable Substances Test was replaced with Total Organic Carbon (TOC) testing for purified water and water for injection. The rationale behind this change was that the century-old ...

Description: On April 1, 2012, the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) published the removal of the legacy Oxidizable Substance Test for the water monographs, Sterile Water for Injection (WFI), Sterile Purified Water ...

Description: Traditional cleaning validation and verification approaches tend to focus on complex limits equations, inefficient recovery studies, costly product-specific method development, "pass/fail" ...

Description: Implementing or driving a cleaning validation project can be a "roller coaster" of emotions and challenges. Here's an annotated graph of what it's like to drive a cleaning validation project when ...

Description: The EZ Access Falling Stream Flow Cell - Compatible with TD-4100 and TD-4100XD. Â The EZ Access Falling Stream Flow Cell = Easy access for easy cleaning and easy optical filter change for application ...

Description: Using a process capability approach based on historical or current total organic carbon (TOC) data for swab and rinse samples can demonstrate whether the cleaning process and the limits used for this ...

Description: A leading pharmaceutical manufacturer with high production demands faced cleaning validation challenges. This company's mature, validated production facility was expanding the amount of products they ...

Description: TD-4100 Oil in Water Monitors for Hydroelectric Dam Sumps Hydroelectric Dams produce electric power via the force of the water flowing through the dam. ...

Description: The use of total organic carbon (TOC) in cleaning validation has become a widespread best practice throughout the pharmaceutical industry as an analytical method designed to verify the performance of ...

Description: The goal of any cleaning validation program is to reduce the opportunity for product contamination or compound carryover that may be present on the production equipment. The validation of this type of ...

Description: Interest in Total Organic Carbon (TOC) analysis as a non-specific method for cleaning validation has grown considerably during the past decades because specific analytical testing, like High ...

Description: The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and its international equivalents, have stipulated longstanding regulations designed to serve the public with respect to controlling the strength, ...

Description: Pharmaceutical drug manufacturers looking for gains in quality and efficiency have led to a growing interest in using Sievers* Total Organic Carbon (TOC) Analyzers for cleaning validation. Most ...

Description: Corrosion in boiler systems can quickly result in tube failure and plant shutdown. A properly-operating deaerator and an appropriate chemical program will greatly extend boiler life by addressing ...

Description: The monitoring, control, and optimization of organics in these applications are generally done using the Total Organic Carbon (TOC) method. The challenge then becomes finding a robust TOC analyzer ...

Description: The Sievers* 900 and 5310 C Series TOC Analyzers incorporate a number of new features and options designed toimprove the accuracy and linearity of the TOC measurements. Three new calibration options ...

Description: OCWD prides itself in not only using a cutting edge treatment system, but also utilizing analytical equipment to ensure the water being reintroduced into the ground is the highest quality. Monitoring ...

Description: As many municipalities strive to balance regulations set forth in the USEPA's Safe Drinking Water Act, they are growing more concerned about how to reduce spending in their plant treatment processes. ...

Description: TOC, an operator tool, spans a wide variety of applications, and is widely thought of as a tool to help a utility comply with DBP regulations, but it also assists with cost savings from optimizing a ...

Description: During the flooding, the Cobb County - Marietta Water Authority realized the importance of knowing more than just the turbidity levels in their source water. By identifying TOC values, the plant was ...

Description: Since purchasing the instruments, STS has successfully validated the Sievers InnovOx TOC Analyzers to the requirements of the Environment Agency's MCerts scheme for waste water analysis and the ...

Description: The food and beverage industry uses extraordinarily large amounts of water within their manufacturing processes. Water can be used as an ingredient, a cleaning solvent, and as a utility, such as for ...

Description: The first instrument requirement for the total organic carbon test detailed by the Japanese Pharmacopeia (JP) in the General Tests section <2.59> specifies that the instrument be capable of measuring ...

Description: Background Older generation online oil-in-water (OiW) monitors may suffer from fouling of optics due to scales, soaps, emulsions, sludge, etc., resulting in inaccurate (usually low) concentrations. ...

Description: In 2011, almost three times as many US FDA warning letters and FDA Form 483s were issued to pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturers compared to 2010. The companies receiving these citations ...

Description: The regulatory pressure on OEMs to reduce engine emissions will continue to increase well beyond the current Euro 6, US 10 and Tier 4 criteria. Exhaust pollutants such as particulate matter (PM) and ...

Description: The increasing concern about hydrocarbon contamination of process water and produced water has created an increasing need for in-situ, real time, and accurate low cost instrumentation that can provide ...

Description: Due to the non-availability of Freon, there is need for an alternative method to measure the concentration of hydrocarbons in the effluent today. Current methods use solvent extraction and IR analysis ...

Description: Water is one of the necessities of life, and water utilities must meet extremely demanding standards of reliability. They use only the highest quality, most reliable equipment - and in Mindanao, ...

Description: This presentation discusses the challenges of oil in water analysis. ...

Description: Alkalinity is calculated by the amount of acid needed to adjust the pH to ~4.5 in groundwater (and pH 4.2 in seawater). This is because the highest contributors to alkalinity are carbonate and ...