Featured Articles
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How One Plant Found Great Service Through Turbidity Analyzers
10/3/2016
The nearly 16,000 people in Calhoun, GA, rely on two drinking water treatment facilities — one that pulls its water from a river and another that pulls from groundwater — that process about 9 MGD. The turbidity of the river’s water can fluctuate dramatically, so the operators rely on the surface water treatment plant’s turbidity analyzers to ensure that they are serving the population as they should.
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Case Study: Newport News Uses Emerson Ozone Instrumentation For Safe, Effective Disinfection
5/22/2006
Maintaining the quality of the water supply is the top priority for municipal drinking water treatment plants across the country. Water plants use several treatment processes to ensure water quality and safety, and these treatment steps include disinfection. Traditionally, chlorine is used in both primary and secondary disinfection treatments and has been used since 1908. Some water plants are moving to ozone for primary disinfection. One water utility that is taking this direction is Newport News Waterworks.
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Application Note: Ozone Measurement In Potable Water
3/1/2010
Ozone is a powerful oxidizing agent that can be used to destroy the organic compounds that affect the taste and odor of potable water. Environmental concerns have led to increased use of ozone because, unlike chlorine, it does not form hazardous by-products.
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Avoiding The Deadly Legacy Of Hydrogen Sulfide
7/25/2018
Workplace fatalities are devastating to families, friends, and employers alike, and they are especially tragic when resulting from a preventable incident. Whether it be a lapse in safety judgement, a lack of proper monitoring equipment and protocol, or the pervasiveness of human error, employers must always be attentive to factors that could lead to severe worker injuries or death.
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Point Versus Continuous Level Measuring Technologies
11/7/2017
While point level measuring approaches are regarded as simple and user friendly, they lack the capabilities of more sophisticated continuous measuring instruments.
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Primary Wastewater Treatment: Influent Monitoring
11/10/2013
The raw sewage entering a wastewater treatment plant comes from a variety of sources. In addition to effluent from domestic users, effluent from industrial users and storm water run off can be present.
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The Integral AutoCal For 6888 InSitu Oxygen Probe Demo
11/10/2014
Doug Simmers, Product Manager, talks about the 6888 In-Situ Flue Gas Oxygen Analyzer and the Integral AutoCal feature.
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SMART pH Sensors And Instruments For Plug And Play Use
2/27/2013
Linda Meyers explains how SMART pH sensors and instruments help customers solve challenges like calibrating sensors in remote locations where buffer solutions, beakers, and a rinse bottle must all be carried on site, making it cumbersome and time consuming.
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Loop Calibration Made Easy
1/29/2013
The 56 advanced analyzer supports continuous measurement of analytical inputs from one or two sensors. The modular design allows signal input boards to be field replaced, making configuration changes easy. The high resolution full-color display gives unsurpassed visibility and functionality for analytical instrumentation.
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Utah Water District Saves Time And Resources, Improves Accuracy By Upgrading Sensors And Analyzers
7/20/2015
Monitoring chlorine and fluoride levels in the drinking water of Utah’s Taylorsville-Bennion Improvement District used to be expensive, labor intensive, and often sensitive to interference from the variable frequency drives used to operate the chlorine injection pumps. That is, until the district upgraded to Rosemount free chlorine and fluoride sensors and analyzers from Emerson.