Well Monitoring Applications on Environmental XPRT

Well monitoring

By ESP, Environmental Service Products based in Rockledge, FLORIDA (USA).

Video Inspection of Monitoring Wells

GeoVISION borehole video camera systems are used to visually inspect monitoring wells.

By Allegheny Instruments, Inc. based in Monterey, VIRGINIA (USA).

Continuous sampling of groundwater wells

By Argus-Hazco based in Chesterfield, MICHIGAN (USA).

Monitoring Well Inspection With 3/4-inch Video Camera

Allegheny Instrument's Nano downhole camera is used to visually inspect groundwater monitoring wells from 1-inch diameter and larger to depths of 1,000 feet with the Heavy Duty hand reel system and depths of 2,000 feet with the Deluxe motorized winch.

By Allegheny Instruments, Inc. based in Monterey, VIRGINIA (USA).

Data analysis and visualization tools for monitoring well decommissioning

Contaminated groundwater sites worldwide are engaged in regular sampling of monitoring wells at a typical cost of $1,500 per well-sampling event. On most sites, many wells are redundant or geostatistically insignificant and can be decommissioned.
EVS-PRO and MVS`s Well Decommission module analyses all available data and quantifies the impact on site assessment quality associated with removing each well. The impact of removing a well is quantified in terms of its impact on the geostatistical plume extent.
During remediation plumes are shrinking and may drift. This can necessitate decommissioning of some wells and adding new wells. C Tech`s well decommissioning and DrillGuide© technology provide the tools to properly monitor and guide the remediation efforts at the lowest possible cost.

By C Tech Development Corporation based in Las Vegas, NEVADA (USA).

Environmental Monitoring

Environmental monitoring is becoming more important every day in local, national and international policies, showing the environmental awareness demanded by society.

This fact gives rise to an increase in the amount of legislation that obliges companies to law enforcement. Thus, the necessity of making more pollutants controls means high analysis expenses to the companies, which need to subcontract this service.

Although applications in this area advance, there is still a clear demand to get new portable and versatile analysis systems for many different application fields such as pollution in environmental or waste waters, monitoring nutrients in agricultural or horticultural water as well as general process control in chemistry industry. Because of the number of enviromental analysis required, there is a need for screening and monitoring measurements of these compounds at contaminated areas.

Traditional monitoring techniques are typically based on laboratory analysis of field-collected samples that require considerable effort and expense, and the sample may change before analysis. Moreover, the equipment currently available is too large and expensive and it cannot be made portable.Alternatively, microfluidic and electrochemical sensor technologies can contribute to the development of new portable monitoring systems, complementing standard analytical methods for different environmental monitoring applications.In this way, the decentralization and integration of all those typical analyses is the paramount importance in order to reduce cost, simplify the analytical process and make more accessible these technologies to end-users. The development of portable, robust, and accurate Lab-on-a-Chip systems to monitor priority compounds such as contaminants, explosives, chemical warfare agents, inorganic and organic ions is a demand of modern society. Portability allows analyses to be carried out outside of the laboratory, minimizing the risk of contaminating the sample and leading to a faster response time at a lower cost.

Thus, MicruX solutions and technologies open the gate to develop portable and esay-handly Lab-on-a-Chip devices in order to improve pollutants in-situ analysis in a very economic and efficient way.

By MicruX Technologies based in Oviedo, SPAIN.

Oil skimmers for montoring wells industry

Ambar manufactures a specific oil skimmer for sub surface remediation where oil needs to be removed from ground water monitoring wells.

By Ambar Oil Skimmers based in Westwego, LOUISIANA (USA).

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Monitoring solutions for the process monitoring

Maintain specification in your process stream or bench top setup with a Cerex process analyzer. Cerex UV3000 F Series analyzers accurately detect gases from ppb level to percent level concentrations via a fiber coupled probe for precise control of a process stream. The F series are also well suited to fiber couple to a custom cell for laboratory analysis, and feature user programmable alarm levels to control process functions or give warning when a process filter needs replacement. Cerex analyzers are also available customized to customer specification.

By Cerex Monitoring Solutions, LLC. based in Atlanta, GEORGIA (US) (USA).

Dust monitoring and Sand Storm Monitoring

The frequency and intensity of dust and sand storms in many parts of the world are steadily increasing due to droughts and climate change. The severity of such storms is anticipated to increase over the coming years. These dust storms may last hours or days and cause huge damage and imposed a heavy toll on society with its physical effects, such as visibility reduction, heavy winds, red sky, hailstone and severe lightning. Such Dust storms, have a negative impact on human health, and industrial products and activities. They reduce visibility, layer on skin and cloths, infiltrate buildings and find their way into food and drinking water leaving a permanent sandy feeling in your mouth. Traditional dust monitoring instruments whether they be purely filter based gravimetric samplers or continuous monitors utilising Tapered Element Oscillating Microbalance (TEOM) or Beta Attenuation (BAM) simply are unable to cope with the high dust loads created by these storms. The filters on these instruments are quickly clogged and no further measurements are possible until a service technician visits to replace filters and filter tapes. In dust storm events this is impossible. Therefore, over the past few years a need for alternate technology which are non filter based, can cope with extremely high dust loads, require minimal maintenance and can operate off solar power has been employed in regions such as the Gobi Desert of China for the continuous monitoring of dust storm events. These instruments have demonstrated that an instrument can measure dust storm events with maintenance performed only once every 12 months. That it is possible to communicate remotely and that these systems can not only provide an early warning for dust events but have the accuracy and sensitivity to be an extremely useful tool in gauging hourly changes of visibility. Infact such instruments have been utilised by a number of EPAs around the world, including all Australian EPAs for the purpose of measuring ambient visibility as well as providing an accurate indication of rising dust events.

By Ecotech Pty Ltd based in Knoxfield, AUSTRALIA.

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Algae monitoring of drinking water reservoir -

Due to green algae problems in the water reservoir of a drinking water treatment plant, the ALGcontrol was installed to continuously monitor the algae concentrations and possible toxic blue green algae blooms. During almost 4 months the ALGcontrol measured the total chlorophyll and cyano chlorophyll concentrations of the water reservoir. In order to be able to compare these results, second off-line controls were carried out using the ISO 10260 chlorophyll-a quantification (extraction into ethanol, spectrophotometric detection at 665 and 750 nm). The results of the off-line standard lab method show a good correlation with the measurements of the ALGcontrol. The good correlation can be verified as well at high as at low concentrations of total chlorophyll.

By microLAN B.V. based in Waalwijk, NETHERLANDS.

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Emissions Monitoring for Mining / Emissions Monitoring for Smelting

The Opsis monitoring solution for mining and smelting applications is based on either DOAS or laser diode technique. Opsis non-contact monitoring solutions are very well suited for applications in the Mining and Smelting Industries, as the flue gas conditions often involves high temperatures and high dust concentrations. The on-line, open-path systems are used for monitoring HF, sulphur dioxide, SO3 and HCl in potrooms, in fence-line applications and in continuous emissions monitoring.

By Opsis AB based in Furulund, SWEDEN.

Soil monitoring for laboratories

Soil monitoring is used to facilitate the selection of fertilizer composition and dosage for land employed in agricultural as well as horticultural industries.

By GE Healthcare UK Limited based in Little Chalfont, UNITED KINGDOM.

Oil in Water Monitoring

Detection of hydrocarbons within both water sources and effluent intake to Waste Water Treatment Works is an increasing requirement. The UviLux Hydrocarbon fluorometer detects hydrocarbons in water at very low concentrations. This in-situ fluorometer provides a rugged sensor which can be deployed in a wide variety of configurations. The UviLux is part of the Lux range of CTG fluorometers, and can be provided with a number of options with regard to signal protocols, and has available accessories to enable in-flow monitoring as well as inclusion within portable systems for taking measurements in the field.

By Chelsea Technologies Group based in West Molesey, UNITED KINGDOM.

Real-time In-situ Effluent Monitoring

The UviLux BOD Indicator enables in-situ, real-time, reporting of BOD within both natural water systems and water processing plants. The monitor detects fluorescent proteins that are inherent within sewage and slurry and provides an output in BOD equivalent units. The principle behind the measurement is the excitation of Tryptophan-like fluorescence within UV wavelength band, which has been shown to correlate with both BOD and bacterial contamination. With complete flexibility of deployment methodology, the UviLux BOD Indicator can be applied to both water supply and water recovery processing plants. For water supply processing, the UviLux BOD Indicator can be applied at the front end to the water intake to provide alarm of any contaminated water entering the plant. Applications within Waste Water Treatment Works can include monitoring of effluent levels at the final outflow point (into rivers and coastal areas) as well as the primary, secondary & tertiary stages, the data potentially feeding into energy saving systems to optimise process performances. The CTG UviLux BOD Indicator in-situ fluorometer can also be used within pipe and channel networks to test for incidences of black water and grey water cross-over.

By Chelsea Technologies Group based in West Molesey, UNITED KINGDOM.

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Environmental radiation monitoring

Every day, wherever we go, we are exposed to minute amounts of environmental radiation.* This environmental radiation is emitted continuously, day and night, from various objects and substances in the natural world and our living environment.

Most environmental radiation consists of three types: alpha rays (α), beta rays (β) and gamma rays (γ). HORIBA`s PA-1000 `Radi` environmental radiation monitor makes it easy for non-specialists to measure even minute levels of gamma rays.

* Environmental radiation, also known as natural radiation, includes radiation emitted from space, soil, stones, the ground and the air, as well as from manmade objects such as concrete and buildings

By HORIBA Europe GmbH based in Leichlingen, GERMANY.

Total Sulfur monitoring

Total Sulfur includes all the gases described within total reduced sulfur, as well as sulfur dioxide as these compounds are oxidised forms of sulfur. Exposure to sulfur dioxides, and other reduced sulfur based compounds can cause many harmful effects in humans including headaches, general discomfort up to death in large doses. Those with impaired heart or lung function and asthmatics are at increased risk. Sulfur dioxide, one of the major pollutants, is absorbed by soils and plants and captured within and below clouds and in certain circumstances can increase the acidity of rain.

By Ecotech Pty Ltd based in Knoxfield, AUSTRALIA.

Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) monitoring

Hydrogen sulfide is the chemical compound with the formula H2S. H2S is colorless, toxic and flammable and is responsible for the foul odour of rotten eggs and flatulence. Hydrogen sulfide often results from sulfur reducing bacteria in nonorganic matter (in the absence of oxygen), such as in swamps and sewers (anaerobic digestion). H2S also occurs in volcanic gases, natural gas and some well waters.

By Ecotech Pty Ltd based in Knoxfield, AUSTRALIA.

Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) monitoring

Oxides of Nitrogen (NO/NO2/NOX) is the product of endothermic reactions within combustion engines and causes significant environmental pollution. The main source of NOX is from the engine of automobiles and these pollutants are harmful to humans in their respective forms or in the creation of ozone (O3) or acid rain. NOX is most prevalent in our societies as a contributor to asthmatic conditions as well as the photochemical smog found throughout many industrialized cities.

By Ecotech Pty Ltd based in Knoxfield, AUSTRALIA.

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Continuous Metals Stack Monitor (CEMs)

Cooper Environmental's Xact® 640 has the unique ability to generate high time resolution metals measurement in stacks. This unique capability has the potential to qualify as a substitution for the combination of a Hg/ PM CEMs application as well as the potential for a pollution control system feedback loop that could result in the reduction of pollution control consumables. Our systems have been site certified for compliance measurements at hazardous waste incinerator and secondary lead smelter sites.

By Cooper Environmental Services based in Beaverton, OREGON (USA).

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Monitoring of phenol in water

The Situation

A plant located in the eastern United States manufactures phenolic resin for applications in plastics molding. This plant uses well water for cooling its reaction process and then discharges the water into a local creek.

By Turner Designs Hydrocarbon Instruments, Inc. based in Fresno, CALIFORNIA (USA).

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