Continuous Monitoring Instrument Articles

Validation of Salt Water Disposal Well Treatment Plants with Handheld Oil in Water Sample Analyzer

Salt Water Disposal (SWD) well operators often dispose a substantial volume of oil inadvertently when injecting salt water, thereby losing the opportunity to sell the oil on the market and potentially reducing the ability to inject water in the well. Injection facilities are typically operated with minimal instrumentation or system optimization, which means the operators don't know how much, or ...

Jan. 15, 2018

By Turner Designs Hydrocarbon Instruments, Inc.

Tekran instruments—monitoring around the world

Tekran provides trace-level mercury analytical and monitoring technology for a variety of applications including laboratory-based sample analysis, continuous point-source emissions and ambient air monitoring. This article focuses on and highlights the results of an application of Tekran’s Ambient Air Mercury Speciation System. In contrast to most other heavy metals, mercury (Hg) and mercury ...

Feb. 15, 2012

By Tekran Instruments Corporation

Continuous Emissions Monitoring Equipment – Guidance & Selection

There has never been such a wide range of analysers and systems available for continuous emissions monitoring as there is today. In the UK there are over 12 manufacturers and distributors offering CEMS (continuous emissions monitoring systems) using a variety of technologies including UV and IR absorption, FTIR, DOAS, chemiluminescence and photoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS). The majority of CEMS ...

Jan. 1, 2001

By Enviro Technology Services Ltd

Case study - Continuous discharge monitoring in Mecklenburg - Germany

The Wallensteingraben was originally constructed as a channel and is almost 20 km long. In the context of implementing the European Water Framework Directive, goals include improving ecological passability. At the same time a measurement site for the continuous monitoring of discharge quantities was installed. Products used include OTT SLD, OTT CBS and OTT LogoSens. Monitoring ...

Jan. 18, 2017

By The OTT Hydromet Group

Continuous Mercury Monitoring Benefits Cement Plants

Antti Heikkilä from Gasmet Technologies highlights the challenges faced by mercury monitoring in cement kilns, and explains how a new continuous mercury monitoring system addresses these issues and provides process operators with an opportunity to improve environmental performance and demonstrate compliance with forthcoming legislation. Background The production of cement ...

May 13, 2014

By Gasmet Technologies Oy

Continuous monitoring of moisture present inside a process chamber

Problem Statement Moisture inside a process chamber is a big silent killer during wafer production. When production yield goes down, it is hard to pinpoint the source of the problem. Most of the time wafers need to be sent to labs for analysis, while production is stopped. If the problem is related to a high level of moisture inside the reactor, there are several factors that can cause ...

May 1, 2013

By CIC Photonics, Inc.

Continuous, Centralized Monitoring Drives O&M Optimization

In a survey conducted by Wind Energy Update this year, 80% of wind turbine owners indicated they take either a predictive or preventative approach to maintenance. Furthermore, 77% indicated that they deploy Condition Monitoring Systems (CMS). “If you can leverage data to increase plant performance by even 1%, you are looking at significant impacts to your revenue”, EDF’s ...

Jun. 3, 2015

By Wind Energy Update - part of the FC Business Intelligence Ltd group

Pneumatic Focusing Gas Chromatography: A 3-in-1 Continuous, Automated, Ambient-Fence line-Fugitive Emissions Instrument

This project involved design improvements in both software and hardware, and commercialization of our Pneumatic Focusing Gas Chromatography technology for continuous monitoring of VOCs and Air Toxics and demonstration of its performance in year-long monitoring programs at an EPA Superfund site in Fargo North Dakota and an Oregon Department of Environmental Quality Air Toxics site in Portland ...

Feb. 24, 2010

By VOC Technologies

Why is there no effective real-time Continuous Radiation Monitoring System?

Japan's disaster has raised many questions regarding safety of the public. It has served as a wakeup call to the agencies tasked with protecting the public. Not least of these questions, but certainly the most far-reaching is the question of the safety of nuclear power and radiation contamination of air and water. Way back when nuclear power was first established, in the 1960s public opinion was ...

Apr. 11, 2011

By Technical Associates

Radiation Water Monitor in Real-Time and Continuous at Jefferson NL 2006

Jefferson National Laboratory is a high tech laboratory located on a beautiful campus in suburban Virginia. Their research is centered on their high-energy electron accelerator. Energies generated are as high as 6 Gev continuous with currents up to 200 micro Amps. Where does the high-energy accelerator beam go after smashing atoms in the experimental sample? It impacts into a tank of purified ...

Jan. 8, 2006

By Technical Associates

TDLAS Gas Detection Instrumentation

PKL Technologies Inc. manufactures tunable diode laser (TDLAS) based gas detectors and monitors. Spectra-1 open path gas sensors are used in a variety of environmental and safety remote sensing applications. Spectra-1 gas sensors have been designed in a compact, easy to use, robust and portable format. Spectra-1 has been developed using proprietary hardware and software, to produce a low cost ...

Oct. 24, 2011

By PKL Technologies Inc.

Continuous Oxygen Monitor Detects Leaks in Nitrogen Dewar Storage

Extremely low maintenance oxygen (O2) monitor designed to continuously monitor confined spaces for low oxygen levels available from PureAire Oxygen Monitors. PureAire Oxygen Monitor is suitable in all environments containing nitrogen, helium, argon, or any cryogenic gases. PureAire is unaffected by temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, or any environmental changes. The instrument displays ...

Aug. 28, 2011

By PureAire Monitoring Systems, Inc

Instrument air case study

Application Moisture is measured in instrument air to ensure that the air is properly dried. Problem Instrument air is used through-out a facility to protect delicate electronics, instruments, and to operate key process actuators. Many instruments also use instrument air to operate various pneumatic operators they might possess. Too frequently, there is ...

Nov. 24, 2014

By Ametek Process Instruments - THERMOX

Portable Monitoring Instruments Solve Flow Rate Mystery - Case Study

The Glen Walter Sewage Collection System was built to service 1080 customers in 1989. At the time the population was 850 but by 1995 the sewage treatment plant had already reached capacity. Shawn Killoran took over the Operations Manger position in 1999 and, along with the Mayor and Council, he immediately had concerns about the excess flow. The Township started by video taping all of the lines ...

Jul. 31, 2012

By Greyline Instruments Inc.

Different technology options for monitoring oil in produced water – inline continuous monitoring and IR analysis

No offshore facility wants to be caught with a sheen around their platform as that can result in a costly fine for exceeding discharge permit limits for oil. Onboard oil in water analyzers are necessary to ensure the oil/water separation systems are functioning properly before overboard disposal of the produced water. Bench top analyzers have traditionally been used to test oil in water although ...

Apr. 22, 2014

By Spectro Scientific

Understanding Oil-in-Water Instrument Specifications

The measurement capabilities of oil-in-water analysis methods are described by several analytical figures-of-merit. Examples are: Range (Linear and Dynamic) Limit of Detection (LOD) Limit of Quantification (LOQ) Precision (Repeatability and Reproducibility) Sensitivity Accuracy Response Time Some or all of these are often specified by customers in the bid packages issued when selecting a ...

Jan. 18, 2011

By Turner Designs Hydrocarbon Instruments, Inc.

Continuous Real Time Water Monitoring for Radiation Safety Terrorist Attack, Improper Disposal of Industrial Waste, Accidental Discharge

Safe drinking water is essential to life on earth. Unfortunately, this vast infrastructure suffers from critical vulnerability. Keeping America safe with continuous real time water monitoring is a vital goal and is currently being addressed for biological and chemical risks. For monitoring of radionuclides in drinking water as recommended in the Safe Drinking Water Act 8, the Clean Water Act 9, ...

Sep. 22, 2009

By Technical Associates

Suez Sita Donzère - Continuous monitoring of odors in correlation with the perception of local residents case study

The site Non-hazardous waste storage center In operation since 1987, at Donzere, France 150.000 tons of waste processed each year 15 ha in use out of a total of 30 ha ISO 14 001 certified Challenges Dynamic odor map To identify odor sources To better understand the mechanisms ...

Jul. 23, 2013

By Alpha MOS Environment

Open Channel Flow Monitors retired after 16 years continuous service - Case Study

Long Sault WWTP Influent Flow Monitors Greyline Open Channel Flow Monitors were installed at the Wastewater Treatment Plant in Long Sault, Ontario when the SBR plant was originally commissioned in 1995. But after 16 years of continuous service, components for the old models became obsolete. Plant operators Caneau Water and Sewage Inc. decided to replace the instruments and new Greyline OCF ...

Aug. 11, 2017

By Greyline Instruments Inc.

10 Reasons why you should continuously monitor low temperature and liquid chemical sterilants for worker safety

1. Sterilant chemicals are highly toxic Low temperature and liquid chemical sterilants are designed to kill all microorganisms including resistant spores and if they were not toxic, they would not be effective in sufficiently high concentration to destroy all microbial life including the chemically resistant sporicidal forms of certain ...

Jan. 12, 2017

By ChemDAQ, Inc.

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