With over 200 installations across Ireland, Real Tech in partnership with Glan Agua, are helping to improve process control and drinking water quality. Simple and affordable real-time UV254 organics analyzers from Real Tech are enabling plants to rapidly detect organic fluctuations in raw…
PARAMETERS TO MEASURE IN THE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM Nitrite, nitrate, total chlorine, monochloramine, free chlorine, ammonia, TOC, pH, temperature OVERVIEW Nitrification events can be costly to remediate and harm your community’s trust in their water supply. Catching nitrification early and reliably lets you…
A paper recycling facility in Ontario, Canada, needed an effective solution for monitoring carbon content in the wastewater in real time for nutrient dosing optimization and process control purposes. The plant’s existing control strategy was to monitor COD by collecting…
PARAMETERS TO MEASURE FOR NUTRIENT DOSING IN WASTEWATER BOD, COD, TOC, TSS OVERVIEW Nutrient dosing in wastewater must be carefully controlled to ensure a favorable nutrient ratio is achieved, resulting in good quality effluent. Real-time online monitoring of organic loading…
PARAMETERS TO MEASURE FOR AERATION OPTIMIZATION BOD, COD, TSS, DO OVERVIEW A significant portion of a wastewater treatment plant’s energy costs are due to aeration operations (~45-75% of the total energy). The required aeration rate of a biological treatment system…
A water supplier in New York State uses the Real Tech Real Nitrate sensor to monitor finished water quality leaving the station to ensure compliance with drinking water standards for nitrate (NO3–) and provide feedback control to effectively blend multiple…
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, optimize the treatment processes, and take preventative actions to protect the source water…
SPECTROPHOTOMETRY OVERVIEW Spectrophotometry is a well-established analytical method, which has been used for decades in chemistry, physics, biochemistry, and chemical engineering for quantitative analyses. A light source and sensor are used to measure the intensity of light passing through a water sample…
Specific ultraviolet absorbance (SUVA) provides a general characterization of the nature of natural organic matter (NOM) in a water sample and is typically performed for the purpose of determining disinfection by-product (DBP) formation potential. SUVA is calculated by dividing the…
A pulp and paper mill in Louisiana, USA, was reliant on daily grab samples for detection of spill events which was found to be inadequate for proper management of the treatment processes. Real Tech proposed a customized solution that would…
