Phosphates
Measuring phosphates in wastewater effluent is critical to water quality monitoring and protecting freshwater ecosystems. Many areas have strict discharge limits for phosphates to protect the ecosystems that receive this water.
Protect ecosystems, avoid violations, fines and control erosion with phosphate monitoring solutions from Hach. Our Real Time Control (RTC) nutrient monitoring systems adjusts treatment processes in real-time to optimize chemical phosphorous removal, nitrification and nitrogen elimination and even sludge thickening and dewatering.
Orthophosphorous
Phosphorous appears in wastewater in many forms including as orthophosphates, which are reactive. Orthophosphates can be measured in real time and provide insight into total phosphorus.
Total Phosphorous
Measuring total phosphorous is key to compliance with standards set by governing bodies like NPDES and Europa.
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Nitrogen
Monitoring for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, organic nitrogen and total nitrogen in real-time provides key loading and fast process information to help predict issues early and maintain compliance.
Optimizing treatment for various forms of nitrogen is key for effluent compliance and biological treatment process control.
Nitrate & Nitrite
Nitrate and nitrite pose challenges when trying to maintain effluent total nitrogen limits. Understanding the concentrations of each individually or combined can provide insights into disinfection issues, biological phosphorus problems and increased effluent TSS or turbidity. When concentrations are adequately monitored and managed, nitrite and nitrate play an important role in many industrial and municipal water quality monitoring programs.
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Ammonia
Maintaining smooth and consistent nitrification for aerobic removal of ammonia can be rocky when conditions are constantly changing. Influent ammonia and flow changes can happen by the minute and manual adjustments can leave the process unstable. Understanding the changing factors that affect nitrification and proactively making changes is key to keeping a stable process and being one step ahead of issues.
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Total Nitrogen & Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen
Nitrogen exists in the environment in many forms and changes forms as it moves through the nitrogen cycle. A variety of methods can be used to test the different forms of nitrogen.
Influent total nitrogen monitoring is an excellent way to gain real time information on nitrogen load concentrations coming to the plant diurnally and seasonally. Understanding when loads change can help identify treatment inconsistency and potential process optimization, particularly when paired with process and effluent online monitoring.
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