Nutrient Monitoring Systems for Long-Term Water Health

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Gain Water Quality Insights with Continuous Nutrient Monitoring

Continuous nutrient monitoring brings excellent visibility to diurnal load and flow changes as well as seasonal treatment challenges. Whether you need to determine what to measure or find the equipment that’s best for your nutrient monitoring process, Hach ® has answers. 

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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.

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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.

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Total Phosphorous

Measuring total phosphorous is key to compliance with standards set by governing bodies like NPDES and European Commission.

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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.

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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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Best in Class Solutions and Learnings

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BioTector B7000

Hach’s BioTector ® B7000 Analyzer is a great solution for monitoring changing nitrogen, phosphorus and organic loading to the treatment plant. 

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eLearning

Hach’s technology courses are building blocks for water quality professionals interested in expanding their expertise and proficiency in water quality analysis.

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Discover how Hach's lineup of instrumentation and technologies offer reliable, easy-to-use solutions for all of your Nutrient Monitoring needs so you get water analysis right the first time, every time.

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