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Water Quality Analysis for Chemical Manufacturers

 

With Hach® as your partner in the chemical manufacturing process, from water sampling and analysis to product loss monitoring and quality control, you can ensure confidence for the tough decisions.

 

Hach solutions for the chemical industry:

 

  • Online process instrumentation and reagents
  • Laboratory equipment, reagents, and supplies
  • The most EPA-approved water analysis methods for chemical industry water compliance and chemical manufacturing regulations
  • Portable test kits and field instruments
  • Automatic samplers and flow meters
  • Prepared media for microbiological testing
  • Local sales and service teams
  • Service partnership programs
  • Customized technical training programs

 

Steam Generation

We understand the importance of monitoring during
industrial pre-treatment and the steam cycle. It’s
the first line of defense against corrosion and iron
transport, scale, fouling and other factors that could
ultimately impair production efficiency or shorten
plant life. Maximize your output and protect your
equipment—from boiler and feedwater piping to
turbine blades and heat exchangers—with timely,
accurate measurement.

Parameters Relevant to
Boiler and Steam Processes:

cog icon   flask icon  Ammonia
        flask icon  Chloride
cog icon   flask icon  Conductivity/Total Dissolved Solids (TDS)
        flask icon  Copper
cog icon   flask icon  Dissolved Oxygen
cog icon   flask icon  Hydrazine/Oxygen Scavenger
cog icon   flask icon  Hydrogen
cog icon   flask icon  Iron
cog icon   flask icon  Oxidation-Reduction Potential
cog icon   flask icon  pH
cog icon   flask icon  Phosphate
cog icon   flask icon  Silica
cog icon   flask icon  Sodium
cog icon   flask icon  Total Organic Carbon (TOC)

How to Measure:

• 8362 sc High purity pH and ORP Sensor
• Orbisphere K1100/K1200 Oxygen Sensors
• Oxygen (LDO) Sensor
• 5500 sc Ammonia Monochloramine Analyzer
• NA5600sc Sodium Analyzers  
• 3700 Analog Inductive Conductivity Sensors
• 3400 Digital Contacting Conductivity Sensors
• 3400 Analog Contacting Conductivity Sensors
• B3500c BioTector TOC Analyzer

power plant boiler and thermal insulation steam piping
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Process solutions include online sensors that provide round-the-clock support for critical operational and process decision making.

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Laboratory solutions include simple, reliable and accurate tests that support quality and compliance decision making.

Cooling Processes

Boiler/cooling water leaving the condenser must
be closely monitored to guard against microbial
growth inside cooling towers. Ongoing measurement
also detects minute and fluctuating levels of
contaminants that can cause corrosion to piping,
condensers and dryers over time.

Parameters Relevant to
Cooling Processes:
        flask icon  Chloride
cog icon   flask icon  Chlorine/Oxidants
cog icon   flask icon  Chlorine Dioxide
cog icon   flask icon  Conductivity/Total Dissolved Solids (TDS)
        flask icon  Copper
cog icon   flask icon  Hardness/Alkalinity
        flask icon  Microbiology
cog icon   flask icon  Molybdate and Other Corrosion Inhibitors
cog icon   flask icon  Oxidation-Reduction Potential
cog icon   flask icon  Ozone
cog icon   flask icon  pH
cog icon   flask icon  Sodium

How to Measure:
• 8362 sc High purity pH and ORP Sensor
• Orbisphere K1100/K1200 Oxygen Sensors
• Oxygen (LDO) Sensor
• 5500 sc Ammonia Monochloramine Analyzer
• NA5600sc Sodium Analyzers 
• 3700 Analog Inductive Conductivity Sensors
• 3400 Digital Contacting Conductivity Sensors
• 3400 Analog Contacting Conductivity Sensors
• B3500c BioTector TOC Analyzer

power plant cooling tower
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Process solutions include online sensors that provide round-the-clock support for critical operational and process decision making.

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Laboratory solutions include simple, reliable and accurate tests that support quality and compliance decision making.

Industrial Wastewater

There are numerous benefits to monitoring key
wastewater treatment parameters: ensuring
compliance with chemical industry regulation;
avoiding permit violations; maximizing efficiency;
controlling costs ; and operating at the highest
possible levels of health and safety. Best of all,
tapping into a continuous stream of accurate data
enables you to make necessary process adjustments
well before a problem arises.

Parameters Relevant to
Industrial Wastewater:
        flask icon  Chloride
cog icon   flask icon  Chlorine
cog icon   flask icon  Chlorine Dioxide
cog icon   flask icon  Conductivity/Total Dissolved Solids (TDS)
cog icon   flask icon  Dissolved Oxygen
cog icon   flask icon  Hardness/Alkalinity
cog icon   flask icon  Hydrazine/Oxygen Scavenger
cog icon   flask icon  Oxidation-Reduction Potential
cog icon   flask icon  Ozone
cog icon   flask icon  pH
cog icon   flask icon  Silica
cog icon   flask icon  Sodium
cog icon   flask icon  Total Organic Carbon (TOC)
cog icon   flask icon  Turbidity and Total Suspended Solids (TSS)

How to Measure:
• BioTector B7000i TOC Analyzer
• BioTector B3500e TOC Analyzer
• AMTAX sc Ammonium Analyzer
• PHOSPHAX sc Phosphate Analyzer
• Differential pH Digital Sensors
• UVAS plus sc UV Probe Sensor
• LDO sc Luminescent Dissolved Oxygen Sensor
• Solitax sc Turbidity and Suspended Solids Probes
• Filtrax sample filtration system
• SC200 Multi-parameter Display Module
• Grab Samplers
• Portable Samplers

wastewater streaming from pipe into pond
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Process solutions include online sensors that provide round-the-clock support for critical operational and process decision making.

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Laboratory solutions include simple, reliable and accurate tests that support quality and compliance decision making.

 

 

 

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Success Stories and Application Notes

Success Stories

Effluent Organic Load Control Using Continuous TOC Monitoring

Portable Parallel Analyzer Reduces Processes, Improves Grab Sample Analysis Time by 75% Reliable

Continuous Silica Monitoring Supports Power Plant Efficiency

Application Notes

Monitoring Iron Transport in the Steam Cycle via Grab Sample and Online Methods

Optical Dissolved Oxygen Measurement in Power and Boiler Applications