Easy and Cost-efficient OnLine Monitoring for water treatment plants - DI Andreas Weingartner

Online spectrometry has found its way into the monitoring and management of modern water treatment plants. Since s::can introduced this method to the water market 6 years ago, more than 800 instruments are already in place, and other manufacturers are trying their first steps in the technology today. Despite the short timespan since the advent of the new method, it is becoming increasingly evident that online spectrometry will replace many of the classical analysers for organics like COD or TOC, as well as for Nitrate, Nitrate, TSS, and other parameters, mostly because of it’s cost-efficiency, reliability, and low operational costs.

Triggered by the potential to operate i.e. a Nitrate-sensor for many months without touching it, the challenge arose for the rest of the measuring system to achieve comparable maintenance-free periods. Following this, homogeneous maintenance intervals and service plans can be set up, crucial for the cost efficient operation of a modern plant. With a new optical O2-analyser - the oxi::lyser – as well as a new Ammonium-Analyser - the ammo::lyser - s::can completes the range of intelligent, low maintenance sensors, and integrates them in an easy-to-use and cost-efficient digital environment.