Instrumentation and Monitoring

Turbidity is regularly measured at water treatment plants on both compliance and process control samples using hand-held or benchtop turbidimeters. It is...

The Robert A. Harris Water Filtration Plant keeps adding to its history of low finished-water turbidity. The latest milestone is the 2015...

Drought. You wouldn’t call it a blessing in disguise, but it may have a positive side.That’s becoming evident at Wichita Falls, Texas,...

The secondary clarifier is a vital part of every wastewater treatment plant. Its health is determined by upstream variables and the mechanical...

HEMCO Corporation Environmentally Controlled Enclosures The ModuLab from HEMCO Corporation incorporates HEPA filtration to regulate air quality from Class 1,000 to 100,000. Precise temperature control...

The team at the Joseph Donovan Regional Water Treatment Plant is serious about source water protection. Their efforts have helped make the...

For many years, employees at Marshalltown  (Iowa) Water Works were used to doing things a certain way. The Partnership for Safe Water...

YSI, a Xylem brand, introduced the Pro20i hand-held dissolved oxygen (DO) meter and the ProSample Series of fully automated, lightweight portable samplers...

WWEMA/Boenning Leading Demand Index builds momentum The Water and Wastewater Equipment Manufacturers Association and Boenning & Scattergood released the 2016 third quarter WWEMA/Boenning...

Endress+Hauser Analytical Transmitter The Liquiline CM44P multichannel analyzer transmitter from Endress+Hauser can simultaneously measure 16 parameters and transmit them via 4-20mA, HART, Profibus,...

A new high-tech research vessel is helping wastewater professionals improve the safety, scope and efficiency of water-quality monitoring efforts in Washington’s Puget...

The Reclaimed Water Facility at the University of Connecticut sits right between two other critical utility plants on the campus.It receives secondary...

What’s it like to have a six-point bull elk standing on the front steps of your treatment plant? Or to see his...

I have seen many changes during my wastewater career, now extending beyond 30 years.SCADA systems and associated instrumentation have really taken hold...

The SL1000 portable parallel analyzer (PPA) from Hach is designed to quickly and consistently test multiple parameters in drinking water systems. The...

Often more economical than other mass flow meters, thermal instruments have become extremely popular because of their ability to measure very low...

Santa Cruz Wastewater Treatment Facility, located in Santa Cruz, California, generates most of its own electric power by using internal combustion engines that...