Water & Wastewater Measurement Solutions
TOC, oil-in-water, turbidity, and elemental instruments for industrial water, treatment processes, wastewater, reuse, discharge, and laboratory analysis.
Measure changing water quality through treatment and discharge
Water and wastewater systems must manage variable influent, changing process conditions, organic loading, hydrocarbons, suspended material, treatment performance, reuse requirements, and discharge obligations. A useful measurement must be representative of the stream and maintainable under the actual water matrix.
Blue Dragon Technology supports online and laboratory applications for total organic carbon, oil-in-water, turbidity, and elemental composition. Application review considers solids, salinity, oil content, expected range, sample transport, cleaning, calibration, response time, installation environment, and the operational decision the result must support.
Measurement challenges in this industry
Organic loading
Measure total organic carbon to identify contamination, follow treatment performance, investigate process changes, and support water-quality control.
Oil contamination
Detect hydrocarbons in produced water, process water, wastewater, separation systems, and discharge-related streams.
Turbidity and suspended material
Track particulate changes across intake, clarification, filtration, treatment, reuse, and effluent processes.
Variable matrices
Account for salinity, solids, bubbles, color, chemical composition, fouling, and changing process conditions.
Representative sampling
Select an installation and sample-handling arrangement that provides timely, maintainable, and representative measurement.
Elemental screening
Use XRF where solids, filters, deposits, soil, or material samples require elemental characterization.
Typical process areas and streams
- Raw-water intake and pretreatment
- Industrial process-water and utility-water systems
- Primary, secondary, and tertiary wastewater treatment
- Oil-water separation and produced-water treatment
- Clarification, filtration, polishing, and reuse
- Discharge, receiving-water, and contamination investigations
- Plant, environmental, contract, and research laboratories
Applications used in this industry.
Total Organic Carbon Measurement
TOC measurement for water-quality control, contamination detection, treatment monitoring, process investigation, and laboratory analysis.
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Oil-in-Water Monitoring
Online oil-in-water measurement for produced water, process water, treatment systems, wastewater, and discharge-related monitoring.
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Turbidity & Suspended Solids Monitoring
Optical monitoring of turbidity and suspended-material changes across water treatment, process water, wastewater, reuse, and discharge systems.
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High-Purity Water TOC Monitoring
TOC measurement for purified, ultrapure, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, semiconductor, and controlled high-purity water systems.
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Elemental Composition Analysis
XRF measurement of elemental composition in metals, minerals, powders, solids, filters, soils, and prepared samples.
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Elemental Analysis & Materials Characterization
X-ray fluorescence instruments for elemental composition, material identification, quality control, field screening, and industrial laboratories.
Explore series →Water Quality & Organic Carbon Series
Online and laboratory analyzers for organic carbon, oil-in-water, turbidity, wastewater, and high-purity water measurement.
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Model C610OIW Online Oil-in-Water Analyzer
Online oil-in-water monitoring system for produced water, refinery and industrial wastewater, heavy-oil contamination, process trending, and alarm applications.
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Model C680 High-Temperature Combustion TOC Analyzer
Laboratory total organic carbon analyzer using 680 °C catalytic combustion, separate TC and IC reaction paths, manual microsyringe injection, and NDIR carbon-dioxide detection.
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Power Generation
Measurement systems for fuels, boiler and high-purity water, fired equipment, gas flow, materials, and conventional or nuclear generation.
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Pharmaceutical
Measurement solutions for purified and high-purity water, TOC monitoring, contamination investigations, materials screening, and quality laboratories.
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Fertilizers & Chemicals
Analytical and engineered measurement systems for feedstocks, process gases, reactors, utilities, effluent, flow, and material quality.
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Research & Industrial Laboratories
Flexible analytical instruments for water, organic carbon, elemental composition, material verification, method development, and quality control.
Explore →Industry questions.
Should a water application use an online or laboratory instrument?
Online measurement is useful for continuous process visibility and rapid response. Laboratory measurement supports controlled analysis, confirmation, investigation, and broader sample handling. Many facilities use both.
What information is required for a TOC application?
Provide the water type, expected range, suspended solids, salinity, temperature, sample pressure, treatment chemicals, required response time, installation location, and reporting objective.
How is oil-in-water measurement affected by the sample matrix?
Oil type, droplet distribution, suspended solids, surfactants, fluorescence response, sample handling, and calibration basis can affect suitability. The application must be tested against representative samples.
Can turbidity instruments operate in difficult wastewater?
Potentially, but optical path, fouling, bubbles, solids loading, cleaning, mounting, and calibration must be reviewed against the actual stream.
Discuss your water or wastewater measurement requirement.
Share the water type, source and measurement point, expected range, solids and oil content, salinity, process conditions, cleaning needs, installation, and reporting objective.