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In water testing, accuracy isn’t a luxury, it’s a baseline requirement. Whether you’re managing a municipal water supply, running a wastewater treatment facility, overseeing an industrial cooling system, or monitoring environmental conditions in the field, your decisions are only as sound as the data you base them on. Yet, inaccurate water test results are more…

Accurate and reliable wastewater testing is crucial for ensuring environmental compliance, safeguarding public health, and optimizing treatment processes. Wastewater treatment facilities play a vital role in managing water quality by removing contaminants before the treated water is released back into the environment or reused. Central to these efforts is the ability to monitor key water…

Why Measure Ozone in Water? Ozone (O3) treatment has become an important tool for water quality engineers. As new more stringent requirements from regulators and customers must be met, ozone is often the oxidizer and disinfectant of choice for a wide range of process applications. Ozonation is used for viral, bacterial, and parasitic disinfection, the…

What Is a Comparator? A comparator is a set of sealed ampoules containing color standards made of dye mixtures. These mixtures closely match the color (hue) and intensity of CHEMetrics test ampoules when the tips are snapped in solutions of corresponding analyte concentrations. By sealing the dyes in ampoules, we can more closely recreate the…

Food and beverage packaging takes many shapes and forms in today’s marketplace. To maintain grocery shelf-life and flavor quality, sophisticated packaging equipment processes and assembles these products, having evolved away from traditional bottling and canning methods. Systems of quality control in the food and beverage industry have become more sophisticated as well as companies have…

September 2022 Water Testing for Everyone As protecting the environment becomes an increasingly popular topic, more of us are wanting to get involved. When searching for ways to get involved many people think of litter clean up, recycling, and conservation efforts, but many may not be aware how they can make a difference by testing…

The Application of Oxidants in Seawater November 2021 Seawater Disinfection The disinfection of seawater is required for numerous applications, including desalination, ballast water, aquaculture, seawater pools/spas, and in cooling towers. Each application has specific considerations that are best met by a particular disinfectant, usually an oxidant. The oxidants include chlorine, bromine, chlorine dioxide, ozone, peracetic…

For the most up to date version of this article please visit the AquaPhoenix Blog Water Alkalinity The alkalinity of water is a measurement of its buffering capacity, which is its ability to neutralize acid or to resist acidification. In contrast, pH is a logarithmic scale for expressing Hydrogen (H+) ion concentration. A solution of…

What is DEHA? Dissolved oxygen in boiler system water causes corrosion and pitting of metal surfaces, which can lead to boiler inefficiency, equipment failure, and system downtime. N,N-Diethylhydroxylamine (C2H5)2NOH, or DEHA, is a volatile amine commonly used for oxygen scavenging in a variety of boiler systems. Hydrazine was once in widespread use as a boiler…