Pollution & Process Monitoring (PPM) has supplied two water quality monitoring stations to a waste-to-energy facility in the NE of England.
The large industrial complex accommodates more than ten separate manufacturing companies, supplying a diverse range of speciality chemicals and industrial products. All of the firms discharge surface water and process waste streams to a common site drainage system requiring them to individually monitor their own discharges.
For the new waste-to-energy facility, PPM was tasked by the main contractor to fabricate two dedicated aqueous monitoring stations; one for the incinerator plant and another for a separate ash plant.
PPM supplied the monitoring station at the incinerator plant in 2016. It comprises a small GRP kiosk which includes lighting, frost protection, electrical sub-systems and sample distribution (the internal pipework transferring the incoming sample from a sample pump and piping it to each analyser). PPM said pre-installation work simplified the site installation and the time required to commission the monitoring system. The analysers comprise the Protoc 300 TOC with paper band filtration system, which has been used throughout the industrial complex for many years. Additionally, pH and temperature measurement capabilities were included to allow these parameters to be continuously monitored.
In 2017, PPM engineered a large walk-in analyser kiosk to continuously monitor surface water run-off from the ash plant. This location needed a larger kiosk, to house the Protoc TOC analyser with sample preparation system, the pH/temperature meter, and a Proam ammonia monitor – an on-line analyser capable of measuring ammoniacal nitrogen in real time.
Continuous water quality measurement lets you identify non-compliance and implement control strategies in real time, an advance on discrete sampling and off-site analysis, which can only provide historical data.
The analyser displays a reading of concentration data and this data is also output to telemetry, allowing real time data capture and control of surface water or effluent streams.
The Protoc TOC and Proam ammonia analysers are used extensively throughout industry for a diverse range of process, effluent and surface water monitoring applications.
