challenge

A global professional manufacturer of food enzymes, cultures, ingredients, and other products in the Netherlands has experienced continuous performance and maintenance issues with its online Total Organic Carbon (TOC) monitoring instrument. The monitoring instrument adopts high-temperature oxidation as the method for detecting organic matter in wastewater. Due to blockage, the instrument always has insufficient normal operating time. Years later, the company decided to look for other better monitoring solutions, which must have stronger reliability and longer normal operation time.

Solution

Sievers analyzer collaborated with local sales agents to install a Sievers * InnovOx TOC analyzer demonstration machine. This analyzer can protect and control the wastewater flow from yeast fermentation reactors and entering sewage treatment plants.

The InnovOx TOC analyzer developed by Sievers can continuously measure organic carbon with a wide concentration measurement range, from ultra pure saltwater to steam condensate and wastewater inlet and outlet. The advantages of InnovOx analyzer also include: powerful sample processing capability, professional supercritical water oxidation technology (SCWO), and easy operation and maintenance requirements. All of these have improved the performance of the analyzer in challenging applications and extended normal operating time.

The analyzer has completed 14 weeks of continuous operation. The factory also evaluated other methods and factors for controlling and improving the efficiency of wastewater treatment plants, but other TOC monitoring methods do not have ideal reliability.

After testing the InnovOx analyzer, the company found that it can improve reliability and extend normal operation time, making it an effective monitoring solution. Therefore, they have decided to immediately order this analyzer. Compared with similar devices, technical maintenance personnel highly praise the ease of use and low maintenance requirements of the InnovOx analyzer.

The standard configuration of InnovOx analyzer includes dual sample flow monitoring. When measuring the sample flow entering the wastewater treatment plant, users use the second sample flow function to monitor the effluent and optimize the treatment process. The second sample flow function can save users chemical usage, reduce maintenance workload, and minimize fines for violations, resulting in monthly savings of over 7000 euros.

result

The company is very satisfied with InnovOx monitoring solution. Due to the excellent performance of the InnovOx online TOC analyzer, another unit on the same site also ordered the analyzer in 2015. The above two orders are both due to the longer operating time of this type of analyzer, which can better control the wastewater treatment process and save costs by optimizing chemical consumption.