Process Optimization
Our online data and information can be continuously optimized and adapted to changing circumstances, thus reducing your process and manufacturing costs.
Commissioning of Newly Constructed Water Pipes
With new, underground drinking water pipelines, the cleanliness of the pipe must be ensured before backfilling the trench. To date, this is done by determining aerobic mesophilic bacteria (AMK), a process carried out in specialized laboratories and taking up 3 to 5 days. Construction work can only be completed once these AMK results are available.
The Online Bacteria Analyzer (OBA) allows the monitoring of the cleaning and flushing process at the inlet and outlet of the new drinking water line, and is completed once identical values are reached. Since the bacterial count is available every 20 minutes, the flushing process can be significantly shortened, thus reducing cleaning costs.
Water Treatment Plants
Continuous monitoring at the inlet and outlet of water treatment plants provides detailed information about the agreed-upon water quality.
If it falls outside the specifications, damage to the filter membranes for example can be prevented by automatically shutting off the supply line. With continuously measured data, the water quality is well documented.
Controls
Automated fermentation processes in the food industry require continuous monitoring of the microbiological concentrations.
Our technology allows the measurement of bacterial concentrations in biochemical processes at intervals of just a few minutes. The process can be precisely controlled by activating a dosing valve.
Monitoring of Process Water
The semiconductor industry requires ultrapure water (UPW) for the production of microprocessors, digital memory chips, flat panel displays, and thin-film transistors.
UPW is produced in reverse osmosis systems and free from impurities and ions that could compromise the delicate structures during the manufacturing process. The structures of such semiconductor chips - often below 10 nm - become increasingly smaller.
Even tiniest nanoparticles in process water might complicate the production processes, increase the number of defective parts and thus the cost per chip.
Despite removal of impurities and absence of nutrients in UPW, bacterial growth can still occur and impair the process quality. Our Online Bacteria Analyzer monitors the system 24/7 and detects any bacterial growth within minutes.
Commissioning of New Systems and Modules
New, industrial, multi-stage water treatment plants or newly replaced filter units undergo a commissioning phase. In addition to chemical and physical parameters, also the microbiological purity must be correct.
Direct measuring within the process with our OBA delivers precise results at intervals of a few minutes, thus reducing commissioning time and costs.
Monitoring of Incoming Water in Production
In numerous industrial plants, drinking water is used directly or after treatment in an on-site system. Fluctuations in the quality of incoming water can cause significant quality impairments, for example in cosmetics bottling plants, beverage filling systems or food processing facilities.
To prevent these quality irregularities, periodic
laboratory measurements are mandatory. However, it takes 3 to 5 days for the
microbiological AMK test results to be available. Often, the batch has
then already been producedand is simply
waiting for approval based on laboratory results before it can be shipped.
Should the laboratory results not meet the
requirements, the whole production batch must be disposed of. A continuously measured bacterial concentration using
our OBA makes exceedances of limit values visible within minutes; the
production can be stopped immediately. This reduces
production time, energy consumption and defective products.
