Equipment for monitoring heavy metals in waters, effluents and industrial processes

Kurzfassung

A small Norwegian company has developed, designed, produced and field-tested an advanced new methodology for remote, unmanned and automatic monitoring of heavy metals in waters, effluents and in industrial processes. The advantages of using the equipment are due to financial reasons, and also to having improved methods enabling to act immediately in case of errors and illegal activities. The Norwegian company is searching for an industrial partner.

Details

The technology offer contains a description of a basic system to measure heavy metals voltammetrically using patented solid electrodes with alloys specially developed by the company. The system is a bench model that does not include any unit for automation, but an automatic system for remote and automatic monitoring of heavy metals. More complete systems - such as field stations - can additionally be supplied with other sensors for automatic monitoring of parameters like pH, conductivity, water level, etc. The basic system can also be supplied with programmes for following up, maintenance and training. The Norwegian company is the only company in the world to offer systems for remote monitoring of heavy metals. Contractors that want to participate in tenders for remote monitoring systems can be granted the Norwegian company’s supply of units for remote monitoring heavy metals. This can be done exclusively or non-exclusively according to agreement.

Innovative Aspects:
Innovative Aspects of the Offer
There are very limited possibilities to perform remote monitoring of waters and effluents. The available methods are restricted to be useful to measure simple parameters like electrical conductivity, pH values, turbidity and temperature. If technically possible, the advantages of doing more comprehensive measurements with other important parameters are obvious. This is not on only due to financial reasons, but also to having improved methods enabling users to act immediately in case of errors and illegal activities. An additional advantage is that the results can be made available immediately on the Internet for the general public. Obviously, quality assurance of the results from the remote systems is crucial. Bringing samples to laboratories for control measurements can do this. A practical way is then to combine such sampling with regular maintenance.


Main advantages of the Offer
Monitoring of environmental parameters is in general carried out with field sampling followed by analyses in a laboratory.
There are very limited possibilities to perform remote and automatic monitoring of waters and effluents. The available methods are restricted to be useful to measure simple parameters like electrical conductivity, pH values, turbidity and temperature only.
The advantages by doing more comprehensive measurements with other important parameters are obvious. This is not on only due to financial reasons, but also to having improved methods enabling users to act immediately in case of errors and illegal activities. An additional advantage is that the results can be made available immediately on the Internet for the general public.