Industrial Water Interceptor Flow and pH Monitoring

RS Hydro were approached to monitor water flow and pH flowing through two interceptors, within a cereal production facility based in the UK.

Equipment Used

• Teledyne ISCO DuraTracker EX with AV350EX area-velocity sensor
• Eureka Manta water quality sensor with pH sensor
• Proteus Instruments Pro-Station Lite
• Wildeye 4G datalogger

Project Overview and Implementation

RS Hydro were approached by a Civil Engineering consulting firm, asked to help a cereal production facility to monitor water flow and pH of the water flowing through two interceptors located on-site.

RS Hydro were able to utilise equipment in the hire-fleet to deploy the instrumentation in relatively short time-frames and inexpensively.

The ISCO DuraTracker was selected as this handy, portable battery powered open channel flowmeter uses doppler area-velocity to monitor fluid flow and level passing over the sensor.

The Eureka Manta was paired with Proteus Instruments Pro-Station Lit to act as a portable pH monitoring system. The Manta sensors were located in sumps to ensure they were always in-contact with fluid and monitoring pH reliably, even in no-flow events.

Both the ISCO DuraTracker and Pro-Station Lite systems were able to provide remote access to logged data, using a Wildeye 4G datalogger. Even though the instrumentation was located underneath manhole covers, there were no issues experienced with signal quality.

The two interceptors were monitored over the course of one month, with RS Hydro’s engineering team on hand to commission the systems and collect the data after the monitoring period.