Manufacturing Industry

Measurement to Maximize Production

The Hach ® analytics portfolio for manufacturing is designed to give you the accurate, reliable and informative data you rely on to confidently navigate the tough decisions on product release, process adjustments and response to regulatory changes. With Hach as your partner in process monitoring and laboratory analysis, you can more effectively control product quality, control oxygen scavenger dosing, control corrosion and deposits—and therefore control costs. 

From a simple, dedicated meter to on-line measurement or wastewater treatment optimization, our solutions are based on years of innovation and a desire to provide the simplest way to results you can trust. 

Our products, application support and local service help you:
  • Maintain quality by ensuring consistent finished products that meet customer needs
  • Maximize uptime of equipment and production
  • Maintain regulatory compliance, environmental profile improvements and water conservation
  • Monitor efficiency loss
  • Protect your investment via process efficiency and prolonged plant and equipment life


Providing solutions for:
  • Biotech process industry
  • Flexible production
  • Pharmaceutical technology  

 


 

Water Conditioning

Real-time analysis of parameters during raw water
intake and conditioning provides critical advantages
including:
• Process efficiency over biocide dosing and cost
• Early determination of changes to incoming water
quality
• Awareness of production performance and plant
efficiency including pre-treatment costs, in-plant
scale, corrosion, and non-ionic inorganic deposits
• Quality control of filtration effectiveness and
microbiological quality

Parameters Relevant to
Water Conditioning:

cog icon   flask icon  Free chlorine, total chlorine
cog icon   flask icon  Conductivity
cog icon   flask icon  Hardness
cog icon   flask icon  pH value
cog icon   flask icon  Total Organic Carbon (TOC)
cog icon   flask icon  Turbidity and Total Suspended Solids (TSS)

How to Measure:

• CEL Water Conditioning Laboratory
• Deluxe Water Conditioning Demonstration Kit
• Nitratax plus SC Sensor
• APA6000 Alkalinity Analyzer
• NITRATAX Controller
• Pocket Colorimeter

water conditioning or destilation room
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Process solutions include online sensors that provide round-the-clock support for critical operational and process decision making.

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Laboratory solutions include simple, reliable and accurate tests that support quality and compliance decision making.

Steam, Power & Cooling

Maximize plant life and efficiency by monitoring the
steam generation, power production and cooling
parameters that facilitate real-time management of:
• Corrosion-reduction methods such as oxygen
scavenger dosing and phosphate addition
• Efficiency loss in ion exchangers or membrane
systems used for pre-treatment

Parameters Relevant to
Power Generation and Cooling:

cog icon   flask icon  Ammonia
       flask icon  Chloride
cog icon   flask icon  Chlorine/Oxidants
cog icon   flask icon  Chlorine Dioxide
cog icon   flask icon  Conductivity/Total Dissolved Solids (TDS)
       flask icon  Copper
cog icon   flask icon  Dissolved Oxygen
cog icon   flask icon  Hardness/Alkalinity
cog icon   flask icon  Hydrazine/Oxygen Scavenger
cog icon   flask icon  Hydrogen
cog icon   flask icon  Iron
       flask icon  Microbiology
cog icon   flask icon  Molybdate and Other Corrosion Inhibitors
cog icon   flask icon  Oxidation-Reduction Potential
cog icon   flask icon  Ozone
cog icon   flask icon  pH
cog icon   flask icon  Phosphate
cog icon   flask icon  Silica
cog icon   flask icon  Sodium
cog icon   flask icon  Total Organic Carbon

How to Measure:

• 8362 sc High purity pH and ORP Sensor
• Orbisphere K1100/K1200 Oxygen Sensors
• Oxygen (LDO) Sensor
• 5500 sc Ammonia Monochloramine Analyzer
• 9240/9245 Sodium Analyzers
• 3708 sc Electrodeless Conductivity Sensors
• 3700 Analog Inductive Conductivity Sensors
• 3400 Digital Contacting Conductivity Sensors
• 3400 Analog Contacting Conductivity Sensors

power generation cooling towers
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Process solutions include online sensors that provide round-the-clock support for critical operational and process decision making.

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Laboratory solutions include simple, reliable and accurate tests that support quality and compliance decision making.

Production

Measurement during the production process is an
essential part of quality control, and ensures that your
finished products comply to specifications and meet
shelf life requirements.

Parameters Relevant to
Production:
       flask icon  Acid capacity / base capacity
       flask icon  Chloride
       flask icon  Color number of liquids (e.g. oil)
       flask icon  Cyanide
       flask icon  Enzymatic analysis (e.g. glucose, fructose)
       flask icon  Metals (e.g. copper, lead, nickel)
       flask icon  Moisture (Karl Fischer titration)
       flask icon  Nitrate, Nitrite, Total Nitrogen
       flask icon  Organic acids
cog icon   flask icon  Particles
cog icon   flask icon  pH value
       flask icon  Phenol
cog icon   flask icon  Surfactants
cog icon   flask icon  Turbidity and Total Suspended Solids (TSS)

How to Measure:
• 8362 sc High purity pH and ORP Sensor
• Pocket Colorimeter
• ISE25CN-9 Cyanide Ion Selective Electrode
• AT1000 Automatic Titrator
• Nitratax plus SC Sensor
• APA6000 Alkalinity Analyzer
• NITRATAX Controller
• TSS sc Turbidity and Suspended Solids Sensors
• Solitax sc Turbidity and Suspended Solids Probes

pharmaceutical electrodeionization tank
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Process solutions include online sensors that provide round-the-clock support for critical operational and process decision making.

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Laboratory solutions include simple, reliable and accurate tests that support quality and compliance decision making.

Neutralization

Water quality sampling during neutralization
provides key indicators to help manufacturers:
• Maintain regulatory compliance
• Monitor treatment process performance
• Ensure compliance with legal limit values

Parameters Relevant to
Neutralization:
cog icon   flask icon  pH value
cog icon   flask icon  Conductivity
cog icon   flask icon  Redox potential

How to Measure:
• 8362 sc High purity pH and ORP Sensor
• 3798 sc Electrodeless Conductivity Sensors
• 3700 Analog Inductive Conductivity Sensors
• 3400 Digital Contacting Conductivity Sensors
• 3400 Analog Contacting Conductivity Sensors

neutralization process water discharge
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Process solutions include online sensors that provide round-the-clock support for critical operational and process decision making.

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Laboratory solutions include simple, reliable and accurate tests that support quality and compliance decision making.

Wastewater

Wastewater analytics represent the final opportunity
for process safety in manufacturing, and are therefore
critical in maintaining regulatory compliance. Process
and laboratory solutions enable producers to:
• Monitor and optimize treatment process
performance, including biological wastewater
treatment
• Ensure dispatch is in compliance with legal limit
values

Parameters Relevant to
Wastewater:
cog icon   flask icon  Conductivity
cog icon         Flow
cog icon   flask icon  Nutrients
cog icon   flask icon  Oxygen
cog icon   flask icon  pH value
cog icon         Sludge level
cog icon   flask icon  Total Organic Carbon (TOC)
cog icon   flask icon  Turbidity and Total Suspended Solids (TSS)

How to Measure:
• BioTector B7000i TOC Analyzer
• BioTector B3500e TOC Analyzer
• AMTAX sc Ammonium Analyzer
• PHOSPHAX sc Phosphate Analyzer
• Differential pH Digital Sensors
• UVAS plus sc UV Probe Sensor
• LDO sc Luminescent Dissolved Oxygen Sensor
• TSSsc Turbidity and Suspended Solids Sensors
• Solitax sc Turbidity and Suspended Solids Probes
• Filtrax sample filtration system
• HQ440D Laboratory pH Meter Package
• SC200 Multi-parameter Display Module
• Grab Samplers
• Portable Samplers

aerial view of industrial wastewater treatment facility
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Process solutions include online sensors that provide round-the-clock support for critical operational and process decision making.

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Laboratory solutions include simple, reliable and accurate tests that support quality and compliance decision making.

 

 


 

 

Service & Support

 

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Online Support

Hach Support Online (HSO) pools more than 70 years of water analysis knowledge into a powerful global community. Flowing directly into our customer and technical support teams, this dynamic resource delivers real-time answers, user-friendly search tools, multiple types of content, and easy ways to connect with Hach experts. With HSO, you get the information you need and together, we can ensure water quality for people around the world.

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Technical Training

Hach Training Center provides relevant, hands-on training to your team, giving them the experience they need to master various theories and techniques—and produce results you can trust for quality assurance, environmental safety, and regulatory compliance. Hach experts offer a large course catalog of workshop training, personalized training, and digital learning designed to increase proficiency and confidence for plant operators, instrument and field technicians, laboratory personnel, and plant managers and superintendents.

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Service

Hach ServicePlus ® Programs have been developed to help solve your maintenance and support problems. Whether it’s a lack of resources or skills, an instrument that is down, compliance concerns or the need for a predictable budget, we have programs to fit the unique challenges you face in your organization.