Various regulatory bodies across the globe have made water pollution analysis mandatory. In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the leading authority on acceptable levels of pollution in different water bodies.
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The Clean Water Act is the basis for regulating this, which has allowed the EPA to institute several pollution control programs for the discharge of wastewater in several industries. These tests are applied for the quantification of biological and chemical contaminants in liquid media such as sediments, wastewater, biosolids like sewage, and surface water or groundwater.
Mixing products are regularly used for water pollution analysis to promote reactions between biochemical or chemical reagents and liquid analytes, or to isolate homogenous matrices to study their liquid-phase constituents separately. The latter process mandates that mixing products are provided with a separator outlet to partition liquid phases on the basis of their density. It is feasible to subsequently analyze these different concentrates in isolation.
The pollutive content of a liquid effluent can be evaluated using various EPA-approved techniques for water pollution analysis. It is necessary for laboratory mixing products to offer versatile and adjustable experiment parameters to satisfy the robust mixing requirements for water pollution analysis of different analytes and in line with pre-defined techniques.
3D Floor Shaker: Versatility in Contaminant Analysis
Glas-Col’s 3D Floor Shaker is a sophisticated mixing product intended to emulate the conditions of a flask that is shaken by hand, allowing a complete range of mixing action with the thorough elimination of the labor intensity needed for the task. It is feasible to simultaneously shake nearly eight 2-l funnels, with a three-dimensional range of motion and speed capabilities of 10–170 RPM. A task that would need a number of hours for several analysts to complete can now be fully automated and evaluated with a speed display resolution of 1 RPM and an incremental speed setting of 10 RPM.
The mixing product is optimal for performing water pollution analysis through various different EPA techniques. Immiscible constituents can be extracted by easily clipping holders in place by attaching separatory funnels and rotating them alternately to 180°. The same principle can be employed to introduce biochemical or chemical reagents to the solution at the time of the mixing process.
The 3D Floor Shaker mixing products from Glas-Col are adaptable to an array of mixing vessels and flasks. Glas-Col also offers various additional mixing accessories to enable agitation, mixture, or extraction of more difficult wastewater samples.
The 3D Floor Shaker is suitable for various EPA techniques, such as:
- Method 507 for evaluating phosphorus- and nitrogen-containing pesticides in drinking water
- Method 1664 for evaluating hexane extractable materials such as grease and oil
- Method 508.1 for detecting the presence of chlorinated pesticides in samples through liquid-solid extraction
- Method 418.1 for evaluating total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH)
Although this not a detailed list of the appropriate EPA water pollution analysis techniques enabled with Glas-Col’s 3D Floor Shaker range of mixing products, it does offer an overview of the versatile and robust capabilities of the product line.
Mixing Products from Glas-Col
Glas-Col offers a wide array of mixing products for several applications. Water and wastewater pollution is one of the most crucial applications across the globe since industries around the world strive toward enhancing the sustainability of their processing facilities and bring down operating costs by recovering as much process water as possible.
The Glas-Col 3D Floor Shaker is specifically suitable for such difficult applications.
This information has been sourced, reviewed and adapted from materials provided by Glas-Col.
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