Optical Fouling Monitors

Dr RL Wetegrove, Dr RH Banks

III General Meeting - Biocorrosion Network

Workshop on Monitoring Systems
Venezia 12-14 April 2000
 Nalco Optical Monitors
• Five Patents:
– Disk Monitors
• Reflectance (US 5,264,917)
• Transmittance (US 5,155,555) Paper
– Wiper Monitor (US 5,185,533) Cooling Water
– Falling Stream (US 6,023,070)
– Living Deposits Detection (US 5,796,478)
• One Standardized, One in Development
 Disk OFM in Read Position
Detector
LED Source/
Target Areas Detector

Test Disk
Rotation Axis

Liquid Level

Rotation
 Disk OFM Application Example
1600

Before
1400

OFM Run 2
1200 Transition OFM Run 3
OFM Run 4
OFM Run 5
1000 OFM Run 6
OFM Run 7
OFM

OFM Run 8
800 OFM Run 9
OFM Run 10
OFM Run 11
600
OFM Run 12
First Treatment Protocol OFM Run 13
OFM Run 14
400
OFM Run 15

200

Second Treatment Protocol

0
00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Days from Beginning of OFM Run

Falling Stream OFM

Light source
& Detector
Control

(4-20 mA output)
 Nalco Falling Stream Monitor Results
250.00 18

16

Residual Oxidant as Cl2

200.00
14
OFM or ORP mV or Added Product (ppm

(Total by DPD)
12

150.00
10
Active)

8
100.00

6
OFM

4
50.00 Product
Added

2 ORP

0.00 0 Tot Cl2

DPD
0.00 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.00 3.50 4.00
Elapsed Days from Start of Fouling Run
 Wiper OFM
Automatically
Wiped Clean

Alarm /
Detect Product
Control Feed
&
Process
&
Store Remote
External
Site
Modem
Surface
Deposit
Accumulates
 Figure Six
ORP & Fouling Monitors -- March to June
600 350

330

500
310

290
400
Fouling Index & ORP

270

Friction Factor
. Foul Indx
ORP
300 250
Fric Fact

230

200
210

190
100

170

0 150
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