Field Fluorometer Articles & Analysis
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In many areas of our life, manual monitoring has been replaced by automatic or online monitoring as and when the instrumentation technology has been developed; however there is one area that has fallen behind the times and has not caught up which is water quality. Many parameters are simply not possible to measure in the field or can only be done by grab sampling. In the last ten years or so we ...
The alternative use of effluent turbidity to determine the dilution field of a domestic marine outfall located off the city of Rio de Janeiro was evaluated through field work comprising fluorescent dye tracer injection and tracking with simultaneous monitoring of sea water turbidity. A preliminary laboratory assessment was carried out with a sample of the ...
Two field fluorometers, devoted either to natural organic matter (NOM) or to tryptophan-like fluorescing substances, were tested for the characterization of a large set of water samples (n = 263) impacted to various degrees by untreated or poorly treated urban sewage. Both fluorometers yielded consistent results when testing discrete ...