Dissolved Oxygen vs Sulphite in Boiler Water Treatment: Why You Need to Measure Both
Dissolved oxygen and sulphite are not interchangeable measurements in boiler water treatment. Each tells you something different, and monitoring only one leaves a critical blind spot in your corrosion control programme.
Biofilm in Pulp and Paper Mills: The Hidden Threat to Production Quality and Equipment Uptime
Biofilm in paper mill water circuits causes sheet breaks, odour problems, corrosion, and unplanned downtime. Learn how the Alvim Biofilm Sensor detects biofilm early and verifies biocide effectiveness.
Inline Medicator vs Batch Preparation: Why Your Header Tank Is Undermining Your Livestock Medication Programme
Batch dosing in header tanks causes sedimentation, uneven medication concentration, contamination risk, and cleaning headaches. Here is why inline proportional dosing with Dosatron solves all of these at once.
Non-Chemical Water Treatment for Cooling Towers: A Practical Guide
A technical comparison of non-chemical cooling tower water treatment methods — magnetic conditioning, ozone, pulsed power, electrochemical, and more — and where the SKW System fits.
Magnetic Water Treatment Explained: How the SKW System Uses Lorentz Force to Stop Scale, Corrosion, and Biofilm
Scale builds up in your pipework, corrosion eats through your heat exchangers, and biofilm clogs your filters — and none of it needs a single milligram of chemical to start. It’s a physical problem caused by dissolved minerals and bacteria finding a comfortable surface to settle on. Chemical dosing treats the symptom. Magnetic water treatment, […]
Bare Gold Electrode vs Membrane-Type Sensors for Oxidizer and Reducing Agent Measurement
Most inline chlorine and oxidizer sensors on the market share the same weak point: a membrane. It sits between the electrode and the water, and it’s also the part that dries out, fouls, tears, and needs replacing every few months — usually right when a plant can least afford the downtime. Pyxis built its ST-765SS […]
Dipslide vs Petrifilm vs Laboratory Analysis: Which Microbial Test Should You Use?
A cooling tower, a metalworking fluid sump, and a boiler feedwater line all have the same underlying question: how many bacteria are in there right now, and does someone need to act today? Three tools answer that question at very different speeds, costs, and levels of precision — the dipslide, Petrifilm, and full laboratory analysis. […]
Conductivity vs. Fluorescence for Sugar Leak Detection in Boiler Condensate
Sugar mills have relied on hourly manual condensate sampling for decades, precisely because a sugar leak into boiler condensate is expensive and dangerous to leave undetected. The problem is that manual sampling and conductivity-based online monitoring share the same underlying weakness: neither one is sensitive enough to catch a leak while it’s still small, so […]
Condition-Based vs Outcome-Based Cooling Tower Water Treatment: Measuring the Result Instead of the Recipe
A cooling tower can run within every setpoint on the controller — conductivity in range, pH in range, ORP in range — and still be forming scale, growing biofilm, and corroding the heat exchanger. That’s not a contradiction. Conductivity, pH, and ORP were never measuring those failures directly. They were measuring conditions that make those […]
Why Wait Until Algae Is Visible? Early Chlorophyll-A Detection in Cooling Tower Water Treatment
Algae is one of the few cooling tower problems a water treatment provider doesn’t strictly need a sensor to find — green slime on the basin walls or a film across the fill media is visible to anyone who looks. That’s exactly the problem. By the time it’s visible to you on a service visit, […]