Protect Water Intakes from Oil Spills with Turner Oil in Water Monitors.

Protect your water intake from oil or other hydrocarbon contamination with continuous oil in water monitors using Fluorescence detection technology. The protection of Desalination Plants, Open Loop Cooling Water Intakes, Seafood Processing Plants and other water users is a special problem during an oil spill or other marine accident. Potential pollution sources include crude oil drilling and production, ships and barges with oily bilge wastewater or cargo spills, and other industrial plants with oil leaks in cooling or wastewater systems. Low maintenance Turner oil in water monitors using fluorescence based measurement technology provide high sensitivity to most oil based hydrocarbons including crude oil, fuels, lubricating and hydraulic oil, and virtually all aromatic chemicals including BTEX.

High sensitivity continuous on-line monitors such as the Turner Designs Hydrocarbon Instruments’, TD-4100 and TD-1000C series provide the earliest warning of contamination on the market today. In most applications, detection limit is below 500ppb and some as low as 20ppb depending on the organic background of the water source. This is well below the threshold of a sheen detector. Alternately, the TD-3100 bench model and TD-500D hand held single sample analyzers provide quick results for spot checking. TD-500D Oil Spill field test kits are available for immediate delivery!!

The TD-4100 was first applied to river pollution monitoring in Austria 15 years ago by sensing groundwater from monitoring wells under the influence of the Danube along its banks in Austria. Their viability was proven by detecting river spills above 20ppb in the first weeks of operation. Since then, more than 150 systems have been installed to protect major international municipal seawater desalination plants, fresh potable water intakes, seafood processing, and power plant cooling water intake and discharge systems. Potable water systems for multiple municipalities in Michigan are now protected by the TD-4100 under grants from the Department of Homeland Security and the US Army Corps of Engineers has just installed a second TD-4100 on a Potomac River lift station to protect the downstream water supply and Morgan City, Louisiana has successfully protected its water supply from oil contamination from local ship traffic for many years.

In Michigan, the TD-4100 shuts down the intake pumps at the municipal water plants if hydrocarbons are detected. The TD-4100 was chosen for its high benefit to cost value, operation and maintenance simplicity and lack of interference from silt, suspended solids, and natural organic substances. All products from Turner are designed for maximum sensitivity to hydrocarbons in the presence of high levels of what would be interference to other technologies.

Turner Designs Hydrocarbon Instruments’ sole business is oil in water monitoring with a complete line of instruments including continuous on-line monitors, bench top and hand held analyzers for all applications from heavy duty offshore oil production to refining and petrochemical to heavy industrial to simple drinking water intake protection. We are an ISO 9000:2008 accredited company. Turner monitors: Protecting the World’s Waterways!!
For additional information, please contact sales@oilinwatermonitors.com, or 559-253-1414.