Applications

Burmarc Environmental Ltd. has a wide range of experience of providing instrumentation and analysis solutions in the water, wastewater, industrial effluent and environmental industries.

Waste Water
Most industries now have a requirement to monitor and possibly control water quality throughout their production process; from the quality of water at the intake point and through production or simply at the point of discharge.

Each industry has specifications for contaminant limits in the effluent water. Increasingly, the responsibility for monitoring and control of these limits is passing to industry where previously it has been carried out by either the Environment Agency or the water companies.

Burmarc Environmental Ltd. is here to help you meet these growing requirements. Many Industries and Applications need to measure common parameters. However, the recommended methods for each parameter can vary for different industries as the requirements for precision, accuracy and detection limits will alter for different applications.

Drinking Water
Conductivity levels are less stringent in the environment for example, than in quality control for the pharmaceutical industry, or for process water in a power generation plant.

As another example, acceptable levels of ammonia and nitrate are very different in a moorland stream from those in the early stages of a waste water treatment plant.

Industries and research bodies whose activities we have supported include:

 
 
  Aquarium management Power production
  Dairy production   Paper production
  Drinking water supplies   Waste management e.g. landfill sites
  Environmental monitoring & protection   Waste water treatment
  Meat processing   Harbour management
  Oil industry   Conservation bodies
 
 

There are many reasons for controlling the content of water including:

Quality Control
Generally industry specific but often includes: conductivity, colour, pH, turbidity.

Process Control
Generally industry specific but often includes: conductivity, temperature, pH, humidity.

Waste Water Treatment
A very specific type of process largely controlled through Dissolved oxygen, pH, nitrate and ammonia with final discharges heavily legislated on BOD and COD Ammonia and turbidity

Consent Compliance and Pollution Control
Can be determined by the receiving waters but usually biologically active parameters such as dissolved oxygen, pH, ammonia, BOD, COD, temperature and suspended solids For specific industries, particularly food industry, fats oils and grease are important contaminants.

Environmental Monitoring
There is a standard suite of parameters, commonly measured by the EA and environmental professionals, these include dissolved oxygen, pH, redox (ORP), ammonia, suspended solids and sometimes colour.

Stock Protection in fish farms and aquaria
Mainly Dissolved oxygen, temperature, salinity/conductivity, pH ammonia and nitrate.

Drinking Water Protection
Coductivity, pH, chlorine, iron and aluminium.