| Nowadays TOC value is a crucial parameter for drinking water and wastewater treatment plants. For drinking water TOC gives an indication of the presence of organic compounds. These compounds are potentially dangerous in the cleaning process. They may react with the disinfectants to form toxic and even carcinogenic compounds. High TOC concentrations in wastewater may cause eutrophication, which lead to rapid oxygen depletion. The lack of oxygen then causes massive mortality among fauna and fish. With the HiPerTOC analyzer water or environmental laboratories can use 4 different destruction techniques to cover all water matrices. They can analyze clean matrix samples like ultra-pure water up to heavy matrix samples like seawater.
This application report describes the use of two destruction techniques: High temperature destruction and UV/persulfate destruction. These two destruction techniques are suitable to measure drinking water, surface water and percolate water (mixture of soil and acid tear eluates). Adding a known amount of TOC to the samples tests the matrix dependence of the TOC analysis. |