Wilks Enterprise has published a whitepaper entitled 'Emulsion-Breaking Techniques to Ensure Accurate Oil-in-Water Measurements'.
Certain water samples, such as those containing detergent, many form an emulsion when oil in water extraction into a solvent is done.
In order to ensure an accurate measurement, the emulsion must be broken.
The whitepaper discusses six emulsion-breaking techniques that can be used for reducing an emulsion in order to obtain valid oil-in-water measurements, whether the analysis is done by infrared, gravimetric or UV techniques.
All of the emulsion-breaking methods discussed in the paper are usable with portable infrared analysers, such as the Wilks Infracal TPG/TPH analysers, and for virtually any type of oil in water measurements, including fat, oil and grease (FOG) wastewater discharges.
