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Complete Solutions, Worldwide Support in Water Analysis

For over 70 years, Hach® has offered water analytical instruments for process, lab, and handheld applications. Hach makes water analysis better, faster, simpler, greener, and more informative. 

Within the maritime industry, Hach’s solutions can be found onboard vessels for gas scrubber applications, waste and potable water monitoring, ballast water disinfection monitoring, and recreational water monitoring. Hach has a global support network with locations in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, and the Caribbean.

With Hach, ship owners can:

  • Maintain SOx compliance without hiring additional onboard expertise
  • Avoid fines by meeting the IMO ballast water regulations
  • Provide safe potable water to passengers
  • Reduce wastewater treatment costs
  • Utilize a low-maintenance solution for monitoring bilge water treatment



 

Maintain SOx compliance with Exhaust Gas Cleaning

Gas scrubber water analysis represents Hach’s newest application with years of successful runtime across multiple manufacturers. Hach’s robust and reliable portfolio of instruments has been proven for gas scrubber applications, including process and handheld measurements of turbidity, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), pH, dissolved oxygen, and conductivity. Hach service engineers have provided onboard calibration, maintenance, and repair support globally.

Parameters Relevant to Gas Scrubber Water Analysis

  • pH
  • Conductivity
  • PAH/Oil in Water
  • Turbidity
  • Free Chlorine, Total Chlorine
  • Alkalinity
  • Suspended Solids, TDS

How to Measure:

The global sulphur cap regulations can be met with Flue Gas Scrubbers.

Are you or your customers ready for 2020 IMO SOx regulations?

With the decision to move the global sulfur limit to 0.50% m/m (mass/mass) in 2020, ship owners will require maximum uptime for additional analytical equipment. With insufficient water analysis experts on staff, ship owners will need to partner with a vendor that can offer proven reliability of products and expert service on a global scale.

Working with a vendor not well-versed in water analytics, or a vendor without a global footprint that has the resources to scale to your needs can result in downtime, a risk of fines and an impact on the environment. 

By partnering with Hach, ship owners can save time and resources with preventative maintenance, calibration, and repair services for exhaust gas cleaning monitoring solutions. Hach instruments for the exhaust gas cleaning system are DNV-GL certified.

Avoid fines with efficient ballast water disinfection

Hach has the expertise to provide the right solutions for ballast water monitoring to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements, including treatment systems utilizing UV disinfection or chemical disinfection. Hach continues to work closely with the maritime industry to develop instrumentation that meets the needs of the wide variety of stakeholders, including ship owners and operators, shipbuilders, Port State Control and other regulatory stakeholders, who are impacted by these regulations.

Parameters Relevant to Ballast Water Disinfection

  • Conductivity
  • Turbidity
  • Free Chlorine, Total Chlorine
  • Residual Disinfectant Level
  • Alkalinity
  • Oganic Load

How to Measure:

Monitor UV and chemical disinfection of ballast water to avoid fines.

Keep passengers safe with accurate potable water analysis

Hach’s solutions are designed to make drinking water analysis better, giving you total confidence in the quality and safety of your potable water. Hach covers all the drinking water testing parameters that you use to analyze and treat water through filtration, disinfection, and distribution.

Parameters Relevant to Potable Water Analysis

  • pH
  • Conductivity
  • Turbidity
  • Free Chlorine, Total Chlorine
  • Residual Disinfectant Level
  • Alkalinity
  • Organic Load
  • Suspended Solids, TDS

How to Measure:

Accurate analysis of drinking water and monitoring of fresh water generation.

Ensure safety with simple-to-use pool test kits

Ensure recreational water safety for your guests utilizing Hach’s simple-to-use test kits and portable lab options. Free and total chlorine, hardness, pH, alkalinity, calcium, and cyanuric acid are all available through Hach’s established solutions portfolio.

Parameters Relevant to Pool and Recreational Water

  • pH
  • Conductivity
  • Turbidity
  • Free Chlorine, Total Chlorine
  • Residual Disinfectant Level
  • Alkalinity
  • Hardness

How to Measure:

  • Pool Master Test Kit Alkalinity, Chlorine, Chlorine Free, Chlorine Total, Hardness, pH
  • SC1000 Chlorine Free, Conductivity, Oxidation-Reduction Potential (ORP), pH, Salinity
Ensuring the right chlorine level in pools and spas for safe recreational environments.

Be confident in a care-free solution to bilge water monitoring

Continuously monitor the oil content of your bilge water with the low-maintenance Hach FP360 oil-in-water probe. Optional automatic cleaning, with annual calibration reduces your time spent compared to traditional Oil Content Monitors.

Parameters Relavant to Bilge Water Monitoring

  • PAH/Oil in Water

How to Measure:

Avoid discharging bilge water that exceeds the legal limits for oil content.

Gain control of your wastewater treatment process

At Hach, we understand and embrace the challenge of growing regulations impacting onboard wastewater treatment. By utilizing Hach water analytical solutions you gain greater control of your treatment process to prevent downtime, minimize energy usage, and ensure regulatory compliance.

Parameters Relevant to Wastewater Treatment

  • pH
  • Turbidity
  • Organic Load
  • Suspended Solids, TDS

How to Measure:

Meet consent limits and reduce treatment costs by controlling your wastewater process.

 

 

Service & Support

 

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Online Support

Hach Support Online (HSO) pools more than 70 years of water analysis knowledge into a powerful global community. Flowing directly into our customer and technical support teams, this dynamic resource delivers real-time answers, user-friendly search tools, multiple types of content, and easy ways to connect with Hach experts. With HSO, you get the information you need and together, we can ensure water quality for people around the world.

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Technical Training

Hach Training Center provides relevant, hands-on training to your team, giving them the experience they need to master various theories and techniques—and produce results you can trust for quality assurance, environmental safety, and regulatory compliance. Hach experts offer a large course catalog of workshop training, personalized training, and digital learning designed to increase proficiency and confidence for plant operators, instrument and field technicians, laboratory personnel, and plant managers and superintendents.

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Service

Hach ServicePlus ® Programs have been developed to help solve your maintenance and support problems. Whether it’s a lack of resources or skills, an instrument that is down, compliance concerns or the need for a predictable budget, we have programs to fit the unique challenges you face in your organization.