This research highlights the utility of advanced biomass characterization in refinery wastewater treatment to understand process upsets and identify shifts within the microbial community that are contributing to changes... Read More
Discover how LuminUltra's BugCount® Guardian helped a prominent beverage production and bottling facility in North America realize the potential for over $200,000 in recovered revenue.... Read More
Learn how Ford Valencia Body & Assembly in Valencia, Spain, optimized its biocide treatment program and cut biocide consumption by 58% through the use of 2nd Generation ATP testing.... Read More
Microbial source tracking (MST) gives water resource managers a powerful tool to understand the source of contamination and mitigate its effects — or stop it all together.... Read More
LuminUltra’s GeneCount® Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) service takes microbial monitoring to the “next” level by sequencing the 16S rRNA gene, present in all bacteria and archaea, allowing for differentiation... Read More
What’s inside: Legionella bacteria are responsible for the most water-associated disease outbreaks in the U.S. and cases have been increasing steadily in North America over the last ~20 years. Despite... Read More
What’s inside: LuminUltra’s GeneCount® LT qPCR solutions for Legionella species and Legionella pneumophila enables rapid and flexible measurement of Legionella in potable water sources, cooling water and building (premise plumbing)... Read More
What’s inside: Microbial source tracking is a cost-efficient, scientifically reliable method for understanding what is directly responsible for the fecal pollution in an environment. General fecal indicators are ineffective... Read More
Learn how to design and implement effective practices to control fecal contamination and improve water quality with Microbial Source Tracking.... Read More
What’s inside: Ballast water management policies are implemented to prevent the release of invasive and non-native species or pathogens to marine ecosystems from the discharge of untreated ballast water... Read More
LuminUltra's GeneCount® technology is among the first to have received GBAC STAR™ Registered Technology & Registered Programs designation, the cleaning industry’s only outbreak prevention, response, and recovery accreditation.... Read More
What’s inside: Ballast tanks within ships are filled with water to provide stability during transportation of cargo. The ballast water that is discharged at the ship’s destination may carry... Read More
Is your process running at peak performance? Most wastewater operational challenges – bulking, upsets, excessive costs, and non-compliance – stem from inaccurate measurements of the true, living biomass in... Read More
Copying and detecting the presence or absence of a target sequence We are often asked to define and compare testing methods for industrial users seeking to upgrade and optimize... Read More
What’s inside: Ballast water helps to stabilize ships during transport. It’s drawn in at a ship’s origin, along with local aquatic organisms and plants, and then discharged at its... Read More
What’s inside: A steel producer in Taiwan, produces wastewater that is high in organics, ammonia, solids, and other waste products. The wastewater is treated on-site using a series of... Read More
Webinar on demand Using NGS to Optimize and Troubleshoot Wastewater Treatment Systems What to expect: Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data can be difficult to interpret, and as a result, the... Read More
BugCount® Online Trial Comparison Report Extensive automated ATP testing trials were performed in two different cooling tower systems. The first two sites were a pilot-scale cooling tower system and... Read More
What’s inside: The tools available to assess biological growth tendencies in biological filters are limited. Heterotrophic Plate Counts and other culture-based methods take days to obtain results, only measure... Read More
Converting gene copies/mL to cells/mL Since many operators like to have results reported in a format that is familiar to them, it is possible to convert the gene copies/mL... Read More
You may have heard of quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) in the news recently as the gold-standard testing method for COVID-19. But did you know that this technology can... Read More
Metagenomics is an emerging field Metagenomics is a quickly evolving field, with new papers being published and new products and services being offered each year. Since metagenomics analysis is a relatively... Read More
A municipal wastewater treatment plant planning to carry out an expensive capital upgrade. This upgrade would improve treatment performance and bring the plant into compliance but was extremely expensive.... Read More
Ammonia removal is a key metric for assessing wastewater treatment facility performance. This is because ammonia contributes to aquatic life toxicity. Furthermore, nitrogen, along with phosphorus, is a driver... Read More
First of all, what is NGS and what does it do? Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) is a tool that has revolutionized many fields of study. So far DNA sequencing has... Read More
There’s no universal method for cataloging organisms or for converting sequencing data to taxonomic data, so careful examination of methodology, as well as the results, is needed when analyzing... Read More
LuminUltra’s 2nd Generation ATP testing can help operators and field technicians by delivering rapid microbiological water quality data for immediate action, but it’s also an integral tool to help... Read More
For those familiar with 2nd Generation ATP testing, it’s clear that the luminometer is a critical piece of equipment in the testing procedure. It allows us to quantify ATP... Read More
The Quench-Gone syringe filter is included in our ATP test kits for some methods. Learn more about about what they do.... Read More
Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) can rapidly screen for and identify nearly all types of microbes present.... Read More
Does your current (microbial) testing program, give you all the answers you need? Find out how a new generation of ATP testing can provide useful insights on the spot.... Read More
One of the major benefits of LuminUltra’s 2nd generation ATP monitoring over existing technology (i.e. ATP pens) is the normalization of enzyme activity. At the microbiological level, knowing... Read More
The significance of viable but non-culturable (VBNC) cells is becoming increasingly evident. We revisit the importance of measuring them.... Read More
You’ve likely heard of ATP technology, but may not have had the time to fully explore the value it can bring to your existing microbial monitoring program. Here’s a... Read More
If you purchased one of our portable equipment sets, you received a set of fixed-volume pipettes. These pipettes allow you to run ATP analyses in the field without... Read More
Before our PhotonMaster luminometers head out the door they are all rigorously checked in our hardware lab; sensitivity and linearity tests confirm that all units meet the required specifications... Read More
One of the key components of any analytical method is the detector. In the case of ATP testing, that detector is a photomultiplier tube located inside the LuminUltra PhotonMaster... Read More
Introduction The activated sludge process is used to concentrate the biomass which naturally degrades carbonaceous substances found in most industrial and municipal wastewaters. A common practice in these plants... Read More
What’s inside: This document is a high-level summary of the similarities and differences between LuminUltra’s 2nd Generation ATP® monitoring technology and traditional microbiological tests. Please refer to this page... Read More
Establishing a routine monitoring plan for ATP will ensure that you’re able to take preventative action to reduce risk. Learn how here.... Read More
Suspended growth systems, such as activated sludge, are a very common form of secondary wastewater treatment. The potential to optimize and improve the operation of such treatment plants... Read More
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