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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
aqua-tools, the specialist in water microbiology, has delivered the first in series of 30 state-of-the-art Rapid ATP Ballast Water Monitoring Systems to SGS Group. The Geneva-based testing and certification... Read More
A colleague recently conveyed a conversation he’d had with an operator at a sewage treatment plant. Society tends to have an unfounded stigma of sewage treatment plants, so... Read More
What is sludge bulking? Sludge bulking is a severe problem that can plague activated sludge wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). It’s been estimated that 60% of activated sludge WWTP... Read More
Water quality regulators do their best to set policies to ensure the public has access to safe water to drink in terms of microbiological cleanliness. Despite regulations that dictate... Read More
The findings of this technical paper show the utility of ATP monitoring when evaluating significant process changes, and in day-to-day operation.... Read More
Many people know what ATP stands for, but do you know what it does? This blog demystifies this amazing energy carrier and explains why water professionals should care about... Read More
What’s inside: LuminUltra’s 2nd Generation ATP® technology provides users with the means to measure true total microorganism concentration in a wide variety of aqueous and organic fluids. This document... Read More
Biological wastewater can be a be complex testing environment, but also offers the greatest opportunities for cost savings and overall optimization.... Read More
What’s inside: Authored by our long-time European distribution partner, Aqua-tools, with the cooperation of Altis Semiconductor, this document provides an in-depth overview of the improvements that were realized by... Read More
What’s inside: ATP testing can be very simple to carry out, but the science behind it is fascinating. This resource provides an overview of the concepts associated with 2nd... Read More
This whitepaper provides an overview of ATP testing and discusses challenges that are faced to achieve accurate and reliable results. What’s inside: ATP is the primary energy carrier for... Read More
What’s inside: Following the early days of commercial ATP testing in food and hygiene applications up to its present-day use across dozens of new applications, there have been many... Read More
After the popularity of our initial article focusing on “The 5 most common questions that we are asked“, this article picks up where it left off to cover... Read More
What’s inside: This document focuses on the similarities and differences of other commonly-used microbiological tests and LuminUltra’s 2nd Generation ATP® monitoring technology. These other testing methods include: 1st Generation... Read More
Learn the key similarities and differences between ATP tests and traditional culture-based techniques. What’s inside Considering that colony counting has been the most commonly used method of microbial enumeration... Read More
Learn about the advancements made as part of 2nd Generation ATP® technology development compared to traditional “pen”-style ATP tests What’s inside: In the process of developing 2nd Generation ATP... Read More
Many innovations are inspired by nature – LuminUltra’s technology is no different. Find out how we use the same chemical found in a small firefly to prevent big problems... Read More
The goal of any microbiological growth control program, whether it is a single target organism or a multitude of threats, requires the control of the total population. For example,... Read More
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