Conductivity Test Equipment

Electrical Conductivity (EC) meters measure the capacity of ions in an aqueous solution to carry electrical current. As the ranges in aqueous solutions are usually small, the basic units of measurements are milliSiemens/cm (mS/cm) and microSiemens/cm (µS/cm).

Conductivity is used widely to determine the level of impurities in water supplies for domestic consumption as well as industrial use. Industries that employ this method include the chemical, semi-conductor, power generation, hospitals, textile, iron and steel, food and beverage, mining,
electroplating, pulp and paper, petroleum and marine industries.

Specific applications include chemical streams, demineraliser output, reverse osmosis, stream boilers, condensate return, waste streams, boiler blowdown, cooling towers, desalinisation, laboratory analysis, fruit peeling and salinity level detection in oceanography.

Some applications require the measurement of Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) in mg/L, parts per million (ppm) or parts per thousand (ppt). The TDS concentration can be obtained by multiplying the conductivity value with a factor which is empirically determined. The total TDS is a mass estimate and is dependent on the mix of chemical species as well as the concentration while Conductivity is only dependent on the concentration of chemical species.

Prospectors Earth Sciences offers a wide range of conductivity meters for these various applications

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