As part of AwwaRF Project 3117, "Development of a UV Disinfection KnowledgeBase", the first of eight UV facility site visits was conducted at Poughkeepsie's water treatmentfacility in Poughkeepsie, NY during December 11-15, 2006.The objectives for the one-week visit, as defined in the AwwaRF project scope of work,included:evaluate on-line UVT monitor function and comparison with bench-top HachDR4000 UV spectrophotometer;evaluate sensor-to-sensor variability of duty and reference UV sensors;evaluate on-site laboratory UV spectrophotometers with NIST traceable wavelengthstandards and a recently calibrated HACH DR4000;evaluate lamp aging, quartz sleeve fouling and sensor fouling;evaluate power consumption as a function of ballast power setting;characterize S/So relation as a function of ballast power setting and UVT using aclean reactor with new lamps and quartz sleeves;identify new and used lamps and quartz sleeves for evaluation by Alexander Cabaj; and,evaluate mercury release issues.Issues of particular interest to plant operations staff includeddifficulty with "wet" sensors in performing reference/duty sensor checks. Eachreactor requires draining before sensors can be switched. Plant staff suspects thatthe length of time required to drain and fill reactors may be affecting the accuracyof the reference and duty sensor comparisons due to drift in UVT and lampoperating temperature. Due to the length of time required to make reference sensorchecks, it is only possible to use one reference sensor for each duty sensor position.Another issue of particular interest to plant operations staff was that recent reporting requirements stipulate that the measurement agreement betweenthe on-line and laboratory UVT monitors should be within two percent. This is notalways possible and staff is concerned about being out of compliance with thisrequirement. One week prior to the site visit, all test equipment necessary to conduct on-site testingwas shipped to Poughkeepsie, NY. The test equipment included:computer based instrumentation package including a digital oscilloscope tomeasure UV sensor characteristics;reference UV sensor and dry sensor port retrofit;portable UV optics test bench used to measure quartz sleeve fouling; reference radiometer used with the optics test bench;five gallons of LSA for UVT adjustment;chemical feed pump to feed LSA into the reactor flow; and, Fluke Model 434 three-phase power quality analyzer. Includes tables, figures.
