Chemical Analysis

The ALS Water Resources Group offers a full range of physical, inorganic and organic testing covering

  • Environmental contaminants
  • Water quality parameters
  • Major anions and cations
  • Heavy and trace metals
  • Trace organics
  • Nutrients

Physical:

  • Conductivity
  • Electrical Conductivity (EC)
  • Hardness
  • pH
  • Salinity
  • Solids (TDS, TSS, Volatile, Organic etc.)
  • Turbidity.

Inorganic parameters:

  • Acidity
  • Alkalinity
  • Anions (Br, Cl, F, NO2, NO3, CO3, HCO3, SO4, PO4,)
  • BOD
  • COD
  • Cyanides
  • Dissolved oxygen
  • TOC
  • Heavy and trace metals (over 45 different metals determined)
  • Nutrients (nitrogen, reactive silica and phosphorus compounds)
  • Sodium adsorption ratio (SAR)
  • Sulphur compounds

Organic parameters:

  • Acrylates
  • Alcohols
  • Disinfection byproducts
  • Chlorinated hydrocarbons
  • Glyphosate
  • Halo Acetic Acids
  • Herbicides
  • MTBE
  • Pesticies
  • Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)
  • Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH)
  • Petroleum Hydrocarbons
  • Phenols
  • Trihalomethanes

See Specialist Services for Trace Level


Page updated on: Monday, November 01, 2010