Real-time sewer effluent monitoring system

Conference · Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:6230699

Koopman, S; Yamauchi, R K

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has upgraded its early sewer monitoring system from the 1970's. LLNL must insure that its waste water is of a consistent and acceptable nature for the City of Livermore's community sewer system. The Sewer Monitor UpGrade system (SMUG) is now monitoring the Lab's sewer effluent. SMUG monitors the effluent for pH, flow rate, metals, and alpha, beta and gamma emitting isotopes. It turns on the appropriate alarms if present alarm levels are exceeded. The hardware consists of DEC Micro VAX II/GPX that has been repackaged by Nuclear Data Company as the Genie 9900 Data Acquisition and Display System. The gamma detector, three XRFAs, pH meter, and flow rate meter are commercially available. The metals sample cells are custom built at the Lab. The operating system is the VMS version 5.4. The application software is written in DEC's Fortran-77 and MACRO, and Nuclear Data software library. 3 refs., 3 figs.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/DP
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 6230699
• Report Number(s): UCRL-JC-103985; CONF-901271-1; ON: DE91006685
• Resource Relation: Conference: Digital Equipment Computer Users Society (DECUS) fall symposium, Las Vegas, NV (USA), 10-14 Dec 1990
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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